My journal for my kittens by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

Family problems

I drive back to the farm only to find a sibling has set up herself and her family in my home. Her husband and her come out as I pull in. I get out. “What the fuck are you doing on my land!” I yell. I had put my up graded pistol on my seat.

She calmly tells me that the agreement that mom signed was not valid and they now have filed a lean on this property. “We have now taken possession of this property. You need to leave right now.”

The husband is now holding up a shotgun. I do the smart thing and pull out my phone and call my lawyer. Saying what he told me to say, “You have one hour to vacate my property. There will be repercussions if you do not leave. Very bad repercussions if you damage anything.”

I get in the car, back out and park on the street like I was told. After a while waiting, I hear the wail of sirens. There must be at least twenty vehicles screaming here. A lot look like military. My lawyer and the official get out and come to me.

They talk to me on the road. With this force, someone will get hurt. I now know what I need to do. Telling them to make a display of what could happen, over the objections of the lawyer and leader of the force, I walk up to the house. “We need to sit down at the table and discuss this. I do not want to see any of you killed. What I need to do is only for your eyes. That includes your two children.” I had already pushed the button on the fob. They hear the children tell their parents to come in. “People are here.”

They panic and go inside. What was waiting for them is not what they expected. There is one man and two women. They have that presence that tells everyone that they are not ordinary. I tell my sister,

“I need your family to sit. Let me introduce you to my real boss. These are the gods of all and this is the entity known as the Watcher.” The three are now literally glowing. The male god of all speaks, “For this moment, time has been stopped. What we discuss here is not to be spoken outside this room.”

The Watcher gets up in the face of my sister. “I am the entity that looks after my children.” she is pointing to my sister’s children. “What a good example you have taught to these. Greed and envy. Wonderful. You have taught them that you only have to take what you want. You do not have to work for it. As of now, you have gained my notice.” Now the female god of all speaks to her, “This man, his grandfather and third great grandfather all have worked for us, the gods of all. Your brother has just helped others to an unimaginable scale. He now is in a worlds history books. He has bettered their standing in the universe. What have you done?”

Again the male god of all speaks. “Able here is under our protection. Any act against him, Able would you please show them your fob.” I hand it to the god and he shows them the buttons. “This is what he pushed to alert us that he needed us. Now we will hear what you have to say to us as to why you have done what you have done.” They go silent and wait.

I’m sorry my sister. She does not realize just how severe a situation she has caused. She spouts how I killed her parents, how I tricked them out of their rightful inheritance. How I stole from them what is rightfully hers.

The gods of all look at her. “Watcher please take her to one of your worlds and show her just what greed and envy results in.”

Now she and the watcher are gone. In a minute they are back but my sister is broken. She collapses into a fetal ball. The children have been placed out of time so they do not see this.

She now has regained some composure. All she kept repeating was, “I did not know.” The watcher told us that she had my parents and grandparents come and have a talk with her. She did not elaborate but the way my sister was trying to avoid my eyes told me a lot. Now it is time for me to talk.

“You now know more than your other siblings know. I forgive you. How about this, I ask these gods to watch over you but to help guide you and your family in the direction I am on. I now own a wholesale toy store. Gods of all, would you please help her and her family to see just what happiness you can get by helping others.” I look at both her, her husband and her children. “There is a world out there that gold and other precious metals are just trash. I gave a world a thousand pounds of gold and silver so they could help other worlds. That feeling I got is my riches. Grandfather Able went to other worlds and gifted others what they needed but could not afford. He also gave children things to enjoy, things to play with. That is why I now own a toy company and that outlet.”

I look at the children, “I envy you because you will see that joy in the eyes of a child that has nothing when you personally take that child’s hand and ask them to pick out anything in the store as a gift. You will find that it will become an addiction. You will want more of that feeling. Sis, they will do that. No charge to that child or parent. Know this, I ask the gods of all to give you the ability to see who is trying to take advantage of you and give you the wisdom to know exactly what you need to say and do to guide that one back to the good side.”

I hug her.

The gods tell them that this is done. They leave. I now talk to them for myself. I find that they made some bad investments and lost even their house. “You are now the caretakers of the property. Use this as your home but remember that I will be living here also. You now know what I do and who my boss’s are. I beg you to go down the right path.”

I look out the window and find that there is no one there. I know that the gods took care of that. The lawyer calls and would like to come here and go over the opening of the store. He needs to go over how we are treating the opening. I tell him that my sister’s family will be the ones running the store. That they now will live and watch the farm while I am away.

He does not question me on that.

I’m glad to say that ever since the event, her entire family has honored the intent of the store. They are now famous for helping. It is said that they must have been touched by the gods.

Seeing their change made me feel good. Is there hope for the others? I can only hope but as these now know what happens when you gain notice of the gods. This time it turned out for the good but the others, I don’t want to think about it.

It was bound to happen

I have now accumulated many things. Now I look for beneficial items. There have been worlds that I have encountered that seem like they are heading down the road to mutual destruction. Those I have called the gods of all and have turned the world over to their attention.

For my own safety, I leave those worlds to them, but not after getting some things that I think would help others. Don’t want to lose those just in case. Knowing what each like, I have reconfigured the hide’s inventory shelving into three sections. One for the cleanup crew, one for the Junkman and the last for things I want to distribute. Those are the things for midnight drop off. There are toys and games that I have found on other worlds that I now have patents on and produce in my factory.

As a side note, I now have my lawyer as a partner in my ventures. I have had him process so much gold that I no longer need him for that. There are worlds that can use that trash from that world.

Speaking of which, they welcome me because I help them dispose of their old landfills. This is a gesture of good will to help them reclaim that land from that waste. I will say that those gold toilets polish up nicely. So do the tubs and sinks. Many a royal on worlds now have them.

As I was saying, the inventory needs to be gone over. I have both come over and go over their respective inventories. I did misfile a few items but thanks to the upgrade on the glasses, there were no errors in the safety levels. With the reviews done, the Cleanup crew is able to just use their pocket dimensional bag to take their things but they also know that the Junkman likes the old ways. He has his crew helping them move the boxes on their skids. This is now the third time that they have taken my inventory. There is, in his crew, goblins, felids and mouse folk. I have noticed on other occasions a felid that I would call a tiger striped in my world. She has been looking at me each time as I check off the items on the skids. She looks away when I notice so I try not to notice. I will say one thing that I would not have even ventured to think about before I took this job, I find her attractive.

They are almost done with the loading when I notice her talking with both Vannessa and Jacob but she is actually hanging onto Vannessa as the three come over to me. “This is Catlin.” Vannessa tells me. I greet her and then she starts to talk. I can tell that she has a lot bottled up and the cork has been opened. “I have been watching you each time we come to pick up your items. I know that you have just given them away. You are a kind man who I have fallen in love with.” Now she has gone back to hiding behind Vannessa.

Jacob now tells me that she would like to stay with you as her mate. I am at a loss for words but a certain someone just appears. Looks at me with those eyes that tell me not to interrupt her or face a trip to one of her worlds. Nope, I will listen. “You have not wanted to use that computer app. You yourself told me that you wanted love. Well here it is! This one is your perfect mate, pun intended.” She takes Catlin by the hand and places it in my hand. “Able, you know that you have feelings for her but you know that your world is not ready to know that other races exist. Catlin show him what your species can do.”

She shifts into the most beautiful human you could imagine. I am dumb struck but I know that my feelings will come out properly.

“Catlin would you please shift back into the felid shape.” She does but looks like she is expecting to be rejected.

“I have found you to be very attractive in this form. Your human form is just as attractive but I do favor this one. I must tell you that my world, this world does not have any other sentient species other than human. If you were to stay with me, you would have to live, in public in that human form and guard yourself from saying anything about other worlds. Would you be able to do that? I find myself in love with you also but do not want you to burden yourself.”

That took a lot out of me and now I am the one ready to be rejected. She tells me that it will be very comfortable for her either way. The Watcher now tells us that we need to go to the first goblin world. She looks at Catlin and tells her that her parents must be asked properly. Jacob and Vannessa tell the crew to finish loading and then open the door to the home world. The five of us go through the door to the first goblin world.

My head is spinning, too fast. I take a long cold drink from the flask. The others are curious so I offer and wait. Only Catlin does not feel that it is too cold to drink. She says that this is the first time since she left home that she has been able to get a properly chilled drink of water. All others have been too warm.

The Watcher is smiling and I have a chill.

Now the elders are gathering and the Watcher greets her children, the goblins. “My children, we have come here so Able can visit Catlin’s parents. I do ask that you come to bare witness to what is to unfold.”

All very formal as to convey no other meaning. The now parade follows as the parade master, the Watcher, led us to Catlin’s parents home. In a majestic voice she says, “Parents of Catlin. You are requested to come out. Please take this time to get yourselves into your formal attire.”

They don’t know what to expect but in a little less than a half an hour, the parents come out to see the entire population in front of their house but there is a figure that they immediately knew that this was the one that summoned them. The mother spots her daughter but now sees me, a human, standing next to her. I put on my man pants and step forward.

“My name is Able Arlyn. Today I have been formally introduced to your daughter. Over a period of visits to my inventory storage, I have come to notice your daughter. Today, her superiors Jacob and Vanessa brought her over to talk to me. I will let her tell what she told me then I will ask you a question.

Catlin tells them of how she came to love me and today got the courage to tell me. I now tell them of explaining that my world only has humans on it. No other sentient species lives there. I tell them of how it would be for her to have to present herself as human. She has accepted it and the Watcher has sanctioned this but only after you approve.

“I love your daughter and request your approval for her to marry me.” I bow to them. It is the father that steps in front of me. “Do you pledge before this gathering that you will protect her?”

“I will”

Her mother now asks, “Will you always love her and give her a good home?”

“I will”

The father now speaks to the crowd. “I as well as all of you know this man. Know of where his heart is. It is pinned on his sleeve for all to see. I say that his actions speak for him. He could have just taken my daughter and by the looks of her, she would not object. Even though the Watcher brought them here, he stood before her parents and asked permission.

Able Arlyn, if I was to tell you no, what would you do?”

“I would respect that decision but I would tell you that I will die as an old single man. Never to marry another if you were to answer me in that manner.” Her mother now askes Catlin, “Daughter, if I were to say no, what would you do?”

“I would sadden the both of you. I would go to Able and live with him knowing that I would never be accepted back here again.”

Her mother nods to her father. Her father now tells the crowd. “We, Catlin’s parents give Able Arlyn permission to be mate to our daughter Catlyn. That will be tomorrow.” The Watcher says that she now sanctions this union. “You will have your ceremony here and then we will have a ceremony on Able’s world at sometime in the future. His world will not know but I will bring her parents to his home for their ceremony. Now I need the two to come back to his world. She will need to be in her human form. He must show her where they will be living. I want her parents with us. We will be back for this worlds ceremony.”

She has her parents and Catlin change into human forms. She opens a door directly in the farm parlor. Much to the surprise of my sister.

The Watcher is greeted with a warm welcome. Far different from the last time. She tells me that I am the one to tell them.

I introduce Catlin and her parents to my sister and her family. The children are smart and sense things that we adults don’t. Their young daughter tugs on her mothers sleeve and says, “Mom, they are cats.”

The Watcher squats down to the child’s level and places a hand on the child’s head. “You are going to be one of my favorites but the correct term is that they are called felids. Please make sure that this is your family’s secret. Tell no one else.” My sister and her husband are just staring. I explain. “Those worlds that the gods of all talked about are filled with other races that we only saw in those old drawings in the old Egyptian halls. Those do exist. Please understand that this world is not mature enough to know about them. Now for the reason we came.

“I have asked Catlin to be my wife. On her world they call it mates. Catlin’s parents have granted us permission to wed and the ceremony will be tomorrow. I do not know if this is the reason the Watcher had us come here but after we are done here, we must return for that ceremony. Will you honor us to come with us to her home and represent my side?”

They are stunned but the kids are already going to pack some things. The Watcher tells them to think about it but she told Catlin and I to follow her outside. She does tell the parents that they can go to their original form and relax. We went outside but I really would have liked to see their faces. I did not expect that we would be shown to the grave yard. Catlin immediately knows what it is.

“I wanted to show you something that this man did. This is the respect he showed to the people who owned this land before.” She walked her through, naming all the ones there through lineage. She stopped in front of that child’s grave and now speaks to it. “You have now come full circle. Enjoy that life you dreamed of.” She turns and this time she pats Catlin’s arm then mine. We both look at each other. We don’t ask her but the Watcher just nods to us both. We knew why she had us come out. Back in the house, the children are bouncing. The parents are sitting and talking with my sister and brother in law as if it was always meant to be. I do think it was. Without even asking, Catlin changes.

I am enamored with both forms but this one is best, They now see and my sister stands and welcomes her to the family. “He said it but I ask you, is it all right for us to come to your world?”

Catlin hugs her and just tells her that she would not have the ceremony until she was there. “Just know, your two children may receive marriage contract requests.” My sister does do a double take on that but a smile creeps on to her face. “We will just have to see.”

The new world, at least to them

It is just the people of the goblin world. They are the ones that greet all with the same respect. It is no surprise that when my sister’s family comes through the door, they are warmly greeted. The women were taken away to get outfitted. My brother in law and I are watching while the two children are greeted by goblin, mouse folk and felid mouse folk children.

The two were introduced to the fighter model car. Soon they were experts. They did not want to stop when we called them in for a meal. Again children are children. They loved the food and also the quantity. Quite a few of the goblin adults ask my sister is they were open to marriage contracts.

It was a common observation comment that the two must have some goblin blood in them.

I was amazed that, even though they had an encounter with the gods, how quickly they became comfortable with the residents of this world. This shows that there is some hope that in the future, we may see a time that our world will welcome other species. I do know that these children will want their vacations here. The ceremony was actually simple. We just said to the crowd that we are now mates. Her father acknowledges us as mated and then we ate. I was startled when a certain someone told me that on the dragon worlds the mating had to be consummated in front of the clans matriarch. Remind me not to wed a dragon. It came time to retire for the first night. I’ll say that my trips and my stint in the Navy made me battle ready but what a pleasant battle we had that night. She is unbelievable but we may, at some time talk about claws. I found she can go feral. The next morning we came out, battered and bruised, not walking very well but we came out to the cheers of the people. Soon it was time to go home. Her parents wished she could stay for a little while but I reminded that we had a door installed so they were a step away.

Her mom’s parting instructions were make sure that we are the first to know when those kittens will be born.

Catlin had one more thing to do and then we could go home. She went aboard the Bone Yard and cleaned up her cabin. She packed what she wanted. I put it all in my bag. We stepped out of her room and there were Jacob and Vannessa along with an honor guard. She knew what was going to happen and squeezed my arm as we were escorted to the assembly area off the bridge.

The two went from first names to the captains. Vannessa now spoke. “One of our crew is going to have her name written in the book. This book lists all the crew that have gone ashore permanently. No death date is written. For those who leave will eventually rejoin the ship in the final life. Today Catlin is being piped over board. We wish her happy sailing on calm waters in her new life. Scribe write Catlin Arlyn married this date piped over board.”

The scribe does and we are marched to the door that connects to the goblin world. Without a word we step through and Catlin now cries as she says that it is tradition to close the hatch so the people do not see each other cry. Now that we are back, it is time to go back to our world. My sisters children did not want to go but were told that we would be back, often. We stepped through the Watchers door to the farm house. Now things get awkward.