Free The Great Altruist by Z. D. Robinson Page A

asked.
     
                “I do. And I have to admit, I admired you wholly before I ever met you. But now,” she said, “I stand in awe of you.”
     
                Jadzia pulled her hair behind her head and used a small twig to hold it in place. “I couldn’t live with myself any other way.”
     
                “I just hope I can learn something from all this too.”
     
                “What do you mean?”
     
                “I came to you in a desire to help you, but I still have no idea how I’m supposed to do that. Something deep inside of me yearns to help people. Maybe this is my calling: bringing an end to suffering.”
     
                “I can’t imagine a loftier goal. But how will any of this work?”
     
                Genesis flew to Jadzia’s side and then sat next to her. “You won’t be able to travel as you did before. It will be far too dangerous. Besides, if your goal is to prevent a war, you won’t do much good as a young Polish girl walking around Nazi Germany.”
     
                “Let me guess: the fox and the rat?”
     
                Genesis nodded. “I’m afraid there’s no other way. I’ll need to put your mind in the bodies of people we wish to control.”
     
                “Won’t they suspect something?”
     
                “Well, to the people listening, perhaps. That’s where your knowledge of history will play a part. But to the person whose body is borrowed, no, they won’t know a thing. Instead of switching your minds like I showed you earlier, I can hold onto their mind inside the stream.”
     
                “Where will you be?”
     
                “I’ll never leave your side,” she assured her with a touch on the hand. “I’ll hide in a pocket, the fold of a garment, wherever I need to. Trust me, switching minds back is a lot faster to do than sending your entire body.”
     
                “What will happen to my body though?”
     
                “With your mind absent, your body will fall into a deep sleep. Your body will stay here in the clearing.”
     
                “Where do we start?”
     
                Genesis lifted off the ground and hovered in front of Jadzia. “If we’re going to make a significant change, we need to go back to the beginning of key events and attempt to change their outcome. But we shouldn’t go back too far at once, or the chances of a paradox increase. From what the history books in the future say, the war officially began when your country was invaded.”
     
                “So, what do we do? Stop the tanks from invading?”
     
                “No, that would just stall it. The only way to prevent it is to change the minds of the people in charge?”
     
                “How am I supposed to do that?”
     
                “We need more information first. The invasion was started by the Germans and Soviets though, so they must have been planning it for a while.”
     
                “Okay,” Jadzia said. “Let’s start there.”
     
                “There’s one more thing we need to deal with before we do anything,” Genesis said.
     
                “What’s wrong?”
     
                “I’m going to get the information we need from the future, but you will need access to it as well.”
     
                “How?”
     
                “That’s the problem. There are two options: I can memorize all the history books on the war and dictate them to you. Or I learn all we need and then share it with you. To do that, I’ll need to do something I’ve never tried before. Once inside the stream, I can manipulate all forms of energy, including my own. I should be able to transfer the knowledge from my mind into yours. And of course,