Chapter Six - "Psyche & Speed"
Part I
I do not know how much I will say.
More than anyone I understand how little you will be able to understand me.
But I know you -- hundreds of you -- intimately.
Psyche.
All of you are a part of me... it is hard sometimes not to use we in the place where I should be. I am a We now.
When a Telepath reads you they get all of you. Your life plays out in our minds in a burst. We remember it all. Not every single second... but all the moments that mattered.
Every time I touch a new person a little more of me becomes we.
When we first came to Olympus I had everyone record a video tape. Questions were prepared, we made a deal of it. Each of us talked about how we felt about who we had become and what we hoped the future would bring.
They are meant to help ground us. In my friends minds I saw the steps towards godhood being taken. They did not see what they were doing as such... but I did. I was forced to conclude I was probably doing the same.
Hence the tapes.
We would watch them every year. Together if possible.
Each of us has changed so much the person on the screen is almost a stranger. But they do help, a little, to keep us off of the wrong path. Those tapes are the reminder that keeps Pulsar, Thor and the rest of the battle goons from destroying half the planet in the pursuit of good deeds.
They know I do not mean that, I love them all. But it is not without a grain of truth, and they know that too, boo-boo.
For me the screen shows a very faded memory. I who can remember the lives of countless people cannot remember myself.
All of my sisters and I are attempting to find a way to cope with this problem, perhaps we will. We have a basic rule that it is ok to go the 'We' route when you are out to scare a cretin but not when you are with friends.
We have turned our problem into another power. But then we are all women and we adapt. There has only been one male Telepath. I met him, I killed him. If you had met him you would have killed him too.
Only time I saw Pulsar completely and utterly stunned. He did not say a single word for 96 minutes.
Please do not pity me, I am a goddess after all and quite thrilled with my lot in life. What I am doing is the most important work on the planet hands down charlie brown.
Psyche, Goddess of Olympus
Part II
speed
that's me
It is what i do what I live what i crave
i sleep when i do for an hour a day
i eat a whole lot and lots and lots
sorry that I cannot form what I want to say into words that you could hear and then understand. I used to be able to do that but not anymore
i can sit i can listen pulsar can bite me on that one i do not wish to i do not have to so why should i
when he calls i always show up, that is the only thing that matters to me. when the police or the search & rescue or the fire department or animal control or anybody allowed to have the number calls i show up we show up
please do not mistake my manner of speech as somehow telling you I am stupid or a child or anything like that at all because it is not the case
i can read at speed too i love that phrase. there is a big building in washington dc the library of congress
read it
they say they being a bunch of people nobody ever met that travel broadens the mind guess how many places i have visited. i speak 23 languages speak them well, i read 14
bet you never guessed that one i do not communicate well with others who are not of my kind but i try really hard i can say let me help you in over 50 languages
of course i also know the word for demon in about eight different languages those are the words i hear just before they start throwing or shooting at me i do understand
wish i did not have to wear the mask it is most of the problem but they are necessary Pulsar Thor and Psyche all say so and that is good enough for me i say so and that is good enough for all the other speedsters
questions there are questions here
what no what don't understand no no what no
forget it none of those things make any sense to me
ok trying again
when i move sometimes everyone seems to be frozen but that is an extreme most of the time i feel like i am flowing along much faster than you but you look kinda normal. not sure what normal is anymore you have to understand
it is a good thing that you cannot see us most of the time if you could the number of times we circle sit circle bounce and so on would probably be very very very annoying
i feel a lot older than i should i bet they will eventually figure out how much more time i live compared to the normal there is that word again wish i knew what it meant
no opinion on what we did or why we did it or what we could have done differently some people were killing other people i helped those who fought against the killers
that made us killers too made me one. how can life work like that and still make any sense to you let alone me
my new friends gave me things to do
i live in the speed but i need something to do
pulsar asks me to go somewhere far away and look at every single person every door everything and then write down a whole bunch of stuff then bring it back
for 10 minutes i have purpose
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Psyche & Speed
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