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EXISTENCE   LIFE   FORM

CO-OPERATIVE

YOUR HOST

MARK AUBREY HENNE

 

INVITES YOU TO

HAVE FUN AND MAKE MONEY

SEE YOU AT

 

ELF CO-OPERATIVE

190-0011

立川市

高松町  3-26-16

 

ELF CO-OPERATIVE

3-26-16 Takamatsu cho

Tachikawa, Tokyo

Japan 190-0011

 

Mark Aubrey Henne

 
 

ELF CO-OPERATIVE  

Is eight minutes walking from Tachikawa Station’s, North Exit.

 

Walk North, escalator down in front of Bic Camera.

First signal, is just a crossing light, continue north.

Second signal, continue north.

Third signal, 5-street intersection, continue north.

Fourth signal, red sign REX HOTEL

says CINEMA ST over-head,

Turn right on CINEMA ST, walk 150 paces.

 

First street to the left

you will see

ELF CO-OPERATIVE  

with a big Green X on the front and a Blue tile roof.

Shoes come off at the door and the air is smoke free.

Here are two maps,

maps are also provided as attachments at the bottom of this web page.

Please note Mac Donald's has changed to a beauty salon
 
 

Once inside

 

The tall table

 

Two short tables. For the more kicked back

Drinking, writing, webbing  

"Cook & Clean Your Own" Kitchen

 

Massage Chair is headed upstairs soon

 

New table will replace the Massage Chair

 

Swing

 

To music, of course

 

Cat's nest. LADIES ONLY! 

 

The Yellow ZZZZZZ Zone

 

Massage & Movie Ballcony

 

The Glass Step

 The Glass Step

Google ELF at

elfcoop.notlong.com

Quick map to ELF

 
Email me at
 

Forex can be worked without a loss on the P/O of the trade. The carry charge or profit can not be stopped and thus can cause a loss over time.

Therefore buys and sells must be taken as far from the norm as possible. Buy in charts and safety matrix are available at

ELF CO-OPERATIVE

 

Real Estate

Property is the primary drag on your personal profitability.

Even as an owner the government looks at you as their prime source of income.

       If you do not need it,        

do not own it.

If you must own property then make the best use of your land as possible.

In Japan where land is so scarce we have learned, through necessity, to make the best use of 3D space.

You can too.

Be sure to visit our

Sitemap

AT THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THIS PAGE 

 

 ELF Co-operative has

1700  Movies

for Member's to

kick-back and watch at

ELF Co-operative 

 

Bring your lunch and drinks and plan to spend the day.  

Movie Makers

Many have asked "What kind of Movies do you make?"
I can only offer what I have.
I am a retired Engineer from California.
One thing I have always wanted, is to make the ELF Co-operative movie.

Therefore
I bought the Camera.
Obtained the Programs to edit Music and Movies
Built this Club/Studio
Brought crazy props with me from California
Located Costumes

Now I need the young minds and those young at heart to put it all together.
All positions are open. Producers, Directors, Actors, Camera crew, all the way to dish washers.
Figure this as fun-work
Participants will share in any money that is made
Location is
ELF Co-operative,
take a look at
www.elfcoop.notlong.com

My movie Schedule is
Friday
Saturday afternoon
Sunday
Monday
Interested in taking yourself to the next level with your own movie?
Or to join together with others to make a movie?
ELF Co-operative

can be your start


Mark Henne
Owner
ELF Co-operative

ELF Co-operative

Mark Aubrey Henne

Aubrey in anchient Scottish means "a chief of the ELFs"

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ELF

Co-operative:

 

Shall benevolently encourage what interns and employees choose to do.

 

Shall keep overhead to a minimum.

ELF

Co-operative

over-head shall be kept to a minimum so you, your colleagues and associates can advance as fast as you can with a minimum of wasteful meetings and management.

 

ELF

Co-operative space, time and money are limited. The most productive members shall be given priority use of 

ELF

Co-operative.

 

KEY ELF:

A Key ELF is a Member of 

ELF

Co-operative

that has earned the proprietor's trust with access to 

ELF

Co-operative property.

  

ELF

Co-operative 

MEMBERS:

Pay the membership fees only when 

ELF

Co-operative

is being used.

If you are not using it why pay for it?

 

Pay only whichever is LESS

 

500 yen for the first hour.

1000 yen maximum in a calendar day.

10,000 yen maximum in a calendar month.

100,000 yen maximum in a calendar year.

If you prefer you can do chores rather than pay money.

 

Members interact as they see fit.

 

Cooperation will be achieved or refused on a personal level.

 

Progress and advancement are a personal choice.

 

Think ahead, it is your time.

 

Work as hard or easy, fast or slow as you like.

 

Change what you are doing or concentrate on one thing.

 

You can only pay yourself, if and when You have

made-money.

 

Your money is your money. If you need it for living, it must be taken out of

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE through the Government’s (Japan in this case) legal accounting methods and taxed and required insurances paid accordingly. If you keep your money under the

ELF Co-operative, umbrella then you, and only you, get to choose how and when your money shall be used.

You can direct your money to be used by

ELF Co-operative to buy equipment, materials, supplies and services needed for your projects.

Thus your money, if accounted for correctly, can provide you with what you need without being taxed and insured as income. Proper accounting and Japanese tax law shall be followed.

 

Each person holds their own

money-made, in their own account. The percentage required to satisfy potential accounting, taxes, insurances and fees, shall be held in a joint account by

YOU &

ELF Co-operative only until legal accounting is satisfied. Any left over money after taxes is yours to use as you see fit.

 

Money that is lost or unaccounted for shall be assumed to have been used as income and legal taxes and fees shall be accounted for accordingly.

 

Group projects should be flexible; members of a project encourage each other and contract with each other. Consultation is available upon request, consultation fees are negotiable.

 

Write down your innovative ideas and have them notarized and acknowledged by others so value can be attributed to you. Copyright, Patent and indeed all laws shall be followed.

 

Rules are for fools.

Learn the difference between laws and rules. Know the laws. Keep rules to a minimum.

 

Rules are, as a rule, mostly made by lazy people, to keep from having to do their own work.

 

 

INTERNS: Interns are, the smartest,

Members of

ELF Co-operative

 

Interns are smart because, they do not receive earnings as wages, because wages are taxed and insured.

 

Interns use as much of there earnings as possible under the ELF Co-operative umbrella to avoid the tax and insurance drain.

 

Interns make and keep more money than any other legal status because their money is not taxed or insurance.

 

Interns can receive additional time at ELF

CO-OPERATIVE and the use of

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE facilities, by doing voluntary chores or by innovation and improvement in general.

 

Voluntary Chores available to perform at ELF:

1. Make an Internship Log to keep track of your Internship.

2. Make or obtain a list of legal employment requirements.

3. Make a list of what you want to do.

4. Make a list of what you are good at.

5. Make a list of chores and assign a value to each.

6. Write down and recommend innovations and improvements.

7. Make a list of chores to develop your innovation and improvement ideas into projects and assign a value to each chore.

8. Determine if a project has profit potential and then write down a project prospectus.

9. Present your prospectus to others if you desire help.

10. Develop your own, or join a project team.

 

 

EMPLOYEES:

Employees are Members of

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE who choose to have some or all of their accumulated earnings from money-made, processed as wages according to law.

 

Hours are flexible. Employees can work any where and at any time. Employee’s earnings are NOT based on time or action, only on achievement of

money-made.

 

Earnings are flexible. You may choose to take your earnings from your

money-made at any rate you choose, within the legal minimum and maximum limits and after payment of your accountant for processing your earnings.

 

Minimum limit is determined by legal requirements which include but are not limited to; minimum legal wage of 691 yen per hour, paid at least once a month unless you choose otherwise in writing, Workers Compensation, Income Tax.

 

Maximum limit is restricted only by Japanese legal requirements; what you have earned, per a time period you choose, less the withholdings, taxes and fees required by law.

 

It is recommended you start your own retirement account.

 

ADVISORS and MENTORS:

Advisors and Mentors are Members of

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE who have established themselves in their fields and wish to assist other members to reach higher goals.

 

Advisors and Mentors may participate financially in projects.

 

It shall be assumed that Advisors and Mentors are advanced in life and business and therefore Advisors and Mentors SHALL NOT take undue advantage of less advanced members. Advisors and Mentors shall make clear in written agreement with other Members if the Advisors and Mentors are expecting earnings from their participation, shall be very clear and in writing what the earnings shall be, what the limits shall be, and how they shall legally receive compensation.

 

Agreements at this level shall be contractual, in writing and shall include in all agreements that, Advisors and Mentors shall pay for

legally authorized accountants to monitor their involvement in projects.

 

All agreements shall contain a legal, hold harmless clause, which shall release ELF Co-operative, proprietor and members from all liability what so ever.

 

 

BUSINESS ASSOCIATES:

Business Associates are Members of

ELF Co-operative who have established their own legal Business Company, and can receive payments through their independent company.

 

Business Associates may participate financially in projects.

 

It shall be assumed that Business Associates are advanced in life and business and therefore Business Associates SHALL NOT take undue advantage of less advanced members. Business Associates shall make clear in written agreement with other members if the Business Associates are expecting earnings from their participation, shall be very clear and in writing what the earnings shall be and what the limits shall be.

 

Agreements at this level shall be contractual, in writing and shall include in all agreements that, Business Associates shall pay for

legally authorized accountants to monitor their involvement in projects.All agreements shall contain a legal, hold harmless clause, which shall release

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE, proprietor and members from all liability what so ever.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES:

Professional Associates are Members of

ELF

CO-OPERATIVE who have legal Professional status and can receive payments according to their professional license.

 

Professional Associates may participate financially in projects.

 

It shall be assumed that Professional Associates are advanced in life and business and therefore Professional Associates SHALL NOT take undue advantage of less advanced members. Professional Associates shall make clear in written agreement with other members if the Professional Associates are expecting earnings from their participation, shall be very clear and in writing what the earnings shall be and what the limits shall be.

 

Agreements at this level shall be contractual, in writing and shall include in all agreements that, Professional Associates shall pay for

legally authorized accountants to monitor their involvement in projects.

 

All agreements shall contain a legal, hold harmless clause, which shall release ELF

CO-OPERATIVE, proprietor and members from all liability what so ever.

 

 

ELF

Form

Life

Existence

 

BEARLY LOOKING AT LIGHT

 

 

COPY RIGHT 2010-10-10 10:10:10

BY MARK AUBREY HENNE

TO MY DAUGHTER

KRISTI MARIE HENNE

 

 

Ijji Bubba, Pojia Ginia,

Neshi & Jeshi Pahejinia,

Toota Pishnea, Togo Chishinea,

Toda Vashnia, Togo Guassnia,

Gwass, Gwass, Gwass

 

There is a test

to see if you are explaining the universe correctly.

You must be able to start any where, any when,

and still reach the same conclusions.

 

This story starts with pizza.

 

 

 

CHAPTERS

                                                                             Line   Page

1          PIZZA TO THE UNIVERSE                                 8

Halloween, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, F, PT House

Oh sing me an ode                           266

Density                                              340

P+Ions NOT Atoms                           470

Van Allen Belts                                 489

Natural Antigravity                            515

Light,                                                531

Ionic periodic table                           580

Electron capture                                592

Silk Graphene                                   609

M-Nano-Beads                                  635

BE Fuel Cells                                     635

Jewels                                               646

Oort cloud                                         687

Sol                                                     736

Such Trivialities                                 797

Dark Mater                                         848

2          GREEN WOLVERINE                                        30

Halloween, Sophomore Year

USA, CA. P. Ijji’s Apt

Tesla Motor System                           1006

Action-Reaction                                 1038

3          PEACH’S KATANA                                            35

2010

J, T, Akigawa

BEC                                                  1164

Those Who Know                             1193

Coke                                                 1232

Andesine                                           1249

4          BOYS AT PLAY                                                  43

New Year’s, Freshman Year

USA, CA, LA, Gang

 

5          TEA WAVES                                                       45

Halloween, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, Huntington Beach

Flexible Styrofoam                            1449

FX Expert Crap                                  1475

Eagle Ant Samurai                             1488

Maximum Trade Charts                     1681

6          NAMES                                                               53

Rush Party, Freshman Year

USA, CA, F, PT House 

7          OPI-BUG                                                             57

Halloween, Sophomore Year            

USA, CA, Huntington Beach

Matrix                                                  1833

KISS                                                    1861

ELF Co-operative                                1903

Norms of the Graph                            1830

Opi-Bug                                              1976

8          OLD MAN                                                           64

2004

USA, CA, O, CU

Destrroy All Old Books                       2193

9          SMILEY’S CIGAR                                              69

Halloween, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, F, PT House

No Rush                                              2253

Child Employee                                   2261

Everything Is As It Should Be             2292

Bearly Looking at Light                       2434   10        CUMULATIVE EFFECTS                        79

Warn Fall Morning, Sophomore year

USA, CA, F, PT House 

Cumulative Effect                               2579

FX here goes                                       2712

The Bet                                               2849

Poor I                                                  2911

Micro Dreamed                                  2955

Silk-Graphene                                    3031

11        BIRTH OF A SOLAR SYSTEM                          91

Spring Break, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, San Onofre

Totally Incorrect                                 3005

Antigravity                                         3081

No Thing                                 3412    3136

A Bubble                                             3199

Ayn Rand                                            3266

Newton 1&2                                       3388

God                                                     3392

Anything Everything                           3408

Universe is infinite not finite               3681

12        USA, MAH’s Pool                                             110

USA, CA, El Toro, Cook’s Corner

 

13        BARE POETRY                                       136

Spring Break, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, P, Ijji’s Apt

14        THE LAST BOOK MOVE                                 140

Mid Term Exams, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, F, North Campus

JFK RFK

Executive Orders

Prison Camps

9/11

15        FIRST LOOK                                                    154

Tulip and Daffodil Season, Sophomore Year

USA, CA, Ortega Hwy

16        DIG DIG DIG                                                    170

USA, CA, Ortega Hwy

17        GOING SOUTH                                                174

USA, CA, F, PT House          

18        FIRST NIGHT                                                   183

USA, CA, BB

19        SOUTHERN SAUSAGE                                                   190

USA, MISSISSIPPI

                        FX

20        FIRE IN THE FIRE PLACE                                              193

USA, CA, BB

21        LUAU                                                                                 198

SAMOA, Pahe House

Dad                                                            6283

22        POP                                                                                    206

USA, CA, Ortega Hwy

HHO

Gravity

23        NJP                                                                                    224

24        DEALING WITH EVIL                                                     227

25        WE SHOULD TALK                                                         242

USA, CA, CSUF

26        DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR                                        246

USA, CA, F, PT House

END? NOT EVEN CLOSE!                               267

29        CONCLUSIONS        

30        Apendix

 

ELF

Form

Life

Existence

 

BEARLY LOOKING AT LIGHT

 

COPY RIGHT 2010-10-10 10:10:10

BY MARK AUBREY HENNE

 

TO MY DAUGHTER

KRISTI MARIE HENNE

 

Ijji Bubba, Pojia Ginia,

Neshi & Jeshi Pahejinia,

Toota Pishnea, Togo Chishinea,

Toda Vashnia, Togo Guassnia,

Gwass, Gwass, Gwass

 

There is a test

to see if you are explaining the universe correctly.

You must be able to start any where, any when,

and still reach the same conclusions.

 

 

This story starts with pizza.

 

Chapter 1

PIZZA TO THE UNIVERSE

 

 

Ijji Bubba jumped up on the table; his black sheep skin hat tilted to one side and stamped his black boot for attention. Two hundred partying college students in the red barn swayed in his direction and quieted enough to get him going.

 

“Aubrey has brought two meter pizzas. Therefore party now is official.” Ijji stamped at a hand making for a slice. “Before Aubrey takes honorary first bite, as is oldest one here. I give you this to take away with you.”

 

The non pinned rowdy, who had missed getting his hand crushed, jeered this delay to the food. He got a beer poured over his head by Pojia Ginia, the biggest little sister of the house. He turned with his fist drawn back to flatten whoever had doused him. Pojia laughed at him and gave him a wet hug enveloping him in her big breasts. She kissed him on the head then let him go.

 

He was totally flustered. His hair and his Tarzan costume were soaked with beer. A beautiful girl had just, doused, hugged and kissed him and she and her fierce looking red headed friend were flanked by two of the biggest mussel men he had ever seen. That they were all smiling made them seem all the more dangerous.

 

He dropped his fist and opted for a safer course,

“Can I get you another beer?”

 

“Yes, Please.” said Pogia “I’ll save you a slice of pizza.”

 

Ijji, fleece vest open, showing a hairy chest, tight black wool shepherd’s pants with eight brass buttons holding back a bulge the girls were admiring, shouted from the table top. 

 

“Should you strike-out with opposite sex, same sex or inanimate object of your desire,,,,,,,,,,,,” he thumped his chest with the fist not holding a beer “for me, shall never be problem again.”

 

Aubrey reached down for a red and gold slice of pizza.

Ijji reached his paw toward the flash of red and green in the crowd next to Pojia.

 

Neshi and Jeshi Pahejinia the huge Samoan wrestlers, in their wide native ceremonial loin cloths, launched Ijji’s fiancée Toota Pishnea, beer in hand, right over Aubrey’s head, to Ijji’s embrace.

 

Toota had flame for hair, a fire short temper and a passion for Ijji that needed no kindling. Toota and Ijji lifted their beer mugs as one and addressed the throng.

 

“Oh sing me an ode

In a melodious mode

And sweep me quite away.

To taverns past

Where drinking vast

T’was how we spent the day”

 

Ijji came down on one knee, now level with Toota they smashed their glasses together, intertwined their elbows and drank to the drop, then kissed, holding their mugs inverted to show this love was to the max. The crowd roared approval and joined in as the lovers kissed.

 

“Oh sing us an ode

In a melodious mode

And sweep us quite away.

To taverns past

Where drinking vast

T’was how we spent the day”

 

Mugs clashed, beer splashed, and the bottoms of hundreds of glasses glittered up at the couple as everyone tried to be first to down their brew.

 

“YAAA” the shout went up as mugs slammed down on the tables. “More! More!” They shouted.

 

The couple tossed their mugs to the Samoans who caught them as if they were shot glasses. Ijji picked Toota up over his head by her waist as he stood up and looking into her green Irish eyes roared back “How could there be any more?”

 

Toota loved when he picked her up like her father used to. She arched her back pointed her toes to the ceiling, spread her arms, and did a swan dive into those gray blue eyes.

 

They had met the first moment of their first semester’s first party and that was that. All others stayed clear. Ijji’s mind was that of a poet but his fist was reputed to be that of three Polish bears.

 

Toota Pishnea! Had been Ijji’s exclamation upon meeting her and instantly it was all she would answer to. More than a foot and a half shorter than Ijji, sleek and fast as her arrows, Toota was at the university on an Irish archery scholarship. Twice at that first party, girls had vied for Ijji’s attention. Those unfortunates discovered that Toota’s stiletto heals were only slightly less sharp and equally as accurate as her arrows. It was legend that when Ijji learned she was an archer, he had at-once offered to stand apple bearer for her William Tell. She had refused, saying her aim could only be distracted by his gray blue eyes. That was now a year ago.

 

“YEAAAAAAA” the students shouted and banged their glasses on the tables, so loud that the music had no chance.

 

Ijji lowered Toota back toward the table, she snapped her legs around his waist locked her heals, grabbed his long blond locks

 

and jerked his head so hard to her kiss that she would have decapitated a lesser man. Her forest green Robin Hood outfit was silhouetted against Ijji’s white sheep skin vest. His rugged face complimented her perfect complexion.

 

Aubrey was not there; He stood holding that first slice of pizza in his hand and stared back at the pie. The girls across the table at the fraternity party were giggling, looking as sexy and inviting as elfishly possible. But it was the round slice of pepperoni as it hit the pizza box and rolled down the empty wedge toward the center that riveted Aubrey’s attention. ”Not the pizza before me, nor the slice in my hand, but that finely defined, wedge of empty universe and the escaped pepperoni, its edges touching two sides; starts me thinking.”

 

The girls faded away, the music and the giggling hushed in his ears. “The association is clear. Atoms located within areas of greater density than the volume of standard atoms are different. Atoms have volume and mass. Place an assortment of atoms in a gravitational field, supplied by a planet or a star, and the atoms will, in time, sort themselves out so that the denser atoms will tend toward the center of mass.

 

Take a pizza slice of planet earth all the way down to the center and drop in an atom. The atom will drop to a point where its outer electrons are touching the walls of the wedge. With more interference from below than from above the atom will find its balance point.”

 

The crowd had their hands over their heads chanting “Piz---za, Piz--Za, Piz-ZA”

 

Togo Chishinea was at Aubrey’s elbow and hollered in his ear “Take your bite, damn it. I’m hungry”

 

Automatically the pizza found its way to Aubrey’s mouth. He absently took a bite of the tip. As soon as his teeth touched, a wave of hungry young stags and does grabbed for red with gold covered with everything Mamma Rosa had.

 

An accounting major from Mississippi, Togo Chishinea’s black hand shoved an ice cream sugar cone into Aubrey’s free hand. “I’ll need both hands to get a slice the way these fools are going at it.” Togo and Pojia got their pieces just before two gleaming, nickel steel meteorite, Samoan scuba knives anchored the last slices to the table

 

Aubrey stared at the cone then back at the pizza slice “In three dimensions the wedge would be the shape of an ice cream cone, pepperoni traded for a ball of rum raisin.”

 

“Haagen-Dazs of course.” Toda Vashnia said in Aubrey’s other ear “Togos only bring the best.”

 

Aubrey looked back and forth at the objects in his hands. Not seeing them for what they were but as icons of the universe.

 

“Better eat the ice cream first” said Toda “Pizza lasts longer than ice cream. It’s going to be a hot summer’s night in this room. It may be Halloween but Southern California doesn’t cool off till November.” Outside the warm wind from the Baja, that had been blowing all week, played with the sparks from the fire pit.

 

The fire pit, abandoned by the partiers the moment the word Pizza was howled from inside The Barn, was being fed the empty pizza boxes as the party again flowed into the back yard.

 

Aubrey obediently started licking the ice cream and addressed Toda “If our atom did not reach the center of the planet before touching the side walls, then it would like to proceed further towards the center.”

 

Generally speaking, atomic radii vary rather regularly among elements in the same group and amoung elements in the same period. Within the same period, atomic radii decreases as the atomic number increase. The atomic radii of the 3rd period follow this trend:

Na > Mg > Al > Si > P > S > Cl

For elements of the same group, atomic radii increase as atomic number increase. Thus, atomic radii of the inert gases has the trend:

He < Ne < Ar < Kr < Rn

Radius of positive ions is smaller than that of a neutral atom, which in turn is smaller than that of a negative ion. Thus the sizes of the atoms have the following order:

S2- > Cl- > Ar > K+ > Ca2+.

These species have the same number of electrons, but their nuclei have increasing number of protons from S, Cl to Ca. Thus, the electrons are held tighter as we go from S2- to Cl- to Ca2+, making them smaller.

Apply the same reasoning to figure out trends for elements in the periodic table.”

Aubrey put his slice of pizza back on the table between the last two slices that the Samoans had reserved with their knives.

 

“Let us bury our atom where it is and fill in the space between the center of earth and our atom with the same material that was there, before we dropped our atom. Our atom has the same competitive advantages and disadvantages as other atoms around it. If our atom is less dense then the atom above, then they will exchange places, the denser atom will shift toward the center of the earth.”

 

Toda “I haven’t the faintest idea what you’re babbling about”, she was Toota’s roommate and best friend for the full five day’s before Toota met Ijji. Italian, an artist and jealous of Ijji for Toota’s attention Toda was smart enough to know not to challenge the space between them, if there ever was any. Two months Toda had listened to Toota and Ijji on Toota’s bed out doing each other late into the morning. Toda had not realized her feelings were so acute until her sculpture professor wrote on her first evaluation that she had never seen so much aggression in a student’s art. After reading that, Toda had taken three freshmen back to her dorm room and made seniors out of them.

 

Toda had refused to sleep with any of them ever again but several instructors noticed that those three boys bowed to Toda whenever she passed by. Not an insolent or mischievous nod but a true bow of respect.

 

Lately Toda had her eye on Togo Chishinea; he was a man going places. His roommate Togo Guassnia was a cutie too. “Humm.”

 

Aubrey “It seems that the surface atom we dropped in, is much to light and fluffy to compete at this depth and is getting nudged upward. Let us abandon our initial atom and ride a denser atom on down squeezing past and replacing other less dense atoms until we reach a layer of material of the same density as the new atom we are now riding.”

 

Togo Guassnia, the engineer of the group, ambled over. Multi disciplined, he avoided computers saying they were to slow, too restrictive, to understand the mechanical, electrical and chemical properties of the materials he designed in his mind.

 

“It is very active here” said Aubrey staring at but not really seeing Toda. “The outer electrons of the atoms are getting in each other’s way, changing direction at high speed as they repel each other negative charge to negative charge. The pressure here is so great

that the nicely shaped shells the electrons would normally move in at the surface of earth are deformed. The shells have more of a pear shape with the thick part toward the surface of earth and the narrower stem part pointing down. The nucleus is no longer at the center of the atom either. It is shifted toward the downward side, leaving the electrons a slightly less firm grip on their atom when they are at the top of their orbit.”

 

Surfing was how Togo Guassnia cooled his head. His roomy, Togo Chishinea, said Togo Guassnia never set an alarm clock, but if he had a glazed look in his eyes at dinner, then early mornings when the surf was doubled by the moon, Togo Guassnia’s long blond hair would be riding high somewhere on California’s Pacific waves..

 

Ijji had named them all, Polish distortions of their real names. Except Togo and Togo, Polish humor had taken its toll there naming such physical opposites with the same name.

 

Aubrey “Changing energy levels is popular amongst electrons. Atoms collect up bits and pieces of light and other sub nuclear debris, when the electrons reach their personal limit they release their collection of light particles and fluff  in a burst which we refer to as their photon line spectrum signature. But increasing energy levels means increasing the over all size of your atom, thus lessening the atomic density and floating upwards until the outer electrons drop down an energy level and atomic density increases.

 

I see some of the atoms are cheating, shedding outer shell electrons and becoming positively charged p+ions. Sneaky little devils they should go to hell and in fact, there they go, sinking down to the next level, lower and denser. Let us give this atom a kick, drop a few electrons, and follow the p+ions on down.”

 

“Aubrey is useless at parties when he starts thinking.” said Black Togo Chishinea to White Togo Guassnia. White Togo was blond,

slightly taller, standing up, and more tan than Black Togo. Black Togo was taller and heavier built, lying down than White Togo. Thus the humor of the Pole who had seen them showering in the gym. Toota was always teasing that they should go to a nude beach to even out their tans.

 

Aubrey “If asked, those electrons we kicked free would say that they want to stay close to home, but doing so they infringe upon the neighbors property rights causing disputes of negative ionism so the electrons start sifting to the surface.

 

For the more energetic free electrons with a zest for travel there are the Van Allen Belts. Streams of charged particles that make the circuit from poll to poll pushed along by the right hand hitch hiking rule of thumb. When the electrons come back around, they may look for their old home atom, turned positive ion, but it is now far out of reach, snuggled deep amongst the positive ions vying to be the atom at the center of the Earth. Not a life’s ambition of most Earth Life Forms, but working for a living was getting boring, so tag along and let’s have some fun.”

 

Aubrey thought in conversation and visualized in four or more dimensions. The latter had been a source of amazement to his construction business colleagues, the former a confusing point of annoyance to long term girl friends. He would be in the midst of a conversation, go quiet, then continue talking further along into a discussion as if you had been an active participant in his thoughts during the silence.

 

The topic of density as the answer to why there is gravity had been with Aubrey for decades. He had answered the question of what gravity is and why it is, to his own satisfaction back in 2006 shortly after he retired the first time in 2003. But he kept asking questions from different angles and perspectives to check and recheck. So far the conclusions he had reached were the same and so he had become more and more, satisfied that he was right. It took until January first 2011 for him to break through the old-taught-thoughts and establish in his mind that there are cases of natural antigravity.. And once you recognized natural antigravity between stars, planets and moons, it was only a small step to artificially duplicate the effect and fly.

 

“I wonder where he is this time.” White-Tea was looking down at Aubrey who had slumped into a couch not even noticing a girl dry riding her new boy friend next to him.

 

“Here take my room” White-Tea said to the girl tossing her a key and pointing to the first door down the hallway “I need to wash the sheets this month anyway.”

 

“His is the bed on the right” Black-Tea called after the fleeing couple, she in the lead.

 

Black-Tea “I broke in once. He lectured me for three hours on his theory that light is a small, fast particles and that due to their origin could have different speeds depending upon where it was they were recently from. In argument I started quoting my freshman physics”

 

“Bad move” said White-Tea

 

“Damned right, cost me another half hour and I only got away then because Marie came over and I had a class to get to.” said Black-Tea

 

White-Tea “I am going to have to capture him some morning, drag his ass down to the beach and find out what he knows, my books are leaving me dry”

 

Black-Tea “I recommend spring break, it will take that long.”

 

White-Tea “Excellent idea, I don’t think he goes home, someplace in the East he once told me.”

 

Black-Tea “Bring a recorder, he never thinks the same thing twice, he is hard to follow when you’re sober and impossible on even one beer.”

 

Togo Guassnia and Togo Chishinea called each other White-Tea and Black-Tea whenever they thought it would invoke trouble with anyone around them. Racial arguments with strangers were the roommates’ favorite party sport.

 

Aubrey was oblivious of the excited couple, their quick departure, or that he had finished his cone and was again nibbling on the pizza. “The drive from all directions to be the atom at the center of planet earth has caused a traffic jam. No one atom, excuse me p-ion, is making much headway at this point. All the densest ions with the greatest number of protons and neutrons and the least number of electrons are already in residence and have been for thousands of years.

They may be old to us but they are not boring. Once in a while one p-ion decompresses enough that it goes into a fit and fissions into two or more smaller p+ions which are no longer dense enough to stay here and start to drift upward collecting a few nearby electrons which further decreases their density making the resultant smaller p-ions head toward the surface even faster. At the same time the p+ions that released the electrons increase in density and head further down toward the center of the planet.

There are p+ions here several times denser than lead, gold or uranium. These dense elements are not even listed on the periodic table of elements or even the nucleonic table of elements that shows the cases where there are more or less rather than the usual equil number of nutrons to protons than the because at earth’s surface density they would have a half life so brief that they would have changed into more mundane atoms long before anyone knew they were around. An expanded Ionic Nucleonic Periodic Table is needed to include all the p+ions located below the present chart.

 

These fat p+ions scoff at our astonishment of their size and age. They say we should have seen their great, great grand parents from the old place. “Where is that?” We ask. They are not sure, it was a long time ago but the ions at the center of the larger planets might know.”

 

There was a flash. “What was that?” we ask.

 

“Just an inner electron getting together with a proton to make a nutron. We call it electron capture just a reverse decompression technique, gives off a neutrino at the same time. They do that a lot down here, increases the density you know, the resultant p+ion is the next higher element if you want to look up names.”

 

Aubrey got up, and turned away from the Togos. They watched as he walked out into the back yard. The bond fire was roaring, throwing up sparks into the dark starry night. The fire pit was a huge two meter diameter section of storm drain pipe stolen from a construction site a decades ago by pledges, three of which were now lawyers and one was about to become a federal circuit court judge. The yard was filled with dancing and talking youth in costume. Dracula was popular as always, so were black fish net outfits that covered or used to cover their intended points of interest. Togas, the cheap man’s costume, were well represented. The girls in togas didn’t settle for cotton.

 

The new silk-graphene materials in reds, greens and blues was their choice. Amazing stuff, within a year after graphene had been discovered, silk worms were harnessed and induced to make their silk, as the silk thread came out of the silkworm’s body, electrically excited gaseous graphite in a slight vacuum attached to the sticky thread, self aligning and forming a grapheme tube around the silk thread one atom thick. Silk-graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice wrapped around perfect silk thread. Sheer, highly flexable almost impossible to rip, stronger than steel, You needed a tuned laser to cut it. Scientists and engineers had clamored for the first pieces of silk-graphene to experiment with for its electrical conducting properties and its super strength. They started building circuits on the surface of the threads and would have soon had a linear computer, but when the fashion world saw the first silk-grapheme cloth with its changing colors and smoother than silk touch, they went wild. The price went astronomical for the first four years, far beyond what the scientists’ grants could pay for. Silk worms suddenly became worth thirty times their weight in gold. Mulberry trees were fought over and illegally smuggled world wide, Governments told their customs agents to look the other way but keep track of who had the trees and the worms. Laboratories that used to make microchips were transformed into nurseries of big fat green caterpillars.

 

When a bright girl from Japan fashioned a double holed M-nano-bead of Bloom Energy’s fuel cell technology and managed to thread the bead onto the silk-graphene the almost invisible cloth became self heating. The bead converted the skin oils from the wearer’s body and the oxygen in the air to make electricity that dispersed itself through the graphene in a gentle heating. The bead itself also made heat during the chemical reaction from hydrocarbon and oxygen to water and carbon dioxide. The water escaped into the air accentuating perfumes, then she went above and beyond by doping the nano beads with crystallized aluminum and just a few atoms of magnetized nubidium, making ruby, sapphire and emerald jewels that winked and softly shone in the most incredible ways.

 

Aubrey’s gaze followed hot sparks up to the red planet.

“It is only a skip and a jump to Mars then over the asteroid belt to Jupiter the big boy of the planets in our solar system.

At the center of Jupiter we get the same answer. Big ions, old ions but still, they are the half life greatest grand children of much older larger ions who have split and reduced in size and density several times since becoming part of a planet. Yes there has been growth of the planet from clean up collection work of all the particles in Jupiter’s path but all of the material that makes up the planets is similar The materials at the surface, be they solid, liquid or gas are there on the expanded periodic table. The inner part of the planets is where we find fat ions and they too fit nicely on the Ion Periodic Table if we add a few dozen lines. Jupiter is just shy of being a star, just not quite enough mass. Uranus and Neptune seem to have lost their umph, there are more atoms and less Ions in their cores, the nutrons have mostly decompressed to protons and electrons. There is less of a gravitational pull as we skip over the surface. There are deep cracks in their thick skin surface. There is very little liquid mantel left and the core is so much smaller. They seem sad, like they know their time is short. “Just a few million more years, they sigh”. Pluto is not a planet just the heart of what used to be one. All are atoms here, not an p+ion to be found. The atoms are still decompressing but there is no hurry, now it is a long slow retired time as they follow their predecessors to becoming an Oort cloud of smaller and smaller pieces, smaller and smaller atoms. More hydrogen and less of everything else. But even so, being hydrogen is not so bad, The faint gravitational whisper of all that is behind them starts to call them back to the center.

 

Time to reverse course, triple jump back past earth, do a two step running swan dive, strait into the sun.”

 

Toota and Ijji were still locked in their embrace. Cheers had changed to cat calls then to taunts and pant leg pulling, “Get off the table and get a room.” Toda was getting down right horny watching them. She saw Black-Tea and White-Tea standing behind the couch near the big screen TV. She started fantasizing of taking the two Togos to bed with her. They had the biggest bedroom in the fraternity. Their mattresses could be pulled onto the floor so no one would be hurt falling off the bed. “Humm”, said Toda to herself, she slipped out of her panties and pursed them. Toda knew she looked good in her new SGBJC Toga. It had taken her over a month to make it. The SGBJC, Silk-Graphene-Bloom-Jewel Cloth, was so thin and slippery that it was a devil to work with. Even with the new SGBJC adhesive, if you didn’t pay attention and get the jewels aligned the invisibility was distorted and the effect was lost. You couldn’t actually glue the silk-graphene, it was the jewels that you had to glue together smooth side to smooth side. Even the seams needed a magnifying glass to find them. The cloth shimmered then vanished second to second, she had open areas in the material that almost let you see everything, tantalizing the eyes right out of the boy’s heads as she had planned. The red of her panties were enough to give all of the material a red mist effect. With the panties off, the dance floor’s colored lights took over confusing the eye as to what was real and what was reflected. Her nipples were stiff with the touch of the night air from the door open to the backyard beyond Ijji and Toota.

 

Yelps then screeches emanated from the room of 2TOGO. The Togos stood behind one of the three couches, with their hands on the back and leaning forward. They looked at their bedroom door then at each other, nodded, saying as one “Screamer”

 

Toda walked up between them from behind, and gazed past them. “She didn’t dance enough to loosen up and stretch. That’s not sex that’s a charley horse in both thighs. She must be on top, if she clenches, that guy will have to come back later to retrieve his things.”

 

The Togos were leaning forward against the back of the couch where Aubrey had been sitting. They doubled over the back of the sofa, legs flailing, laughing uncontrollably. Toda liked what she saw and being an artist and not one to miss a creative opportunity,

reached out to both sides and grabbed a Togo below the seat, between their flailing legs and gave a squeeze with each hand,. All that separated her nails from soft sensitive skin was red-&-gold house boxer shorts. With a “Yipe” the boys tried to jump away but their toes were off the ground and they could not escape, nor had Toda any thought of letting them go.

Balancing first on one hand grip then on the other, to yelps of male trepidation, she slipped her legs over the back of the sofa and still holding her captives, crab walked them to the 2TOGOs’ bedroom door.

 

Her hands full, she kicked the door in and told the boy with the nymph riding him “Move over.” She back kicked the door shut and brought her toys together in front of her. "On your finger tips and toes" she ordered the two "I’m going to watch the show. Either of you move and I’ll have you for my popcorn.”

 

The rider was visibly nearing her climax. Her steed, arching his back, was bucking and slamming her down on top of himself, his hands on her waist, she was cupping her breasts and panting through her teeth.

 

Black-Tea tried to glance up at the action and got a ball busting squeeze. He groaned and dropped to his elbows and knees only to he yanked back up to his fingers and toes with the force of an Italian in heat. She had slipped out of her red lace and fishnet panties before attacking the Togos, Toda knew what she wanted and the use of the other couple would heighten the fun. “Hummm.”

 

Aubrey “Ah, interesting, Sol in Latin and other languages, the star at the center of our Solar System is not as we have been taught! The Sol is NOT a huge collection of hydrogen atoms experiencing such great gravitational forces that the hydrogen is combining into helium. The Sol will not, in time, use up all the hydrogen, expand into a red giant and swallow the earth.

What we find is that Sol is from the same place and the same time and is made up of the same material as the rest of the near by solar systems. Sol is made up of p+ions. Those atoms near the surface are familiar to us and appear on our old periodic table but with massive numbers of electrons, they are very highly negatively ionized and there is a thick layer of hydrogen and free electrons covering the sphere giving off the tremendous light that we live by.

 

Looking closely at the surface of Sol we see organized segmented areas that remind me of the cells of fossil coral Petoskey stones, cells of circulating material, of average size, which seem to have a central point to each. The density and gravitational forces here on Sol, keep most of the material in what may loosely be referred to as a liquid. There is no skin just mantel strait to the surface. All the elements of our periodic table are represented plus hundreds of larger positive ions that would form rows and rows beneath the rare earth elements.”

 

Toda watched the unknown girl and boy, her captives prayed, held their breath and dared not move or protest. They knew exactly where her finger nails were, and that she kept them sharp and pointed. The young couple had pulled the left mattress onto the floor and the boy had two pillows piled under his hips. The girl had her head down, teeth clenched, one breast squeezed in each hand.

 

“Just as we saw in the planets the Van Allen Belts are here on Sol but greatly exaggerated. With so many lose electrons running about trying to stay close to the p+ions; the surface ions take quite a beating. Molecules such as we know on calm cool Earth have no chance here, ion to ion bonding is immediately interrupted by billions of loose electrons. Nuclei of hydrogen, helium and other light elements further the pummeling.”

 

Toda saw that the girl should have come, but was not reaching it. She dropped the Togos and covered the distance to the girl in one stride. Toda timed it so that, as the boy breathed out, she straddled his face clenched his ears with her legs, reached up and grabbed each of the girl’s nipples and tweaked them, just as the boy bucked ferociously trying to breath. Toda held on to both of them with her legs and her finger tips. The girl threw off her own hands and tossed her head back with an ear shattering scream. The horse bucked again trying to escape both of them.

 

“At Sol’s surface, the electrons are at such high energy levels that no single electron stays with a nucleus for more than an instant. The light nuclei unprotected by shells of electrons are swirled about by the storm of free electrons.”

 

“Not yet” Toda growled, “one more will do him.”

 

He twisted his head to one side gasped a breath and exploded inside the girl. Her voice now guttural sounds, she lulled in place held by the three point grip of Toda lifting her nipples and the stiff male below her. “Ohhh” she groaned, falling forward into Toda’s arms. Toda dismounted and the girl wrapped herself around her steed. His face was sticky but they were beyond such trivialities.

 

“Loose protons, neutrons and small proton neutron ion balls acting like bullets, go racing along in the storm of high speed electrons until ion hits ion at such a speed and such an angle that something breaks. The ball may break or the target may break or both, fission! Which ever happens, the point is that the two ions that went into the collision come out of the collision as three or more separate particles, smaller more numerous particles to be swept along in the electron storms until these particles repeat the cycle and collide properly to breakup other ions. Given time, and there is plenty of time, stars produce quite a thick layer of loose protons swept along in an excess of electrons which, from earth, looks like a huge mass of hydrogen. The breaking up of nuclei is

not without its consequences which children of the 1950’s remember as atomic explosions. Here on Sol the explosions may only be taking place one ion at a time but there are a tremendous number of ions.” Aubrey wandered absently back in and sat down, now alone on the couch, amongst the dancers and the kissing torch of Ijji and Toota still dynamically statued on their table in the center of it all. “But we did not come here to dwell on the surface. Let’s duck down out of the wind. The further you go into Sol, the larger the ions are, and the more positively ionized and the darker it gets.” This could have been said of the action in the room 2TOGO. But it was Aubrey, still lost in thought.

“Exotic molecules are formed by the positive ions, some temporary, some longer lasting. P+ions in bonds with other p+ions are denser and sink down in the mix. The pressure increases, the density increases, bonds between p+ions are broken and others made. Deeper we go; any electron that slips away from its ion will never see it again. Here number of protons, neutrons and positive ionization level is everything. Below us, a level where, when the few remaining electrons happen to be visiting all on the opposite sides of two neighboring ions, the two nuclei coalesce and form one larger ion. So it is true that fusion is going on but we are no where near the center yet.”

 

Toda turned back to the Togos who were watching and massaging their sore groins. “Why are you two still dressed?”  Toda snapped.

 

They raced to get their boxers off as Toda grabbed each button down shirt and with a yank tore both of them open in turn. Rocketing buttons hit the dressing mirror and the boys’ beer bottle collection with pinging sounds.

 

The door clicked closed and it was pitch dark, but everyone inside knew exactly where they were and exactly what was happening, though not necessarily with whom.

 

Aubrey “Here it is, the center of the sun. The light is very dim. Light is the motion of very small very fast particles moving in large numbers because of changes in the motion of electrons. Deep within large objects such as planets, stars and galactic cores. All the material is highly positive p+ions, there are not enough electrons to make light as we know it in the visible spectrum. Funny that the name “dark matter” first arose because the calculations said that there had to be more mass in the universe than what could be seen. But the more astronomers looked with all their fancy sneaker scopes, they still could not see anything that they could assign the excess mass to. Yet all the time they were looking up from and standing on the answer, dark mater is thousands of huge ions, deep in every planet, star, and anything larger you can think of, under tremendous pressures that squeeze all electrons to the surface of the planet or star where they mask what is going on deep inside. The small light particles are here, what seem to be high densities to the electrons, protons and neutrons, are objects still drastically far apart, from the light particles point of view and they happily play amongst the three quarks that make up each of the protons and neutrons. We need to put on our spectrum adjuster glasses and adjust our vision to a brighter part of the spectrum for this density. There that is better, now we can see by the light particles playing amongst the quarks in the protons and neutrons, looks weird, we can see “dark matter”. Still they are p+ions. Why are they smiling? “Time to go home” they say, “time to go to our place of birth.

You are close to the answer of gravity and antigravity, you are going in the right direction to learn you are going in the opposie direction to the general action. Though both are happening simultaneously.”

 

“Time for a nap I say. Yes, a nap. Anytime you find yourself drifting off the course you assigned yourself in your thinking, then take a nap and let your thoughts sort themselves out, without the distractions of your open eyes.

 

Humm, I wonder what they meant?” Aubrey knew when he started answering himself or having discussions of two or more voices in his head, then he was leaving thought and on the verge of sleep. If he slept he might loose these thoughts in a dream, he wanted to get to where he could write them down.

 

He came out of his musings, to find most of the party had moved out into the backyard where the fire pit had been fed even more eucalyptus branches and an eclectic band with five guitarists and three drummers who had taken over the stage were jamming for all they were worth.

 

Ijji and Toota were standing in front of him.

Toota was kicking his foot and saying “Good night Aubrey.”

 

“Go get lucky” said Ijji “Is a great night.”

 

Aubrey shook his head to bring up his mind and settle down his thoughts. “Where are the Togos and Toda” he asked Ijji.

 

“Toda has them in there” said Ijji pointing at the door with the broken latch. “She may be sucking the marrow out of their bones by now. The sounds we have heard.”

 

“No” said Toota “Toda hasn’t even started her rise. I’ve seen it; I know when she is grooving.”

 

“Going to join in?” asked Aubrey.

 

“Not this time” said Ijji “in a few years.”

 

“We have talked about it” said Toota “and Toda and the TOGOs will be our first when the time is right.”

 

“The freedom of youth” said Aubrey “May be the one thing that never ceases to amaze me.”

 

“Why that?” Ijji earned himself a kick from Toota.

“What?” said Ijji to Toota.

 

Toota “Don’t get him started. I need hours of you and we need time for our books tomorrow”

 

Aubrey smiled; his long winded reputation preceded him. “Each group of freshmen think themselves so sexually advanced and liberated beyond their parents’ dreams. They are advanced, but only in baby steps each year. You have to come back a dozen years at a time to see real advancements.”

 

‘How old are you?” Ijji received another shin splitter from Toota.

 

Aubrey, “Go. Get that wench home before the sun comes up and she cools off.”

 

Toota, “Wench?!”

 

Ijji snatched her out of midair as the claws raced towards Aubrey’s face.

 

“Come, Vench, I make use of you till sunrises” Ijji lightly tossed her over his shoulder and held her there with both paws to avoid the nails and bites. If he had not been wearing his thick sheep skin vest he would have been bleeding.

 

“Bye” called Aubrey across the party room. She gave him the finger. He saw a big hand come up and heard Ijji smack her on her bottom as they entered the hall way. Her snarling screams and thumping on his broad back receded but did not stop as he strode out to the parking lot.

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 2

 

 

GREEN WOLVERINE

 

Ijji pealed the green wolverine off his shoulder being sure to pin her arms and keep his groin out of range of the stilettos. Not only the heals, but also the tips, of those shoes were pointed and lethal. He knew the risk to his lips but kissed her anyway. She immediately had his lower lip in her teeth, almost tight enough to draw blood but only ran her tongue over the warm surface, before releasing and kissing him. Safe, he relaxed his grip and she wrapped herself around him like before. She started rubbing herself up and down against him. She bumped him each time she came down. God he was big, she winced.

 

“No sex while driving” he said.

 

“Want to bet?” she said.

 

“Not safe if I come at 75 on the 57-91” he said

 

“Who is giving you permission to come?” She stared into his glacier eyes with the green fields of Ireland. Ice melted and the grass had due on it.

 

He reached out for the lift handle of the H007, opened the driver’s door and had to grab the side of the Hummer with his other hand as she banged herself down on her wishes as if to break it in two. The Hummer’s back seat had been removed, the front bench seat showed signs of his wear, her tare.

He left the door open; it was the only way to get to the keys in his pocket. He pulled the leaver to push the front seat all the way back and climbed in. They had done this before and she reached for the first of his eight defending brass buttons as he slid the door down and started the dual tesla motor system.

 

She loved the look of those eight big buttons. It was the second thing she had seen after his eyes. He said zippers were useless in the Polish winter.

 

They were parked-in by the other party goers but that is what Hummers are all about. The big wheels drove right over the log that kept the smaller cars on the pavement, up the embankment to the church parking lot, also crowded with college cars; beamers and junkers, muscle cars and three pink Mercedes with black rag tops. The Gwass triplets had been at the party, how could he have missed them? He felt his fourth button give way and he concentrated on weaving through the maze of haphazardly parked cars. He had to make it past the fire station and to the freeway entrance before she reached button number eight.

 

She shouted “EIGHT” her weight came down on his accelerator leg and the Hummer’s dual motors jumped. That was the danger and the excitement of the Tesla motors. There was no lag between your foot going down and the car going forward. The dual motors in the big H007 had a hell of a kick. Had it not been for the weight of Ijji, the Bloom generator, the batteries and the capasitors under the front hood, the tork would have launched the Hummer into a wheely. Ijji gripped the wheel with both hands turned into the on-ramp curve and gritted his teeth.

 

Toota had been exciting him all night and it was another five Kilometers to their exit. The clover leaf to the 91-West almost cost them their lives but she was Irish lucky and his wide wheel base only let one wheel off the pavement. The civil engineers had designed extra traction groves in the concrete for just such maniacs.

Ijji did not make it home without coming nor did Toota. The speed bump entering Ijji’s apartment complex driveway tipped the balance, three bushes suffered great distress as the Hummer plowed them down. Ijji had been concentrating with all his might on driving and Toota had been concentrating on nothing but Ijji. The speed bump jolted Ijji up just as Toota was coming down. Both screamed with pleasure and never even heard the splash.

 

They hugged and kissed with their eyes closed for the longest time. Finally Ijji reached out and started to slide up the Hummer’s door. Cold water rushed in, Toota jumped off Ijji banging her head on the roof. They were in the pool!

 

Good thing the H007 was made to float. Ijji pushed the door closed and the two untangled themselves laughing. “I’ll climb out the window, get on the roof and jump to the side, then I can push you with the pool rescue pole to the edge” said Toota.

 

“OK” said Ijji, he rolled down the window. She slid her trim body past him out the window, turned to climb up and came nose to nose with Felix the huge orange tabby cat who thought he owned the pool and loved to swim.

 

“WAAAAA!?!” Toota jumped back in surprise letting go of the roof. To bad for Ijji her foot was just passing over his groin. Action-reaction, her foot went down, she went up, Ijji turned green.

 

Gravity: what goes up must come down and with a splash Toota did. Ijji recovered, opened the door and jumped in after Toota to make sure she was ok, forgetting he had never learned how to swim. He would have been fine, if his mouth had been closed.

 

Toota, an excellent swimmer, reached the side of the pool in three strokes. Pulling herself up, she realized Ijji was not in the Hummer, he was at the bottom of the pool. He was panicking, she dived in, swam under him, grabbed a foot and pushed him up as she kicked off the bottom. Ijji’s flailing hand touched the H007’s bumper, he grabbed on gasping for breath. Toota bobbed up out of reach and asked “You OK?"

 

“Yes, Yes, OK. I not save you. I’m sorry.” gasped Ijji.

 

“Oh is that what that was? Don’t worry you can owe me one saving.” She swam closer, hugged him from behind and kissed him, “Don’t let go,“ She giggled as she kissed his neck where she knew he was ticklish, in seconds Ijji was roaring with laughter and squirming to escape Toota’s neck kisses without letting go of the Hummer.

 

The morning breeze floated the Hummer, Ijji, Toota and Felix to the shallow end of the pool towards the buildings. Ijji touched bottom and pulled the H007 to the edge. Toota hugged him close, the morning breeze was chilly and she was starting to get cold.

 

Ijji moved around the side of the Hummer to the open door to get the keys. He handed them to Toota who was starting to shiver. “Go in and get warm” he said.

 

“Not until you are out of the pool” she replied. He lifted her up to the edge. He went around to the front of the H007 and unhooked the wench latch. Pulling on the steel cable he handed the hook to Toota.

 

“Can you hook this over that branch” he asked?

 

“Yes” she said her teeth starting to chatter. She got the wire-rope over the branch around the trunk and clicked it back upon itself.

 

Ijji flicked the wench switch, half expecting it to fail in the water. The motor kicked right in and started pulling the car to the edge. Ijji saw that the bumper was going to catch. He ducked under the floating Hummer and pushed up just enough to get the bumper and skids over the lip of the pool. He came out from under the car to find Toota back in the water. “What? He asked.

 

“You scare me!” she said angrily “I looked back and you were gone again.” He hugged her as the wench slowly dragged the Hummer out of the pool.

 

Fellix? He was still sitting on the roof of the Hummer enjoying all the action. When Toota saw Ijji back on dry land she dashed up the stairs to Ijji’s apartment, she was now officially freezing. She passed Marie coming out of the apartment across the hall for her morning run. Dripping wet Toota tried to unlock the door but she was shaking from head to foot.

 

Marie took the keys from Toota and opened Ijji’s door. “What happened?” Toota only pointed out the window and ducked into the shower clothes and all and turned on the hot water. Marie looked out the window and saw Ijji by the pool the back tires of the H007 just coming out of the water. Marie came into the bathroom as Toota was shedding her wet clothes. “What?” Marie asked. Toota told her the story between fits of girlish laughter.

 

Toota “Marie, take those big towels down to Ijji he must be freezing.”

 

Marie went back to the window “He’s got the Hummer out of the pool and is looking at the damage, Are you OK?”

 

“Yes I’m fine now that I’m warming up. Tell Ijji to come up and get warm we can deal with the damage later. Go, I know you want your run. We’ll be fine Aubrey is expecting you. Don’t lock the door those were Ijji’s keys.”

 

“I’ll give them to him.” Marie said picking up the keys and the fluffy towels. “You want the light on or off?”

 

Toota “Off, I’m going to fill this big tub with bubbles and Ijji and stay here all morning.”

 

Marie locked the door and skipped down the stairs three at a time. Ijji was standing looking at the scratches on the concrete where the Hummer had exited the pool. “Here you go Ijji” said Marie

tossing him the keys then the towels. “Ms Bubble Bath said for you to get up stairs and get warm. I’ll tell the house and they’ll come over and help clean up this mess.”

 

“Da, Thanks” said Ijji. “I am wondering what landlord will say. Is big trouble.”

 

“Don’t worry; Aubrey is good at handling negotiations like this. When he finds out what you two were up to he won’t let anything happen to you.” She pecked him on the cheek and started her run to the house. She thought about her sword in the Ueno museum back in Japan.

 

 

Chapter 3

PEACH’S KATANA

 

 

Kumayama met Aubrey at the Tokyo Mineral Show in Ikebukuro. Kumayama had come looking for Laurent, the French Doctor of Geology, to inform him that he would not be making anymore swords.

 

Kumayama’s deep friend and assistant Shoji had died of influenza last spring. He had caught the flu after an idiot of a bureaucrat, Osatou from Shinjuku, had come sneezing into their forge unannounced with some stupid question about a handle of one of his inferior swords coming loose and to whine about Kumayama’s refusal to make him, Osatou, the country’s top expert on the Shogun Era, a katana.

 

To say Kumayama thought him a fool gave the worm to much credit. Shoji had ushered the bureaucrat down the mountain through the snow with the toe of his boot.

 

Kumayama had tried but rejected three young apprentices since Shoji’s passing. ”They knew nothing of sword art” he said, but secretly he missed the crude banter of his friend Shogi, and had lost heart.

 

Aubrey saw Kumayama admiring the Brazilian Emerald Crystal in the show’s main display. Aubrey came alongside and with a slight bow asked if he would like to touch it. Kumayama looked at the Do Not Touch sign then at Aubrey. “It is yours?” Aubrey nodded.

 

Kumayama “I can feel the soul in the swords I make.” Aubrey’s ears went up “I should like to feel if this crystal has anything to say.” Aubrey lifted the spectators’ rope and stepped aside. Aubrey had let many people touch the crystal especially children but

Kumayama did something new. He put one finger on each end of the main crystal and stood there, for a long while. When he was finished he stepped back and made a bow to the stone then turned to Aubrey. “Old, Old before life lived on earth.

When you bought it, it was angry at being disturbed from its growth. See how the end pieces are separated? Some huge disturbance in the earth dislocated its lines millions of years ago causing it to stop growing as one crystal. It sat broken all that time. Then it was found and unearthed and moved. Then you bought it and started letting people touch it. Then you let children touch it and that made a difference. Their little hands were warm and full of life. The crystal became a soul stone. Now, twelve souls reside inside this stone and two each in the smaller side crystals. Did you know this?” 

 

Aubrey “No but it makes sense?”

 

This time Kumayama’s eye brows went up “How so?”

 

Those who know do not tell. Those who tell do not know. Shall we have tea some time? Said Aubrey

 

“When do you leave Japan?” asked Kumayama.

 

Aubrey “I don’t, I live near Tachikawa. And you?”

 

Kumayama “It is a long walk up the Akigawa”

 

Aubrey “You are Kumayama then?”

 

Kumayama stared at him.

 

Aubrey “Laurent sent a message to watch for you. He said I would know you.”