Felicity Finds Family
1/ Live for the Journey

From Erin's One April Morning Challenge and
Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

Can Felicity, who lost her home, family and universe, find a new home and a new family?

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"Escape!"

The only word left from my mind as my sentience reduced to an existence of pure energy. I had no senses so even if I had been propelled to reach out into the void beyond the planetary system, beyond the galaxy, beyond the universe, I would not have known. My existence was fading as entropy as salted my energy causing it to deplete more and more. In the darkness all my memories had been lost and soon life itself may come to an end. That is unless I came across something outside the laws of this universe.

As a being of pure energy, I could only describe the sensation as I had rebooted. My energy and reserves had returned to normal, and I could again sense my environment. I immediately worshiped her. I was in the presence of a Goddess.

You may speak and ask me questions, my new daughter. What is your name?

Goddess, I do not have a name. I have no memories at all. Please forgive me. Why did you call me your daughter?

"Daughter, I know not which universe you are from, but you manipulate space time and dimensions as I do which I call folding. You have other talents, but they are derived from that one. I can tell that you have been through a cataclysm in which you saved your planet and your friends. The experience was so terrible your mind hid it from you. It would be best for you to start over since there is no way for even I to return you to your universe. For a new name I can offer you one of mine. From henceforth you shall be called Felicity Archer. It's a bit early for you to manipulate your energy back into matter so I'll do that for you. I'll give you a worthy body complete with all the things one needs to live well on Earth."

Before the Goddess allowed me to peer outward to the new world outside this temple chamber which had appeared around us at the same time that the Goddess made me Human. The young woman’s face that was revealed in my reflection no longer had any connection to what I had left behind. I hoped the Goddess was right and that my part in saving the world was nor in vein. I had very literally become reborn. I wept uncontrollably with huge sobs catching my breathing as I began to come to terms with losing my universe and all of my past. A glimmer of hope dawned as I remembered something I read once.

“You are a new creation. The old has gone and the new has come."

As I considered that this new body of mine had not a stitch of clothing on it, I found myself imagining me clothed in a way that would best show off my new body. A flash of light and the image in the mirror changed and the Goddess had left to let me ponder my new condition.

I gasp as I saw myself reflected wearing a killer LBD and heels looking even more amazing than I could have ever imagined. I had a purse on my shoulder and a full set of luggage beside me.

“The Goddess has a most bountiful provision, indeed."

I had the identity of a Goddess. I hoped that I would make her proud of me. She called me her daughter. What does that even mean? I'm me and I know that the Goddess gave me the local knowledge and education that was applicable to life here in this universe. I still had no past but I had everything else so I could have a future.

“The best gift that I can give all who have loved me is to live well and love always. Somewhere out there is a new family for me. All I have to do is find them.”

I looked in my purse and found ID with my present picture which proclaimed me to be “Felicity Dawn Archer.” In the wallet I found cash and cards with my new name on them. In the suitcases, I had enough clothes and necessities to sustain me on a month-long trip.

I emerged from the space fold to Earth to find that it was still the vernal equinox. I looked a bit overdressed in the Atlanta Greyhound bus station. In the ticket line my feelings directed me further west so I purchased a ticket to Dallas. After that I checked my suitcases and I changed into the traveling outfit that I found in my carry on. Like the person in the poem, I had ‘promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.’

From that first destination, I made a 2 week trip across the United States by bus. I met many people and explored many towns. None of them spoke to me that they were home. After that first trip west, I found that I generally went north-west. Ordinarily, I would have used the experience to make new friends along the way. However I kept mostly to myself. While the outer me was completely new, the inner me was undergoing the grieving process. I had gone through an identity Death but I myself had been rescued by the Goddess. It took some time to work through all of the phases of grief. I was too focused on myself to let anyone else in even as a friend.

The last ticket I purchased was to Seattle, Washington. I finally felt at peace with what had occurred and found myself more willing to let others in. Unfortunately, the rest of the passengers who had been on the bus with me were used to giving me my space. While I was caught up with the turmoil in my life, having an empty seat beside me meant being able to stretch out and be comfortable. However now, I yearned for someone else to occupy the seat beside me for some human contact and someone with whom to have a chat. As I bid farewell to March the bus entered rural Washington State. While the calling I felt had not yet settled on a place, it promised that soon I would arrive.

Traveling by bus overnight was not the most comfortable way to sleep, but I had done so several times along my journey. As I woke, I looked out the window to see a large Craftsman Style Mansion with sign out front declaring this to be the April Morning Hotel and Bed and Breakfast, One April Morning. I was surprised at the feeling of ecstasy that overwhelmed me and shouted. THIS IS HOME. I was transfixed by the sight of it and that feeling of ecstasy was torn from my being as we turned around a corner and out of sight of it. The only thing that consoled me is that we were approaching a sign which contained the familiar Greyhound Logo. The Driver announced that we were approaching the bus station and we had a three hour layover here where we would change buses to the one that would bring us the next part of the trip into Seattle.

I was relieved when we since the further that we had traveled from April Morning, the more distress that I had felt. It was as if when I woke on the street in front of April Morning, that I had become somehow linked with it as my home. Home is such an emotional association and now all of that emotion was vested in April Morning. I was promised a home and this one was presented to me for my approval. It was one April morning that a place called to me and I discovered to my delight that it felt like home. It was ironic that the address was in fact One April Morning as well. Now it was up to me to decide if I would accept this gift of my one ideal home or settle for something else not quite up to this high standard.

As I left the bus with the other passengers, I went to the ticket window and exchanged my ticket for one which would leave the next day. I had them take my luggage off of the Bus and place it in the storage space I rented. I wasn't yet totally committed to making this my final destination but I had a day at least to consider if that was to be my new home instead of just 3 hours. With the details taken care of, I got directions to the town's small welcome center which had obviously had been the town's railway station which had been repurposed.

I enjoyed stretching my legs as I walked to the Welcome Center which was in sight and the signage adequate for a newcomer like myself to not get lost along the way. As I walked, I mused whether this would be the end of my journey. Could it be that my travels searching for where I belonged was just a detour and that my real journey could only start from home? First I had to find out if this would be home. I was not disappointed when the kind elderly lady that I spoke to gave me a brochure with a town map, The event calendar, Zvezda College in the next town over (with its world renowned Math department) and for the April Morning Bed and Breakfast. She marked where we were and drew a line on the map directing me to April morning

There was a comfortable seating group focused on the former Railway Station's fireplace. I smoothed my skirt underneath me as I took a seat on the couch. I looked at the other brochures but the one which was for April Morning drew me in with an feeling of electricity flowing from the brochure to my fingers. The description of the mansion and its surrounding grounds from the brochure I had picked up from the town's Welcome Center seemed inviting:

"The street sign pointed only one way, the little lane met the larger street but did not continue on the other side. A large Craftsman-style home occupied one corner, converted years ago into a sort of rooming-house-cum-residence-hotel-cum-bed-and-breakfast. A big squarish building with gables and porches, the one-time mansion bore its demotion to commercial property with the dignity of a bankrupt financier operating a hot dog wagon.

A woodlot sat on the other corner, a clutter of neat stacks of firewood and seemingly random piles of jumbled logs. The randomness, the owner would say, resulted from the necessary moving and turning of the piles of curing wood. A regular array would be less efficient at the task and would have to be un-stacked and re-stacked to be sure the wood cured evenly. Simply moving the pile from one place to another once a week with an ancient forklift turned all the logs over and assured that each got enough sun and air to turn into perfect firewood.

The lane did not continue past the end of the woodlot or the small row of outbuildings behind the mansion. The house, being the only important building facing the street, bore a singular number and the name of the lane as its address. One April Morning."

I felt that it was interesting to me that the excerpt from the brochure which elsewhere sang the praises of the landmark, in this one passage conveyed the same feeling of specialness that had attracted me in the first place. I also from the brochure found that Mrs. Dumfries was the proprietor of the April Morning Hotel and Bed and Breakfast. It was also pointed out that contrary to the Bed and Breakfast rooms which were booked in the normal way, I would need to meet with Mrs. Dumfries herself in person to stay in one of the more enhanced rooms. It was more like the process one would expect from an apartment complex rather than a hotel.

I called the number in the brochure and Mrs. Dumfries answered on the first ring. She told me that she was free at the moment and could see me about a room as soon as I could arrive. I got up from the couch and went over and thanked the lady for her help.

I started to follow the route she had marked out towards One April Morning. As I turned the curve which had so disappointed me before when the Hotel had vanished from my sight, A feeling of anticipation began to build as I focused my attention on my destination. As I drew closer to April Morning, my feelings elevated towards the extreme ecstasy that I felt as I had my surprise glimpse of April Morning as I woke this morning.

It took quite a bit longer walking that it would have to simply materialize in her office. I had not actively invoked my powers since my wondering across country began. In my wanderings I had cherished walking with the breeze catching my hair. April in rural Washington State was much preferred by me than spending my Days enclosed in some meeting room looking longingly at the cherry blossoms outside in Washington DC being debriefed for the millionth time by some public servant.

The feeling of pure joy that I had felt on first waking and seeing this doorstep was multiplied as I actually stood at the entrance. Mrs. Dumfries met me at the door and directed me back to a private room. It looked and felt more like a tea room than an office but that suited me fine and I felt at ease in her presence.

"Felicity, Welcome to April Morning. I'm very happy to meet you." She extended her hand in greeting which I took and shook and she motioned to a chair for me to be seated as she sat next to me at the table.

"I'm very pleased to meet you, Mrs. Dumfries. I am so glad that you were able to see me at such short notice. Thank you for allowing me to skip some of the preliminary steps to get to this point in my seeking to live here."

"Why is that exactly that you wish to live here, dear?"

She paused for a moment and continued, "You admit to just arriving in our town."

"It feels like home to me, Mrs. Dumfries and I never thought that I'd ever feel that again when..."

".. When you lost your last home in a cataclysm?"

"Yes! Do you know me? "

"I don't know you, dear, but I know of you. You do not need to fear that your secret will be revealed. You do not need to fear that this home will be taken from you. April Morning has a way of defending itself and caring for its own. You may cast out your fear and begin your new life here."

I buried my face in her shoulder as I began to weep earnestly as I remembered. As I finished she held a tissue for me to take to dry my eyes. The fear that I didn't realize that I had held onto with my wanderings had been lifted from me. Somehow I knew that April Morning could deliver everything she promised.

"Thank you so much Mrs. Dumfries. The fear is gone at last, now that I am home."

"Let me show you the rooms and we'll see which one speaks to you. Then you can enjoy all the comforts that this being your home can provide. The old has gone and the new has come."

I took that as a good omen that she spoke the same words that I had recalled, when I first saw my new face. I followed her on the tour of rooms that she conducted. Just as she said, one of the rooms spoke to me. The window seat looked out on the garden and I sat there looking out.

"Felicity, it looks like you found your room or rather the room found you. Come by this afternoon and we'll take care of the details but this room is yours now."

I smiled at Mrs. Dumfries as I realized a few things. I knew that my journey would continue in some form for myself and for others. The promise I made to myself that I would find a home was fulfilled. My faith was strengthened that I would find the family that I had promised myself as well. I would also fulfill my promise to live well and love always.

"Thank you, Mrs. Dumfries. I truly have come home."

Felicity Finds Family:
2/One Day or Day One

From Erin's One April Morning Multiverse
and The Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

As Felicity settles in, can she help Lynn turn her wishes for something better one day to begin with a new day one?

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I sat in the window seat and called downstairs and the Concierge, Miss Tarquin answered. I told her about my luggage being stored at the station and asked her if she could get someone to deliver it to April Morning. She told me that she would take care of it and that she looked forward to meeting me in person soon. She seemed like a very efficient person so I didn't think anything else about it and left the details to her.

I looked across at my refection in the oval shaped floor mirror with the ornate carved frame which was covered in a layer of gold foil. I saw a young woman in the mirror that looked vaguely familiar to me. She looked to be out of High School and should be a college Co-Ed. I pulled out my license again and looked at the birth date and the issue date. Simple math confirmed for me again that I was a few months older than 18. The amazing thing was that instead of it being 2019 like it should be, the tesseract had brought me back in time to 2013.

It was clear to me that the old is gone as Mrs. Dumfries had told me. I had to discover what was to come. I couldn't do that sulking in my room. I looked forward to my things arriving so I could busy myself unpacking everything and so I could take a shower. I brought along my purse and went back down toward Mrs. Dumfries office to conclude the paperwork and details of my living at April Morning.

I took a detour thru the B & B rooms on the way. Earlier when I had my tour finding out which room called to me, we had left out those rooms since I wished to be a resident. As I passed by the first door, which was actually room one, I heard in my mind :

~They wanted the third floor done while the new young lady was out with Mrs. Dumfries. I'm still giving Room 1 a wide birth. It's unnatural, it is!~

I saw the housekeeping cart bearing down toward me. The cart was piled so high that they didn't see little 5'4" me. I had felt uneasy about the room myself so I had given it a wide pass and so we were on a collision course. Being aware that no one was aware of my presence, I folded the space around me and placed myself safe around the corner. As the cart and the woman in a housekeeping uniform, with name tag, "Peg Roberts" came towards me. I greeted her with a smile.

"Oh sh..oot! Where in tarnation, did you come from? Young lady, I'm scared... well let's just say my next stop will be the ladies room."

"I'm so sorry Ms. Roberts. I was just looking around the rest of April Morning before meeting with Mrs. Dumfries. I'm Felicity Archer and I'm going to be renting a room on the third floor once I get the paperwork done with Mrs. Dumfries.

"I guess you can see that I'm Peg Roberts and I do a lot more around here than just housekeeping. I guess that Mrs. Dumfries expects the third floor to fill up with new tenants. I'm off to give all the rooms a special 'first day' treatment. I'm always happy to help or lend an ear even when I'm off duty where you'll find me in the staff rooms along with Miss Tarquin the concierge and Mr Tanner the Handyman. I hope you enjoy your stay, Miss Archer.

"Thank you, Ms. Roberts."

I let the relieved Ms. Roberts leave as I saw her quickly pass by to the service elevator. I had found that since my new birth, my Tessaract was always present in a small way joined with my spirit. It was my Tesseract which provided the means for me to read thoughts and not any psychic ability. I felt fortunate that my little evasion was undetected and that neither of us were hurt as a result of our first encounter. What I perceived along with her thoughts is that Peg had just that day magically became a whole woman much like John had experienced when he became Tess.

As I continued down the hall, I became aware of a thud then an elderly gentleman, who had just taken a spill and was panicked immobile on the floor of one of the rooms. Our eyes met and even though his face showed fear and frustration, my presence seemed to calm him.

"Help me please!",

"I'm coming. It's Felicity and I'll help."

"Thank the maker, Felicity. They provide me with a medical call device but I have not put it on yet. Could you help me up?

"I'll do that in a moment. Let's be sure that you moving right now is a good idea."

He didn't seem to be aware of the extent of his injuries. I comforted him by touching him on the arm and that provided the conduit for me to extend the healing powers of my Tesseract to him. I had done this a few times on my journey and could now do it in a way so that it would not be noticed while he still suffered from the shock of the fall.

"Does it feel like anything is broken?"

"It's all fine, Sweetie. I feel even better now than when I fell. I believe I can get up if you'll give me your hand to steady me. I'm Lynn Archer, but please call me Lynn, Felicity"

Instead of speaking, I offered my hand to him and helped pull him up to a standing position. He did most of the work since I had healed him of his injuries. I smiled a big smile as I realized that perhaps I had found the first of my new family. My new father or grandfather, perhaps?

"Hi Lynn, how are you feeling now? I'm an Archer too, Felicity Dawn Archer."

"I'm fine, daughter. How is my princess today?"

"Much better now that you seem to be alright. Would you like me to help you with anything else. I'm on my way to meet with Mrs. Dumfries about the paperwork on the room I'm renting on the third floor."

I poured him a glass of water from the ice water pitcher on the dresser. I handed it to him and then retrieved the signal device and placed it about his neck. He smiled and I got a good look at those eyes now that the pain was gone. It was like looking in a mirror as her eyed twinkled. I decided, not father but maybe mother? I was going to have to spend some time with her to really get to know her. Perhaps she would trust me enough to open up her heart to me but till then I would have to be careful and act out the facade with her as I had to do myself long ago.

Sweetie, I'm going to be okay and thank you for the water. I have the call button now so if I get in trouble again, I know help will be soon coming. Thank you, Princess for every thing."

"Okay, I'll go see Mrs. Dumfries. Is it okay if I come back and check on you afterward?"

"Thank you, sweetie. You can come visit me anytime since you are an Archer and all.

I smiled at her and turned and left. I walked around and completed my not so quick tour of the Bed and Breakfast rooms. Instead of making any more side trips, I went straight to Mrs. Dumfries office.

"Hello, Mrs Dumfries. May I enter?"

"Of course, Felicity. Thank you so much for helping, Mr Archer in room 2. He's embarrassed about his fall and he promised me that he'll keep the signal button on so that we can know if he needs help. Please sit with me."

"You are welcome. I'm glad that I was near when he fell so I could help. It's an interesting coincidence that we have the same last name. I plan to go back and get to know him a little better after we finish up those details that you were talking about."

I went in and took a seat with her at the table where tea and cucumber sandwiches were already set in her place and two others. I sat down at one and soon afterward the third was occupied by Miss Tarquin as her name badge stated. She set a stack of papers with the signature areas highlighted in front of me along with a pen. She was a smartly dressed woman with a high degree of style and the impression that I had that she was very efficient was certainly correct.

"I'm so glad to meet you in person, Miss Archer. If you will sign those papers where I've highlighted, that will take care of the paperwork. How will you be paying for your first month's rent?"

"By credit card, thank you."

Miss Tarquin took the card I took from my purse and entered some things on it . She swiped my card on a small square device attached to it and returned it to me. She handed me a stylus and offered me her tablet to sign the credit card receipt with the stylus. When she took it back she touched it and then a quiet whirring came from the interior of the antique oak buffet, one of a pair which graced the room. I handed her back the signed papers and she took them to the buffet where she opened it to reveal a printer / copier which had a printed copy of the receipt that I had signed in the output tray. She fed the copies in her hand into the input tray. Out came a copy and she gathered all the paperwork and placed it in a folder which she gave to me and the originals in a folder which she kept.

"Thank you so much, Miss Archer. I'll phone you when your luggage arrives. Mr. Tanner can bring it to your room for you. If you ever need my help with anything please feel free to call at anytime. day or night. Welcome to April Morning"

"Thank you for your kindness, Miss Tarquin. I feel welcome and right at home here.

"I'm glad you feel that way, Felicity. We try very hard to bring the comforts of home here for both out temporary and full time residents. Miss Tarquin, I can tell you are wishing to get those details taken care of so you may leave. I know that you want to make sure the welcome dinner this evening meets your standards and mine. Good work!"

"Thank you, ma'am"

"Felicity, our Miss Tarquin is always up moving about doing things. It's how she's most comfortable in doing her job. Once the details are taken care of, she does place business aside and is a very social person as well which you will find out at dinner tonight."

"Thank you, Mrs. Dumfries. You have quite a family here working with you. They all help me feel more at home with every passing moment. Is there anything else regarding details?"

"Just this, Felicity."

She handed me a new key that had a very ornate brass handle which was decorated in Celtic designs much like the ones that decorated the woodwork of the stairs , doors and all the trim in April Morning. I took it and smiled and added it to my key chain. I didn't know yet what the other key was since it appeared to be more decorative than functional but I felt like I would have an interesting adventure finding out.

"Thank you so much, Mrs. Dumfries. Now that I have my key, I will be off to check on Mr Archer and get better acquainted. See you at Dinner!"

She smiled at me as I got up and I smiled back. After so much heartache I finally felt free and even happy. I went to seek out 'Mother' Archer to see how I could understand just how we might fit together. Soon I was back in front of her door and called in to her.

"Hello, your daughter has returned, may I come in?"

Of course, princess. I'm glad you are here. I was thinking about getting out and enjoying this wonderful day but I didn't want to take my walk alone. Would you please join me?

How could I say no? I'd love to go with you for a walk.

She moved around like a young fifty year old when in fact she felt to be at least 90 when the healing connected them. Soon we were out the door of April Morning and out towards a grove of oak trees which had a magnificent grandmother oak which towered above the trees which surrounded it. I could not help but tease her to lighten the mood as we walked.

"You look and move pretty good for an elderly person!"

She surprised me by replying in a Yoda from Star Wars Episode VI voice and quote with a twist complete with mimicing the cackle at the end.

"When ninety years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hmmm? He he He He he Heh!"

"That is so cool that you can do that! I guess you have me there!"

Actually he didn't since when I was ninety years old, I looked like a twenty something faerie princess. But a girl has to have her secrets. I wondered if I would be as lucky when my Felicity body turned ninety so maybe he had a point. He noticed my keychain that I had still clutched in the hand opposite him as we walked side by side down the path and he touched it.

"May I see that key chain, Felicity? You have a very interesting key on it."

"Of course. Here it is."

I held it out to her and she took it. Instead of looking at the April Morning key like I thought she would, she studied the other one. I made a decision to see if she felt about herself the same way that I perceived her and the way her thoughts were revealed when we were linked.

"Do you trust me? I would like to ask you something. if it is a secret then it is safe with me."

"I trust you sweetie. Please ask me anything."

"Have you felt like a female all of your life? If so why didn't you do anything about it? And if we could wave a magic wand and make you on the outside like your inside would you want that?"

"I'm amazed that you could read me so well sweetie with the short time we've known each other. I have not felt like a woman, I've been a woman in my heart all of my life. It wasn't like it is now when I was coming up. It was something that if you didn't commit suicide, you put up a good front instead of being true to yourself. By the time I even thought it was possible, I had done the right thing according to society and had married and had children. I held on for them. My wife knew, rest her soul, and our alone time I didn’t have to pretend and she loved me always. We had a family reunion back in 2007 and one of my granddaughters just had to have a special chocolate ice cream. I left to get it at Baskin Robins at some distance from our home. The one Skud 8 missile that got thru that military aircraft that was destroyed's counter measures fell on my house. I got back and none of my family survived. I was free to transition after that but losing my whole family messed me up so much that I couldn't focus on it enough to do anything about it. Now doing thing the normal way is medically contraindicated so I can't. But now that I've met you, somehow I feel that we are family and I would gladly take the results of that wand wave to make my outsides the same of my inside, daughter.

Somehow she kept it together till that moment but she buried her head in my shoulder and cried. i held her and made soothing noises. This was such a long time coming that it wasn't difficult for me to think back to when my old world and family was taken from me. We both comforted the other in our grief. Finally we both managed to compose ourselves and we continued along the path to the Grandmother tree which had become our destination.

"Thank you for trusting me, Mother. It must have been so hard for you to live like that. And to lose your whole family in one blow must have been devastating. Would you like to continue to the tree that you were admiring or return now?"

"Let's go on. Somehow I am drawn to that tree. I guess we won't know why till we get there."

Mother looked deep in thought so I left her to them. It was fortunate since I was able to hear a faint cry telepathically ~Help me please! I've been inside this tree for so long and I have not felt the joy of spring on my face for such a very long time~

~We are on the way. What type of Faerie are you and how did you get trapped in that tree? I am only human bur I have been granted special gifts. I am Felicity, what is your name?~

~I'm Hanna and I'm a dryad and this is my tree. I used to have someone who would let me out every spring but she came one spring and the key was missing. She tried every spring since then to let me out but she couldn't find a way. One spring she stopped coming and I sensed it was because she died. Can you help?~

~Could a human survive in your tree without the door being open?~

~It's a part of the realm so a human could not survive in here~

~I can't come to you without the door being open. Perhaps we will find a way. What does the key look like?~ She told me and described the key that was on the key chain that Mother now was holding. A plan formed in my mind on what to do knowing what the effect of a dryad's appreciation might be.

~When my new mother lets you out, will you promise to show your thanks only to her. She can get my share too.~

~I promise. I won't get carried away and I will show my appreciation to you for your mother since that will please you.~

~Can you do anything to give her a woman's body to match her woman's mind?~

~When I show my appreciation, she will be so distracted that you can use your healing gift on her. I sense that you are shy about showing it so let her think that it came from me. Soon you both will be near enough to hear my voice normally and that will guide you to me.~

"Penny for your thoughts, Mother. Okay a whole dollar."

"This oaken key is just like the Dryad tree keys from myth. And I hear a faint voice ahead urging me forward to help her. Could it be that Dryads exist? I feel like running ahead to find out if we can help, Sweetie. Are you game?"

"Sure Mother!"

I joined Lynn as we ran ahead and as we neared the grandmother tree, the voice was louder and louder.

"Please let me out. Turn the key and let me out, please"

"We will Sugar. I don't see a key sticking out of the tree. Wait there is something that looks like a key hole."

"Mother try the oaken key and see if it will fit."

"I will. It fits! Woo Hoo! Let me see if it will turn. it turns and it clicked. The door is open, little one. You can come out."

The Dryad let out a shout for joy as she emerged into the April morning. As she wrapped up Mother in a big hug, I moved close enough to group hug Mother too. Hanna kissed her on the right cheek and I began to poor the healing energies into her at the same time to mold her body into the female body she should have been born with. The effects of losing ten years of age along with her body becoming female filled her with a overwhelming ecstasy.

When she reached 80 years old, Hanna planted a kiss on her other cheek and started the process of losing ten years all over again. Mother had female curves now and her outward beauty became manifest to match her inner beauty. When she reached the age of seventy. She looked like any other ordinary woman on the outside but lacked what a woman has inside her yet but I was working to make those changes happen too.

Hanna planted a second kiss on her right cheek and Lynn once again began losing another ten years. She looked lovingly towards me as she kissed Lynn since this kiss was meant for me. However two kisses from Hanna would make me a baby and they would do Lynn much better. I healed her insides to produce all the organs in the right positions that any other woman has. With the third kiss the process to become younger accelerated and she quickly became a 60 year old woman.

Hanna gave Lynn the second kiss on her other cheek. While Hanna's kiss was removing another ten years, my healing power reached into the chromosomes of each of her cells as her chromosomes itself were becoming younger. As she became genetically female. some superficial changes happened to her looks. As she held fast at fifty, the two of us were obviously mother and daughter from the traits that were possessed by both of us.

"I am Hanna and it pleases me to repay your kindness by bringing you together as Mother and daughter. The Goddess has brought you together and forged within you a bond that will survive this life to the next. Cherish each other for all of your lives."

"Hanna, your great gift in giving me back myself and giving me Felicity my wonderful daughter humbles me. Is there anything that we can do to help in the future?"

"Lynn and Felicity from Spring thru Fall I will be able outside my tree to protect both me and my tree. But from winter's start to the beginning of spring, I must sleep in my tree or else we both will perish. if you and your daughter's daughter' daughters will seal me in for the winter and guard my tree while I sleep and let me out each spring, then I will give to all of you the blessings of life that a dryad has to give. Do you promise?"

Hanna, as Lynn Archer, mother of Felicity Archer, I so promise.

Hanna as Felicity Archer, daughter of Lynn Archer, I so promise.

Lynn and Felicity, As Hanna of the Dryads, I so promise.

"Momma, for a young, beautiful woman, you look very funny in those old man's clothes." I giggled a bit when I said it and both Hanna and Lynn joined me giggling

"Lynn mother of Felicity, please step out of those clothes. We are all women here and I have a gift for you.

As Lynn began to disrobe, then Hanna slipped out of her silk magic dress and slippers. Hanna tossed each article of the old clothes Lynn took off into her tree and they disappeared. I placed the signal button in my purse to return it to Miss Tarquin. When Lynn was in her birthday suit, Hanna slipped the dress over Lynn's head and placed the slippers on each of her feet. The dress and slippers magically resized to fit Lynn perfectly. I was so proud of the way that Momma looked outside and inside!

"What will you wear, Hanna?:"

"I am dressed for the task at hand. I have many years of being fruitful and multiplying to make up for! Fare well you two and be excellent to each other."

As I wondered if she got cable inside her tree, both Mother and Daughter replied in unison, "Party On Hanna!"

We laughed as we headed back to April Morning. It felt so good to have family again. I guess that Mother was thinking along the same lines about the future, that is the immediate future.

"Felicity, I guess it is settled that April Morning is our home for good. Do you think that there is room enough in your suite for both of us."

"Momma, we can make it work. I really don't know about the whole suite. I've only been in a couple of rooms so far. We've got a lot of catching up to do so I wouldn't mind sharing a bed with you if you wouldn't mind. it will be like a slumber party every night.

"That sounds fine to me, sweetie. I guess that I've got a marathon shopping spree coming up. Except for this, I literally don't have a thing to wear?"

"I have some money saved up so we can get you anything that you need."

"No worries, pumpkin. I have most of a hundred million settlement left that the government paid out over the missile that destroyed my house. For this shopping spree, I'm going to make up for lost time and spoil my daughter and of course treat me as well.

As we entered the door, I just felt what Momma was going to do so I joined her in unison, "Guess who's coming to dinner?"

Felicity Finds Family:
3/Can I Cook or Can’t I?

From Erin's One April Morning Multiverse
And the Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

Has Felicity learned that really advanced science really is indistinguishable from magic?

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On the door step of April Morning, right after we has shouted out, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”

Momma fell toward me, and I caught her and steadied her on her feet

” All of a sudden, I don’t feel so good, Felicity. I think that I need to lay down.”

” Okay, Momma. I’ve got you. Everything will be okay.”

I reached out with my telepathy and found that evidently, we had not been heard, and no help was around or anyone to notice what I did next. I folded space about us and brought us both to my (that is our) suite on the third floor. We landed in a bedroom except it was not the one that I had claimed as mine earlier. This one was much larger and like the first was lovingly decorated to make one instantly feel at home. I led Momma to the bed whose covers had already been pulled down and made ready. Once she sat on the bed, she became a bit more steady. In fact, she really took in her surroundings and must have realized that it was an incredibly short walk getting there.

” Felicity, sweetie, might there be one or two things about yourself that you haven’t told me yet?”

” A few more than two, I’m afraid Momma. How are you doing?”

” A bit better now that I’m sitting. You can tell me about those things after we get me settled down for a nap. Could you let me borrow a nightie? It would appear that not only are we about the same size, but we are exactly the same size. Imagine that?”

” I’ll get a nightie for you, Momma. Are you going to be okay like that for me to go get it or would you like to lie down?”

” I’ll be okay, sweetie. The dizzy spell appears to have passed and even though I feel sleepy, I’ll be okay sitting on the bed for now. Please pick me out a nice one, remember it will be my first.”

” I’ll bring you a comfy one, Momma. Be back soon.”

Momma looked to be okay, so I walked out the door and over into my room. I went to my chest of drawers hoping that Miss Tarquin had gotten my luggage and had it unpacked for me. As I opened the drawers, I found that they contained my lingerie, sleep wear and sweaters. I picked a long satin soft pink night gown lined in a soft flannel. It had a collar with three buttons which allowed you to slip it over your head even with a head full of curlers. Along the sides of the buttons were embroidered a stem of roses.. Underneath the shoulders were decorative pleats which set this off as a very special night gown. I returned to Momma’s bedroom and held the nightgown up for her when I stood next to her sitting on the side of the bed.

” How does it look?”

” That one is perfect, sweetie. It’s a very special nightgown. Let’s get me in it and then you can tell me a bedtime story

I helped Momma off with her gown and shoes and slipped the nightgown over her hands and head and buttoned up her collar. She slipped beneath the covers and I took her vanity stool out and moved it to her bedside and sat down on it. I told her my whole story from the beginning.

For her part, Momma didn’t interrupt so I was thinking that she would be holding her questions for after she woke from her nap. She listened intently as I continued right up to the time of her transformation. At the end she gave me a great big smile to let me know all was well and then turned over and went to sleep.

I placed the stool back and quietly left her bedroom and closed her door so she would not be disturbed. I returned to my room and checked my cell phone for a message that had caught up to me. Evidently there isn’t cell service in magical forests.

I listened to Miss Tarquin’s message that my luggage had arrived. Since I was absent, she would send up Miss Roberts to put my things away and place the empty luggage in the coat closet by the door of my suite. She finished by wishing me a wonderful day.

I decided that besides thanking her and Miss Roberts for the wonderful service that there were a few more details to bring to her attention. I rang Miss Tarquin’s number and again she answered on the first ring.

” Hello, Miss Tarquin, this is Felicity. Thank you and Miss Roberts for the most wonderful service in getting my things here and put away. I have a few new things that I’d like your help with.”

” Hello Felicity. I’m glad that we could be of service. How may I help?”

” First, do you know of the Grandmother Grove Garden out on the edge of the woods from the mansion?”

.” Yes, I know of it. For a time, it was one of the most renowned and beautiful gardens of its kind in the whole state. Then all of a sudden it failed to come back out after a particularly harsh winter.”

” Lynn Archer and I witnessed something extraordinary happen in the garden. Everything is coming back to life out there and I expect it soon will meet or exceed the expectations that were met by it in the past before that unfortunate winter. Might it be possible to place a fence around the garden to set it apart so that no trees are harvested in that area?”

” Mrs. Dumfries had placed in the budget funds for a fence to place around the Grandmother Grove Garden and a circular bench placed around in two halves around the Grandmother Tree. When the garden was in its prime, the most colorful and prolific flora centered on the Grandmother Tree so she thought that would be a great place in the center of the garden to place benches so that one could rest and enjoy the beauty there. I’ll have Mr. Tanner make a report to her as to the current status of the garden. As much as she loves gardens, I’m certain we will act to preserve it as quickly as possible.”

The flora had begun to appear around the tree as soon as Hanna the Dryad had been released from it. With Hanna partying on, I was sure that the other life forms would grow at a greatly accelerated rate. Dr Carol Markus and her Genesis Cave Garden would seem like amateurs, once Hanna‘s work became evident in her Grandmother Grove Garden. Hanna was the one who could really cook!

”Something else extraordinary happened while Lynn and I were in the Grandmother Grove Garden. Lynn began to grow young and change gender which are both things that she desired. She is now a 50-year-old woman. Lynn wants to adopt me as her daughter, so she’ll be staying in my rooms from now on. Please check her out of the B & B room. You may donate the luggage and clothes that are in the B& B room since Lynn won’t need them anymore. I can come by to take care of any paperwork and payment required for the change in accommodations. I have Lynn’s signal pendant to return since she won’t be needing it for quite a long time now.”

” That’s wonderful news, Felicity. Congratulations on becoming a daughter to Lynn! Lynn’s prepayment that she insisted on, will cover her B&B room so I’ll check her out and credit the difference towards your suite. There will be an adjustment with the suite having 2 occupants. I’ll get the paperwork ready for you to take care of at your convenience. How is Mrs. Archer doing now? “

” She had a dizzy spell and felt really tired so she’s resting in bed now. I wondered if it might be possible for us to both get a tray sent up instead of coming down to dinner. I don’t want to leave her in case something medical comes up besides needing rest as a result of her transformation.”

” I’ll have a tray sent up for you both when Dinner is served this evening. I hope that rest will suffice for her but if not we have some excellent medical professionals in the village. Please keep the signal pendant for either you or her to wear until she feels normal. I’ll direct the receiver on that floor to listen for Lynn’s pendant’s signal. Felicity, the staff is very discreet about changes such as Lynn’s. It’s not the first time the extraordinary has happened at April Morning. I dare say that it will not be the last. There is a very good shopping service available should Lynn require it.”

” Thank you so much Miss Tarquin. As to clothes, we’ve discovered that she and I are exactly the same size. Imagine that! So we can delay the shopping till we can make it a mother / daughter bonding event when we can both enjoy it. Thank you for your thoughtfulness concerning Lynn’s pendant. Either she or I will be wearing it until her health becomes normal. I’m glad that the staff is discrete about these things. I had already decided that April Morning was an extraordinary place. I just had no idea just how extraordinary. Thank you for sending up the trays for both of us for dinner. I believe both of us will reside here for a very long time to enjoy the wonderful service. Thank you. I guess that is all for now, Miss Tarquin.”

She told me goodbye, and we both hung up the phone. I did as she suggested and put on the pendant. It was no wonder that Mother was exhausted with what she had been through. The age change was induced by magic, while her gender change was my doing using the healing properties of the Tesseract. I decided to check in with Hanna about Mother to see if there might be anything else that I could do to help her.

~Hanna, Lynn became dizzy and then very tired. Is there anything I can do to help her?~

~Felicity, all she needs is rest. The great changes to her body depleted her energy and she must replenish it with sleep and with food. She will feel normal in a few hours.~

~Thank you, Hanna! April Morning will send Mr Tanner to check the garden and report on it coming back to life. Once they know, Miss Tarquin reported that Mrs. Dumfries will want to protect it with a fence around the Grandmother Grove and a split circular seat around the Grandmother tree itself so there will be no chance of harming any of the Grandmother Grove by mistake. How is your garden growing?~

~My Garden is growing much better than the best that it ever has. I am indeed making up for lost time. It is good to hear that Mrs. Dumfries will help keep the garden safe since she is so good at looking after her own garden at April Morning. I must see to more of my garden especially now that I’ll have a visitor. Bye Felicity~

~Bye Hanna~

There was a lot I still did not know about the Tesseract even now. I had noticed that everything about the Tesseract had been much weaker in the beginning. Then the Goddess had intervened and the energy residing in the Tesseract seemed without any limit at all. That greatly enhanced ability of the Tesseract and the Goddess was what brought me back to having a physical body when the bomb blast had transmuted me to pure spirit and energy. I took it as a sign that I was still needed to help in some way and that was one purpose behind my survival.

I had never followed the flow of energy within the Tesseract to its new source. Before when the energy had been sufficient but much weaker, I knew that the source was my elemental power of ‘Heart’ I had now had a much greater chance to observe just how powerful in itself the elemental power of ‘Heart’ really existed.

When I had first watched Captain Planet, TBS’s cartoon, on TV, I felt for the boy, Ma-Ti, who had the elemental power of heart. The cartoon portrayed the other elemental forces of fire, earth, wind and water as being cool while the elemental force of heart was portrayed as lame. What was not made clear was, just like what happened to me in real life, that without Heart to tame and coordinate all those wild forces then they would never combine to form Captain Planet to save the day. Others may still not respect Ma-Ti ,the boy with Heart, on the cartoon but I sure did.

I, of course, had been using the Tesseract to keep a watch on Lynn, my mother. I followed the power and found that it came from two different sources. One source breached into another parallel dimension. I could see exactly how the barrier had been crossed by the Tesseract and I could duplicate the process to reach into other worlds of the Multiverse now. That source of power came from what Isaac Asimov described in “The Gods Themselves” as a Cosmeg Universe where the physic of the place had so weak nuclear binding force that the cosmic goo could not contract to the point where the Big Bang would happen. By opening a window to that world, our laws flowed into that world as its laws flowed into ours while the energy was drawn from there connecting with that world would allow creation to take place via the Big Bang in that universe.

The other energy flow came from an Electron universe as Asimov described it. That universe had a greater nuclear binding force than ours. When the laws mixed as energy flowed, it brought a balance so the laws remained constant at its original level in our own universe. Observing how the Tesseract pierced the Multiverse to penetrate that world confirmed what I had already learned via the Cosmeg Universe.

My intuition was telling me that there was more to being able to do that than to open up travel within the whole Multiverse. I decided that experimenting until I knew the consequences was too risky. However this was a theoretical physics problem worthy of Dr Sheldon Cooper on the Big Bang Theory. I resolved to search the Internet to see if perhaps the mathematics that had been applied to produce the Tesseract itself could help me with this new challenge.

It appeared that Hanna was right about Mother recovering in a few hours. That time had elapsed and I was noticing her stirring and stretching . I expected her to call me in to her room for that question-and-answer session concerning the bedtime story that I had told her which consisted of the truth about me.

” Felicity, I’m awake and feeling refreshed. Would you like to join me in my room?”

” Yes Mother, I’m coming. Is there anything that you would like?”

“Just you, Sweetie.

I guess it was a combination of being very attentive and a bit of a showoff. I teleported myself beside Mother's bed.

" Thanks for coming. Hi there Felicity.”

” Hi Mother. It is so good to see you looking much better now. I’ve been in touch with Miss Tarquin. She’ll close out your B&B room, donate your belongings and transfer you as being a resident in this suite. There will be some changes and added money to deal with at our convenience."

"Thanks for taking care of that. What about our friend Hanna and her garden home?"

"She’s going to send Mr. Tanner to check out the Grandmother Grove. When he reports that it's blooming again, she feels that Mrs. Dumfries will accelerate her plans to fence in the Garden and protect the Grandmother Tree with a pair of half circle benches.

"Did you tell her about my changes, Sweetie?"

"She’s tuned the receiver on this floor to hear your pendant and suggests you continue to wear it until we know you are recovered completely. She knows about you becoming my 50-year-old Mother. She’s glad for us and says the staff will be discrete. This sort of thing has happened here before and she suspects will happen again."

“Wow, sweetie, you and Miss Tarquin have been busy. How are things with Hanna and the garden now. You said that your Tessaract allows you to communicate telepathically so I hope you have been in touch.”

” Hanna’s fine, Momma and she says that the garden is the best that it’s ever been. Mr. Tanner will be very impressed. Are you comfortable with having a daughter who can do so much?”

” I’m grateful for a daughter who helped me fulfill my wish to become your mother, who used that ability to get me to bed when I was ill and used that ability to look after me while I slept. I’m also grateful to you for being the same size as me so I can borrow from your closet. In fact I’d like to borrow something now to change into after I shower. Are we expected down for dinner with the others?”

” I’ve got trays for both of us coming up for dinner. With you feeling puny, it felt like the right thing to do to postpone your coming out party till you are more yourself.”

” That’s wonderful Sweetheart. Do you also do magic tricks?” She said with a giggle.

” Funny you should say that Momma. I’ve discovered what the Goddess did to give me the strength to come back from the disaster I told you about. I’m drawing on energy sources from 2 different aspects of the Multiverse other than our own. I’ve looked at some of the math of it and matter is kept constant in all the aspects of the Multiverse like our universe. If I were to select an item in another aspect to bring here an item from our universe would also go, there to replace it.

” You are amazing Sweetheart. I never imagined you could use science to do a magic trick for real.”

"The real trick is to make it an exchange that both parties are pleased with since it is our counterparts in the other aspect who will be most affected. Let’s say that you didn’t mind if a green dress disappeared from your closet but you wanted a pink dress like you saw in a catalog. What I would have to do is to find the right aspect of the Multiverse where the you there wouldn’t mind the pink dress she has to disappear from her closet and for the green dress she had been admiring in the catalog to appear in her closet. By matching things to what they want and what you want then you don’t get surprised on what disappears in exchange for what you took.

” So you would want to be sure you would pick the correct aspect before trying this out?”

” Exactly. Even though I could take things from another aspect of the Multiverse now, I would like to wait till I can pick right before doing it and making sure that there were no other consequences that I was not aware of yet. But if I can learn to do it without making things worse here or there, it would be so cool. So would you like the pink dress or the green dress, Momma?

” The pink dress of course, Sweetie.”

I went and got the pink dress for her along with a pink bra and panty set and a pair of pink 1” heel pumps and brought them to Mother. I left her to get her bath done and get dressed afterward. I heard a knock at the door and Miss Roberts was there with our dinner trays. We had a dining table in our large kitchen and I set the trays on the table there, ready for our meal once Momma had dressed. After a while, Mother came out and sat with me at the dining table and we enjoyed our dinner together for the first time as Mother and Daughter.

We both had a full day so afterward we both went to our bedrooms. I did a lot more research over the internet concerning the problem of extracting items from another aspect of the Multiverse. While what I found was helpful, what I really would have liked to find out was first hand information from someone who had already done it. Hopefully that person would know the pitfalls and dangers of doing those manipulations.

Of course, someone like that would be thousands of miles away if they existed at all. It was clearly impossible that the teacher that I needed would be living in this hotel too. But then again, I had observed that April Morning was just the place where ‘like Alice, I try to imagine three impossible things before breakfast’.

What was that old proverb? 'When the student is ready, the teacher will come.' I would do my best to be ready. In my life I knew what happened when one was not ready. people could lose their lives like my friends from the before or Lynn's original family. I would put everything behind getting ready and in the right attitude to be the student that the teacher sent to me could teach.

Perhaps, what I needed was to become a student at college again. The last time around, I finished my degree from GA Tech as an online student, I had somehow recalled. But there was a college in the next town over. The campus was close enough that some of the college students lived here in town too. It would be too easy for me to simply repeat the same major as I did the first time. Where would be the challenge of that?

Fortunately at Zvezda College, one of the foremost mathematicians of our day, Miss Meredith Zvezda. the great granddaughter of the college's founder, Yuri Zvezda, was Mathematics Chair and taught there. I had been a psychology major at GA Tech, a Liberal Arts student at an Engineering College. This time I would be a Mathematics and Physics student at a Liberal Arts College. The odds of me finding the one place in the world where I could study what I needed to know was astronomical. But those results were typical for April Morning. So I figured that I had nothing to lose by sending out a telepathically plea

~~Teacher, I humble myself before you, being a student yearning to learn. Please come soon to teach me what you know that I need to know.~

Felicity Finds Family:
4/Project That Needs *Tweaking*

From Erin's One April Morning Multiverse
And the Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

Who will answer the telepathic shout by Felicity for a teacher?

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I was very disappointed as I settled in bed from the lack of immediate response to my message for a teacher. But I did not let that deter me from sleeping, since I had a more important mission to perform. Fate had promised me a new family and I was challenged to find them. I had found Mother but I felt there were others. As I fell asleep, I had the feeling that I was missing something pretty obvious.

I woke with a start to discover a woman’s arm draped about my waist and I felt her body pressing against mine as she spooned with me. I turned around and found it was Hanna who was in bed with me. She reached with her arms and clasp me about my neck and delivered a kiss on my cheek. I waited for the magic to take hold of me and for me to start morphing into a eight year old girl. However, as I realized that I wasn’t going to change, I found my voice.

” Hanna! What are you doing in my bed? Why did you kiss me? Why didn’t I change?”

” Felicity, you are my sister from another mother, a metaphysical one instead of the physical. You were so disappointed that your psi blast did not yield results that I had to come to your bed and comfort you, my sister. Oh, you can thank me later for absorbing that psi blast so that only I heard it. You’ve given me quite a headache, sister dear.”

” Oh Hanna, I’m so sorry for causing you such a headache. I was so frustrated that calling out into the ether was the only thing I could think of. You are implying that I should have been wary of who might have answered my call?”

” Yes, sister, you should indeed, and we will speak of those things later. I kissed you both as a sign of my love for you and to prove to you that you already use magic, that is Techno Magic."

"What is Techno Magic?"

"Techno Magic is the most basic form of Magic, where science has become so advanced that applied science seems like Magic."

"Seems like Magic?"

"Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic."

"Arthur C Clarke""

A flash of lightening filled the room prior to my saying the great author and scientist's name and a deafening clap of thunder deafened me with it's roar for a moment. The lightening lit up the exterior of the back of the mansion so that the terracotta brick walkway lined with roses was visible bright as day from the back of the hotel to the Indian Summer Folly. The small enclosed room made of windows resembled a gazebo with the covered patios on all sides. Beyond was the little lake where she wondered now what might call it home. Intuition had me focus on the Folly as day turned back into night.

"Exactly. A difference which makes no difference is no difference. You've come to the point when your mathematics and science can describe what really happens when magic is performed so you have the capability of carrying out each step based on science and math to do a magic 'trick'. See?"

"I'm beginning to understand. So where did the term "Techno mage" come from? Is it the magic that you first practiced in the beginning?"

"Actually it has no basis in fact as far as I can tell. I never practiced any magic that basic. I was able to view entertainment while I was trapped in the tree. I got it from the Babylon 5 / Crusade fiction universe. I never had to get so basic even when I was a young one. To my people, we have gifts that allow us to not have to start from scratch to do what we do. Even though I never practiced the first form of Magic does not mean that I don't understand it. It's just so basic that we skip past actually doing magic that way even when we begin. But we know how the first magic works since everything that has come after is built upon that foundation. Does that help?"

"A little. So my ability to use science and math is great enough to do things thought miracles and thus magic even though I know that there is a logical order dictated by Science and Math to make what is thought of as a miracle to happen. Since that is the same process behind what any magic user does then I'm a magic user too. So you haven't had someone who used magic at the most basic level in a very long time. Is that why you had to make up a name for what I can do with science and math?"

"Exactly. I couldn't call you by the name of any of the other groups of magic users. You are the first of your kind and deserve a new name for the group you are destined to form. I feel that its a valid term to call someone who has just discovered the science and math and has the energy to perform the first acts that have commonly been called magic. You use Technology to do real magic."

"How is that different from Dryad magic or Faerie majick or any other sort of magic?"

"Using Technology doing things step by step according to a formula is the most basic form of magic. All magic is done using the same science and math but the skills, experience, type of creature and flair makes the use of magic seem different. Faerie majick uses the same principles but they may use a different formula or skill set shortcuts and practice to make it seem like it is something different but it is really the same."

"So if my life is actually as long as it might be, in time might I discover some shortcuts and new formula?"

"With experience things can be done much quicker, shortcuts can be taken or the formula redone so that the same thing is accomplished more easily using skills that have been learned to do things more efficiently. You won't be able to duplicate casting majick like a Faerie since part of their ability to cast is a result of their faerie existence."

"So all magic has to accomplish the same purpose, but how it is done varies with the experience and skill of the user. So the different ways Magic is manifested, come from the group which performs it, and their strengths and weaknesses?"

"Exactly and since you have the power to do what it takes to perform the most basic form of magic, you are a magic null to all who practice magic in all of its forms. The origin of magic is the same even to those who have forgotten how it started. “

I guess that in that moment I decided that I had to accept what Hanna was telling me. She made it clear that what I had already been doing made me a magic user. It was all a bit overwhelming not only being able to do the things that I had only daydreamed about as a thought experiment but also what the consequences might be for doing so. Even if I got all the math right and got the exchange balanced and worked out how to deal with the different laws of physics mixing 100% right, I may still be dinged by some greater power for transgressing the law of obscurity. I guess I'd have to deal with my misgivings and act responsibly with the gift I had been given.

” Goodness, are you sure? Of course, you are since me being magic null is the proof. I’m just a mathematician who has learned a few things which I applied from manipulating things another way. What am I missing?”

” Your reasoning which you voiced to Lynn was correct. You do have the power to go and reach between elements of the Multiverse. What you must learn is to both be able to predict and account for the results of each action. Since the foundation of your magic thus far is mathematics, it is through math that you must determine how to make the right choices to perform what you wish. It will begin with trial and error and hopefully you will make wise choices in how to proceed so that the results will be bearable.”

” I guess that’s why I need a teacher. Not to actually do it. I know the mathematics of tapping into the Multiverse by observing them at work with my Cosmeg and Electron taps. I need to have someone advise me if I have fully considered an action before I take it. And also guide me so that I can see the pattern in my trial and error tries. I must discover the mathematics for choosing the correct universe to exchange with so the result can be lived with. What about the laws of physics from different universes?”

"You are correct that the laws of physics are different for each aspect of the Multiverse. When matter is exchanged with another aspect the laws of that aspect intrude on our universe and vice versa. So even if you pick the right universe so the exchange will be wanted by both sides, the unintended consequence of the laws mixing may cause something that in technical terms is called an "Ooops". Perhaps since you have the tools of the most basic abilities to do magic, you might be able to see the signs of when an exchange with another aspect of the Multiverse has occurred."

The wind picked that moment to force the shutters which had been closed around the half hexagon of windows which surrounded the window seat to fly open. Another flash of lightening illuminated the folly as though it were the source of something supernatural happening. The ionized air allowed me to feel alive and invigorated even as the small hairs on the back of my arm stood on end. The brilliant light vanished as soon as it had appeared plunging the world back into darkness. I got up and checked the windows and found that one had come open which I closed then I secured the latches on the shutters this time hoping they would stay shut. The battering of the window panes by the rain increased as though the wind was driving them straight off the lake and assaulting the side of the hotel. I had never seen such a violent storm arise so suddenly and I wondered what was behind its sudden appearance. I hoped it would not get any worse.

"This is getting more and more complicated, Hanna. I really am going to need a teacher!"

” The Universe has declared that the one formerly your teacher, is no more. You are born into a new family, which only part is physical, the greater whole is metaphysical. The task you had faith in that other one to perform, you may expect from me, and I am the teacher which you seek.”

” Hanna, I’m so sorry that I overlooked the obvious and I’m really glad for you to be my teacher and my sister from another mother. But the magic that you use, the one I detected from Room 1, and what I used from before seems so different from the science that I use now. Are they really the same?”

” You know the axiom from Arthur C Clarke. And now for the corollary, All Magic, however far removed from its origin is based in science.”

” I’m not familiar with the corollary.”

” You will discover the math behind the corollary, in your studies. It is unwise to change the language used in your magic to the one which someone else uses. To understand the more advanced topics of magic, you must have a more advanced understanding of math in order to be able to describe the more advanced topics that form the basics of conjuring magic. Simply you need to learn more advanced math than what you already know to go further successfully. And you will find that the universe has provided such a teacher to you, here”

” She’s called Meredith Zvezda, and she teaches at the college her great grandfather founded. Is Meredith the person that you spoke about?”

” Yes, she knows the math speech that you must learn to fully describe the challenge of magic. Once you have correctly asked the question, knowing the language of math will help you understand the answer.”

” So she will help me with the doing by using the math speak that I started with, and you will advise me when something is not a good idea to follow through with for starters and perhaps more if I ever learn the basics?”

” That is correct, Felicity. There is much about this journey for you which is dangerous. But it is more dangerous since you are becoming the first of your kind, a techno mage. In order to save your life, you were given the key to unlimited power. The universe owed you a debt, so she allowed the Goddess to give you the means to connect to aspects of the Multiverse in the technology which you understand. “

” But I may have discovered it myself eventually in my human existence. They only sped up the process since the danger came before I had a chance to discover it.”

” In fact you did discover it, otherwise you would not have understood the math to repeat the process. What the Goddess gave you was time outside of space-time in order to accomplish it. You have become a power unto yourself, the first of your kind of this generation. The old techno-mages became wizards which either died or transcended. I have my queen, but you have no one to impose limits upon your actions. “

” How is having freedom, bad?”

” There do exists forces you would call goddesses, which enforce a certain amount of order in the Multiverse. You would do well to escape their notice, since the result of such an encounter could be dire for you. In view of this there is a basic law which states that all magic done should be beneath the notice of any but a relative few. Do you remember what happened in the cataclysm before you came here?

” Not at all. Even if I expected a ticker tape parade, the reality must have been only a relative few in the Agency and Government leaders knew what had happened. It was to protect the public from knowing too much that the world at large could never knew what happened.

” Even if you all were not governed by a supernatural power, the powers that be would have acted to cover up your deeds so that another more powerful force should take notice and action against both you and those above you. As your teacher I shall let you know if anything is out of line but there is no limiting force to prevent you from running into the wrath of the goddesses. It is a great burden that is placed upon you both to learn and also not to transgress the limit of being noticed by many. The other reason to lay low is to escape the notice of those who have been free spirits like yourself but transgressed and were imposed slavery to pay for their deeds. Such a one might seek to use your unlimited power to break their bond and unleash a new chaos on the world.”

” Thank you for being my teacher, Hanna. I did not realize till now just how much I need the right person to help me learn until now.”

” I hope that you will be able to keep away from the other magic entities at April Morning until you know enough to keep anything from becoming noticeable. It will be you who are now a free agent which will receive the greater effect since they already have limits upon them.”

” I will Hanna, and no more shouts into the ethos for me. I’m happy being underneath notice and hope to stay that way.”

” And I need to be beneath notice, as well in this world where picture, video and the means to share them with the entire world is within the reach of so many, especially here. I believe that we should formalize our relationship as sisters, in this family. As you are finding family and The Observer has already arranged cover for that, I am able to use that cover as well. So how do you feel about sharing your bed with your sister and teacher till winter?”

” I’d love to share the bed and room with you, Sis. So, what shall we do about getting you adopted into the family?”

” I took the liberty to adding myself to the adoption that Lynn is doing toward you by producing documents to establish myself as Hanna Archer. I’ve also added a little family resemblance to my appearance.”

“So I suppose I can just whisper in your ear, like tonight, rather than draw attention using any type of telepathy?”

” That would be a good plan, Sis. I’ll need to spend the light taking care of my tree and grove. Perhaps my presence there could be explained by Lynn providing funds for me to be hired as a gardener for the Grandmother Grove. The evenings and nights I would spend mostly here with our family.

” I guess I’ll call the concierge to add you to our suite here officially. As efficient as she is, I’m guessing that she will have already anticipated this and have the arrangements ready to implement. All I’ll have to do new is to arrange for your position as gardener.”

The conversation continued through the night between us mostly focusing on my becoming familiar with the life story that she would share with others. Neither one of us really seemed to need sleep but we knew that Lynn needed her beauty sleep. Finally, she stirred so Hanna and I went in to talk with her.

“Hanna, you and Felicity look like sisters now. What’s new?”

” We decided that it would be simpler to explain Hanna’s presence here if she were part of the family. She could share my room and my bed. If it is okay with you, I’d like her to be my sister and your daughter, Momma?”

” Of course, Hanna can be my daughter! Welcome to the family, Hanna!”

The three of us wrapped up together in a group hug. It felt so good to be held by my mom and sis. It almost made up for the loss of that other lifetime. It seemed that everything would come together just as I had been promised. Still, I wondered how I could actually cope with the situation.

Job of bible fame lost everything including his family yet at the end he was restored double what he had lost. Still, I wondered if the joy of his new life could ever make up for the loss of everything that he had been subjected to. Job was tested and it seemed really lame that it was all over a kind of bet.

I wondered if I were being tested now, and would I live up to expectations? The only way I had to now express my appreciation to what those who I had lost had given me was to live this life to the fullest. In spite of what was best, that's what I intended to do. I would cry tears of joy in their place as they might have wanted me to do.

” Thank you, Lynn. It seems natural for what bond we already have to be close. I’ve also agreed to help Felicity understand the rules of magic. “

” How is this going to work?"

” I made myself Hanna Archer and slipped myself in on Felicity’s adoption papers. I guess the next step is for you all to contact Miss Tarquin and make me another resident in this suite?”

” Momma, I’d like for Hanna to have a cover to take care of her tree and garden. Could we make an endowment so that Hanna could be hired as gardener to take care of the grandmother grove?"

” Okay Felicity, go ahead and make the arrangements with Miss Tarquin. Hanna, looks like you have a job and that our family, living here, just got a little larger.”

I called Miss Tarquin right then. I was so excited to have this become a reality. I was surprised that she answered on the first ring even at that early hour. Perhaps the storm during the night had disturbed her sleep or else she might be always an early riser and up at this hour. I only paused a moment when she greeted me on the phone to get to what I had to say.

” Good Morning Mrs., Tarquin. I’d like to add another resident to our suite. My sister, Hanna Archer.”

” Of course, Miss Archer. I’ll take care of that. Is there anything else?”

” Yes, we’d like to endow a salary for a gardener to take care of the Grandmother Tree Garden to make sure that the area is properly preserved now that it is growing again. We’d also like it if Hanna Archer was the person selected for the job initially.”

” Of course, Miss Archer. And the report came back favorable so the enhancements will be installed that Mrs. Dumfries had authorized. When I get the papers drawn up, I’ll send them up for signature. Trust me to take care of all the details.”

"Thank you, Miss Tarquin, good bye”

” Thank you, Felicity for taking care of that. I'm not liking how this weather is still all stormy. I had such a shopping trip planned but the only good thing about weather like this is to sleep in."

"It seems like that entity in the basement has stirred up things with poor choices in using magic, Mom."

"What have we got living in the basement, Hanna? A weather witch?"

"Officially, I was only told about Simon in one room and Nader in the other, when I was given the tour to see which room I liked. I guess one of them might have had a girlfriend move in since then, Momma."

"Not a weather witch, Mom. Something much worse. A Djinni. This one must really like his new master since he's being careless about the side effects that he's causing. Felicity and I were discussing that mixing the laws of physics between universes can cause an "Oooops" such as what we're feeling now."

Well regardless of the cause, it's not a day that I would enjoy getting out in. It’s still early so I guess I’m going to sleep in."

” I believe that I will go back to bed as well. Coming Hanna?”

” Dawn is when my work begins! I have a project that needs a little ‘Tweaking’. Have a good day!”

As I left to crawl back into my nice warm bed, I saw Hanna, who looked beautiful and lavishly attired without a hair out of place, head towards the door to our suite. I wondered exactly what might be that project that needed "Tweaking" might be. As for me the only thing that came to mind was a djinni who was mucking up the place with "Ooopsies" and had turned our wonderful April Spring day into a stormy mess. As determined as Hanna looked leaving, I was sure glad that her purposeful gaze was not directed in my direction.

Felicity Finds Family:
5/Oopsey Daisy

From Erin's One April Morning Multiverse
And the Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

What will Felicity learn looking for signs of Magic at the April Morning Hotel and Bed and Breakfast?

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I woke from a wonderful restful sleep even though I now knew that I could call on the energy reserves of the Tesseract to refresh me without having slept. I was clearly still completely human so unlike Hanna, having the Tesseract heal me from lack of sleep would be the exception rather than the rule. Just so many exciting things had happened in such a short time that I needed to bounce them off of my new sister, Hanna.

I recalled that I had learned, or re-learned as Hanna explained, about a bit of stable magic that I had done in making the exchanges with the Cosmeg and Electron aspects of the Multiverse and the physic law bleed over into our universe being perfectly canceled out. I resolved that I might take another tour of the hotel and grounds but this time staying completely obscured by my Tesseract and viewing the world from the unique point of view which would enable me to see the results of any breaches between our universe and another aspect of the Multiverse..

First I would have to shower and get dressed . I intended to check on Mother and fix her breakfast in bed. Later we would need to decide what to do about the shopping trip that Momma had nixed last night due to the weather. This morning the weather had not maintained the steady assault on the Hotel that it did overnight. It was in that in between state where it had not made up its mind what she would do. Some places were treated to sprinkling showers while others were untouched by rain yet the sun did not peak out except for one ray which illuminated the kitchenette window of the basement rooms.

I showered without thinking much about the wonderful body that I had now inhabited. I had been fully female for years in my previous life and had spent the last month getting accustomed to the body of the young woman that I now wore. I frowned for a moment looking at my closet knowing that it was not only Momma who needed more clothes since I had been literally wearing the same things for a month, It was all good clothes which fit me well and accented my beauty that the Observer had picked out for me but it was time to give them a rest and wear something different.

I had been expecting to give Momma breakfast in bed but she had already made up the bed and clearly was up for the day. She heard me stirring in her room and called out to me.

” Come into the kitchen, Felicity. I’d love to get your take on what I’m doing in here.”

” Coming, Momma!”

I left Mother’s bedroom and came into the Kitchen. Momma was seated at the kitchen table with my laptop in front of her and beside that a cup of coffee and a glass of orange juice. There was another place set beside her with a freshly poured cup of coffee and glass of orange juice and a small plate which contained a freshly baked cinnamon roll which had come from a platter which sat in the center of the table full of cinnamon rolls. As I got closer, I noticed that Momma was browsing a clothing site and was looking at a dress from the same designer as one of the dresses that was part of my limited wardrobe.

” Felicity, please come sit with me and tell me what you think of this dress?”

” Mom, it looks delicious. How long have you been up browsing clothing?”

” For a while now and before that I made a list of the designers and sizes of things in your closet. First, I went through and ordered a duplicate of each of the things in your wardrobe for me. We know that your clothes both fit and suit me, so it makes sense to start off my wardrobe with a duplicate of yours. If we sometimes dress alike, it's okay but I know we each would like some clothes unique for ourselves. I thought that I would go through the web sites again and pick out some different things that we each could try on when they arrived and decide who’s closet they would go into.”

” Thank you, Mom. Is it that obvious that I have gotten so focused on sorting out what I can do? You do know that I want to take time out with you and do a mother daughter shopping spree.”

” All in good time. I don’t want to get out in this icky weather and I’m guessing that you are eager to look at the goings on at April Morning to see if you can learn from the magic happening around us like you did with your power sources. Do you trust me to do all the ordering, or would you like to pick out some things for yourself?”

” Of course, I trust you Momma. I think that both getting yourself a duplicate of the things that I own and also to order some other variations in the same sizes is brilliant. I will really look forward to the fashion show once the clothes arrive. I am pretty excited to seeing what I can learn. I plan to cloak myself in the tesseract to keep myself unobserved while I observe and enable me to make a hasty retreat if needed.”

” Felicity, I’ll let you get on with it then. Try not to get too close since Hanna thinks it would be a bad idea if one of those magical entities targeted you. Have fun, daughter!”

I finished my cinnamon roll and orange juice as we talked. For some reason this new body of mine really did not have a liking for coffee. A fact that I often regretted. Momma had the shopping well in hand and it appeared that she was enjoying buying things she thought that I would like. Who was I to spoil her fun? I was ready to find out about the magic that the other users of the hotel by looking for the signs that their magic left behind in the world of my Tesseract.

” Thank you Mother! Have a good day!"

I expanded my Tesseract from the pinpoint that it shrunk to when I wasn’t actively using it so that it completely engulfed me, and I vanished from my mother’s sight. Yet I was in the same room., standing where I had just gotten up and pushed my chair back to the table. Momma was still looking at me and smiling for a moment before she turned back to the computer and her shopping online. I looked around the room for any signs of magic. There were no signs from me since I had not attempted any yet. If Hanna had done any magic there, she had been able to completely close as though it did not occur.. I left walking through walls to see the various rooms on the third floor and I saw no remains of magic in any of them.

That was more than made up for in the huge number of oopsie’s that I had seen the remnants of through out the hotel. While there were patterns where you might ascribe the activities to one entity, I could not be certain since there were remnants of magic all over. I looked for patterns in the signs left behind but I could not be certain of anything. It was as if no one practicing Magic at One April Morning was concerning themselves about the consequences of the physical laws of the aspects of the Multiverse that had an exchange occur . In each case it appeared that something outside the mansion but within the grounds was automatically countering the physical law effects nullifying them by opening the opposite at the same time at the same remote location.

I knew that this was something that I would like Hanna to see and ask her if I had reached the correct conclusion about all the Oopsies. I remembered that she did not wish me to telepathically shout for her unless it was a real emergency which I was not sure this was yet. Instead I used the Tesseract which I was using as a cloaked transport to whisk me out of the mansion toward the Grandmother Grove Garden. I saw Hanna working in the garden so I retracted my Tesseract back to that pinpoint inside my spirit and appeared before her.

” Felicity, you’ve got to be careful with appearing like that. You don’t want any of the mundane to see you appear out of thin air.”

” I’m careful, Hanna. I looked out in all directions before I appeared and not one mundane was looking my way. I really need your guidance to see if I correctly interpreted these signs of magic that I found in the hotel.”

” n order for me to tell if you are interpreting correctly, I’ll have to see the signs from the same point of view that you had. Where were you when you saw the signs?”

” Different areas of the Mansion from inside my Tesseract.”

” Then I guess I’ll need to ride with you inside your Tesseract. The coast is clear you can do it now.”

When Hanna said the word ‘now’, I popped out my Tesseract of sufficient size to envelope both of us. Not wanting to waste any time, I transported us to the site where I had seen the most signs of magic. I again reaffirmed my belief that the caster had made no attempt to counter the physical law dilution caused by the exchange of material from another aspect of the Multiverse. And I saw where the effect had been countered by a complimentary exchange of material. This time I was able to look closer and find that the counter signs all occurred deep inside the earth beneath the portion of the lot used to dry out the wood in piles.

” I can’t believe it. It’s not just the Djinni, all the entities using magic at One April Morning are so careless to not even try to counter the effect of opening aspects of the Multiverse to exchange things. And it is all going off without a hitch since there is something planted in the fallow field underneath the wood piles that is countering all of the other acts of magic. All of the signs of the counter aspects opening around that area are obscuring what it is at the center of that phenomena that is causing it!”

” That’s what I thought. What could be the purpose of something keeping the Multiverse in balance at One April Morning where it is so easy to reach into another aspect of the Multiverse?”

” Either something too good for its own good or something out for no good. Speaking of something out for no good, there go Habib and Simon down the path to the Indian Summer Folly. Habib might know what’s going on. We might like to keep an eye on them. But before we do, we should go pick up Mother. If something is going to go Oopsie, it would be better if our whole family was together.”

I did as Hanna had asked and went back up within the Tesseract to where she was still shopping on my laptop in our rooms on the third floor. I caused the Tesseract to surround Momma and she vanished from the room and became aware that she was present with Hanna and I.

” What’s going on, daughters of mine?”

” Just a precaution, Momma. Hanna had a sense of foreboding about the near future, and we thought that it might be better if the Family was all together for it. Things happening outside in the real world don’t normally affect what happens within the Tesseract so we all will be safe. Instead of Hanna using her own magic, she wanted to see what I was seeing so she could help me interpret the strange goings on around here.”

” I love you too Hanna and you too, Felicity. I guess the sooner you both discover what is going on, the sooner that I can get on with my shopping. It appears that the Wi-Fi signal for the laptop doesn’t reach inside the Tesseract. “

” You may be glad that things can’t get in here before the day is out, Momma.”

” Okay, let’s go. We were following Habib and Simon out to the Indian Summer Folly behind the Mansion beside the small lake out there.”

I moved us out passing through the wall into the air above the path that led down to the Folly. I noticed yet another single sign of magic used open, The effect of the magic was that the Folly was no longer able to be observed from the Hotel since another of the thunder bumper storms from last night had appeared between the Hotel and the Folly. I moved us into position so that the storm did not shield us from viewing the Folly as we hovered above the lake within the Tesseract. I was sure that Simon could not see us and If Habib could see us he wasn’t paying us any attention.

” Hanna, we have quite a view over all of One April Morning that the storm is not covering. It seems like the storm is getting closer. And look over to the woodpiles. There is another open new sign of magic countering what Habib had opened. I wish that I knew what that Oopsie Daisy was that is planted in the wood drying field. What could be the purpose of that Oopsie Daisy?”

” Not sure but Habib is conjuring something else. He wouldn’t conjure from the Promethean aspect of the Multiverse! That’s just insane, Felicity! He’s conjured some fallen star matter!”

” What’s that Hanna?”

” In the Promethean aspect of the Multiverse, it randomly grants superpowers. It’s highly unstable and with the widely divergent physical laws of this aspect almost anything could happen.”

” And usually does, Hanna.”

” What’s that Momma?”

” Murphy was an optimist.”

” Oh! I get that, Momma. Felicity, watch out! We’re between that opening that Habib conjured and the complimentary one that just opened out at the Oopsie Daisy.! And that storm is so close to the folly now that. Oopsie!”

I could see in that moment that Simon had finally chosen to touch the Promethean fallen star matter and in the same instant lightening has struck the folly. But it seemed that reality had shattered as a number of aspects of the Multiverse manifested themselves all at the same time. However we were anchored by the interaction of the open aspects of the Multiverse interacting as they all closed at the same time. I wasn’t sure which aspect that emerged was the basis for our reality, since my attention was diverted elsewhere.

” Oh my Goddess! So that is the Oopsie Daisy!”

My attention was totally on the Oopsie Daisy which had somehow sprung out of the soil. The form of it was vaguely that of a person yet it was covered in such bright light that telling details was out of the question. So I guess this is how I define Oopsie.

"What is that, Hanna and Felicity? Is it friendly?"

Just then a blast of Tesseract enhanced energy emerged from the brightly lit figure on a collision course with us.

"Just guessing its NOT FRIENDLY!"

"Teleport, teleport NOW!"

"Oopsie Daisy!"

Felicity Finds Family:
6/My Pleasure

From Erin's One April Morning Multiverse
And the Goddess of Exxor Universe

By Sasha Zarya Nexus

Can Felicity deal with the Oopsie Daisy by herself or can she find help?

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We were safe as I teleported my tesseract not only a great distance away, but I opened a portal into another aspect of the Multiverse. We appeared at the Teen Super Friends Space Station orbiting Earth. I knew that the Goddess of Exxor and her avatar Sorceress had the power to protect my mother, Lynn. Hanna and I would return to One April Morning to face the Oopsie Daisy. We were met in their reception area by the newest Teen Super Friend, Oracle.

"Greetings, guests, I am Oracle. Do you need assistance?"

"We do Oracle. Our mother Lynn Archer needs protection while I, Felicity Archer and my sister return to face the great evil which threatens our home at One April Morning on our earth in a different aspect of the Multiverse."

"I will alert our leader Sorceress, avatar of the Goddess of Exxor of your arrival and she can grant your mother sanctuary. "

Two women entered the reception and the one who shined with a white aura seemed to be the Avatar. The other woman was dressed in our fictional Batman's sidekick Robin costume.

"I am Sorceress, Avatar of the Goddess of Exxor. Oracle tells me that you have asked for sanctuary for your mother Lynn Archer. In the name of the Goddess of Exxor, I grant it. Lynn, my companion is Girl Wonder, Robin. Please go with her and she will get you settled with us. I hope you enjoy your stay."

Both Hanna and I gave Mother a hug and kiss and bid her goodbye. Lynn followed Robin out of reception and into the spaceship's habitation zone.

"Thank you for your hospitality, Sorceress and Oracle from both of us. We will return for our mother when things are safe at our home at One April Morning. We bid you farewell."

I extended my tesseract over Hanna and I and we vanished. I looked over to Hanna and she looked pleased.

"Now we need allies in our fight. I suggest we return to our original universe and seek out the other powers. There are many Promethean Heroines and Heros. They have so many different kinds of powers that among them must be what we might need to right what once went wrong. Amid the solo Heroines and Heros, there are also super powered groups who could help. What if you, with your Tesseract power, returned to the Prometheans for help?"

"I have another idea. What if the Oopsey Daisy is just a part of One April Morning's uniqueness which was just turned angry by outside forces? Instead of combating it, why don't we just try to put things right?"

"That sounds promising, Felicity. How do you wish to proceed?"

"First, I would like to separate the magical force that originally was not good or bad, just doing it's job to counter all wild magic at work so that it does not spill over into the mundane world from the angry entity that was joined to it. If I can do that, Hanna, can you heal it and bring it back in balance with nature?"

"I can do that, Felicity? What will you do with the angry entity?"

"I will heal the entity so that finally I get to their core. Once I can address the root of the problem then perhaps I can help solve it."

"That sounds like it may work. How do you propose we begin?"

"I'll go back in space time to where the Oopsie Daisy appeared but before it took action and engulf it in my tesseract and pour on the healing. When the magical force is free and back to being neutral, you can teleport to it and begin bringing it back into balance."

"Make it so, Felicity"

I did as planned and I materialize my tesseract around the Oopsey Daisy and started pouring the healing on them. Hanna teleported to heal the magical force which had been caught and empowering the angry entity. The Oopsey Daisy had become much weaker just by being cut off from the source that it had usurped to carry out its vendetta. From the totally dark, black outline of a person, it became lighter and lighter hues till it became transparent. I could see inside was a little girl dressed in retro fashions who had turned from having a temper tantrum to having a crying jag.

"POP!" The outer shell around the little girl vanished. I was able to gather the little girl into my arms and comforted her. After a long while she had cried herself out. I teleported the two of us to our apartment and put her to bed in my bed. I closed the door and found Hanna in the living room.

"Hello, Hanna. How did things go with you and the magical force?"

"She has turned good again. I don't feel like we will have any trouble with her again. She is content and fulfilled countering all the wild magic and bringing things into balance. I feel that now the forces behind One April Morning will keep a tighter rein on her to keep a repeat of this from happening. What happened with you and the entity, Felicity?

"I healed that dark black outline of a person and it became so light it was transparent. There was a loud pop, then the outer shell dissolved. The no longer angry little girl inside started crying. I gathered her up in my arms and let her cry herself out. She was wearing clothes from a very long time ago that I left on her when I put her to bed in our bed. She's sleeping now."

"Felicity, I'll go look in on her. I want to check something out."

"Okay, Hanna."

Hanna silently slipped into the bedroom and scanned the child for magic. When she was satisfied that she hadn't missed anything, she silently left and came back into the living room with Felicity.

"That is a very perplexing little girl in there. When I scanned the core of the Oopsie Daisy entity, I sensed that it was very old by human standards, not subject to aging, and endowed with a magic and a power which was not of this earth. That other worldly magic is how the entity was able to join with the clean up magic bypassing the safeguards the powers that be put in there to prevent that type of thing. Being cut off from the world of its origin, must be why the entity was so angry and hateful."

"Were you able to find out anything about the little girl?"

"She has ceased being eternally young. She's growing older and growing up every day like any ordinary little girl. But she is still not of this world. Ordinarily the seal on her magic would not have released until puberty, and then it would release gradually. Some sort of disaster must have happened when she reached earth, at One April Morning, for her complete magic to be all released at once. Right now she's an orphan who needs protecting, a mundane right now until puberty who is no danger to anyone."

"When she wakes, I'll talk with her and see what I can find out, Hanna. After that if we both are certain that there is no danger, I'll go back to the Teen Super Friends Space Station and bring Mother back from sanctuary"

I slipped quietly into the bedroom and brought a chair to the bedside, sat down, and started reading. After a while the little girl stirred and sat up and looked at me."

"Mommy?"

"I'm here sweetheart and you are safe and loved."

"Are you my Mommy now?"

"Is that what you want me to be, sweetheart?"

"Oh yes, Mommy, with all my heart!"

"I am your Mommy! What do I call you, daughter?"

"I am your Beth, silly Mommy, that's short for Elizabeth. You are very funny!"

"How would you like for your last name be the same as Mommy's, Beth?"

"I would love that Mommy!"

"Then your whole name is Elizabeth Archer but I will call you Beth. Is that okay, Beth?"

"Yes, Mommy. My whole name is Elizabeth Archer but I will be your Beth, Mommy."

"Beth, please tell me about your old home and how you came to become my daughter?"

"My old home came from long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. My first Mommy and Daddy were very afraid when the blue sky turned to red. Mommy said that there was a meanie called Antimatter that was eating all our people. But Daddy had built a spaceship and put me in it. When I asked the nice lady, who only had a voice but no body, in the spaceship where was she taking me, she told me that we were going to a whole different Universe because my old home and everybody in it including Mommy and Daddy had been eaten by the Antimatter. She told me that she was taking me to a place called One April Morning, where my new Mommy would be. She told me that it would take her a very long time to get there so she was going to let me go to sleep for a long nap so that I would be rested when she got there. She said to herself 'Beginning Hibernation" and I went to sleep."

"What happened when you woke up, Beth?"

"It was dark, smoky and smelled funny inside. For the first time the lady sounded worried when she spoke to me. She told me that she was old and feeble and could not take me the rest of the way to my Mommy. With her last gasp the lady teleported me down to the woodpile at One April Morning. I looked up into the sky and the nice lady spaceship, blew up. I was overwhelmed with a huge rush of Magic and sadness over becoming an orphan far from home. I was angry and was throwing a tantrum. I felt another great magic and I reached out and captured it. It reached up and took me down under the woodpile where it lived, and we both went to sleep"

"What woke you up, Beth?"

The other had copied my anger and wanted to lash out at the one called Habib. I wanted to throw a temper tantrum and lash out at everyone, and the last straw was when the nice lady who brought me here, died. I covered myself in a very hard and very dark shell and then went back up to the wood pile to strike out in hatred to everyone. Then you found me and healed me and became my Mommy. Now all is well with me."

"That's nice Beth. Let's get up and go meet your Aunt Hanna."

"Okay, Mommy."

Beth and I exited the bedroom, and Beth ran up to Hanna and gave her a big hug. "Hi Aunt Hanna. Do you live here too?"

"Hello Beth. Yes I do. I found something that I think you will like. Please follow me."

Hanna led us to a door that I had not seen before and it opened onto a perfect little girl's room. It was decorated with Disney Princesses and contained a four poster canopy bed with matching dresser, and vanity. The best feature was a large doll house that covered most of one wall which included and was large enough for normal sized Barbie's and everything in the doll house worked.

"Thank you, Mommy!", Beth shouted with glee as she wrapped me up in a hug.

"My pleasure, Beth.", I silently thanked the powers for their provision and knew that soon I would have to make arrangements to have the addition put on our rental bill.

"Why don't you go pick up Beth's Granny and I can watch over Beth while you are gone?"

"That is good thinking, Hanna. Beth, would you like to stay in here with your Aunt Hanna and play Barbie while I go pick up your Granny?"

"Yes, Mommy. I'll be good for Aunt Hanna. Auntie Hanna, what kind of dolls are Barbies?"

"They are really fun and show us what we can be like when we grow up to become women. Say goodbye to your Mommy, Beth."

"Bye, Beth and Hanna", I waited for Beth's room door to close behind me before I gathered my Tesseract and appeared on the Teen Super Friend's Space Station to pick up Mother. I didn't have long to wait before Mother was coming through the doorway to greet me herself.

"Hello, Felicity. Are you come to take me home? I guessed that you would be in a hurry to get us home, so I've already said my farewells here. They are very busy now with a group of new recruits, but they send their regards."

"Yes Mother, I'm ready to take you home where it's safe again now. I'll tell you the long of it latter. The short of it is that you have a new granddaughter, my daughter, Beth who is waiting at home and is eager to meet you.

"That's wonderful news, Felicity. It seems like you have found family, yet again. I'm very glad for your new addition. Let's go meet Beth."

"I wrapped my tesseract around both of us and we vanished from the Teen Super Friend's Space Station and we appeared outside the door to Beth's bedroom. I opened her door and we joined Beth and Hanna inside"

"Beth, Hanna, we are home. Beth, I'd like for you to meet your Granny Lynn."

"Granny!" Beth engulfed Lynn best she could in a big hug.

"I have an errand to take care of in Mrs. Dumfries' office. See you all soon."

This time I walked to Mrs. Dumfries office. She told me to come in. She must have been expecting me because she had Miss Tarquin beside her with a stack of papers. I walked through the door and took a seat.

"I have another addition to my family to live with me. I want to adopt the orphan girl, Miss Elizabeth, that was left behind when we cured the Oopsey Daisy.

"That's a very sad story about the orphan girl's life. I want to assure you that Habib was reprimanded by the highest authority for his part in it. Also I'd like to thank you for adopting Beth. Evidently she has been our guest at One April Morning for quite a long time but her welfare has been neglected. I feel that she will be in very good hands as your daughter. As for payment for the rest of this month for Beth's room and her stay with us, it is waived for services rendered. A fight on the grounds would have led to much damage and expenses as evidenced by the destruction of the folly and fire in Habib's mishap. Thank you for seeing to our well being, Felicity."

"My pleasure, Mrs. Dumfries. Thank you for your part in helping me find my family."

"My pleasure, Felicity. Miss. Tarquin has some papers for you to sign to take care of all the legalities before you leave."

"Thank you.", I signed all of the paperwork that Miss. Tarquin put before me, Then I took my leave of them and returned home to my family

Inside I was greeted by a big group hug from Lynn, Beth and Hanna, my family.

"I've come home! I have found my family and that is all of you! Daughter Beth, Momma Lynn and Sister Hanna, I love you all so much! "

They all said together, "We love you, Felicity! (Beth said Mommy, instead of Felicity) Welcome home!"

And we all lived happily ever after at One April Morning, where there is always room for another member of the family!

The End of Felicity Finds Family