Intruder Alert: Part 7

Alice chuckled when she realized that they called her Ancient Alien Alice. Little did they know how close to the truth they were. Her actual Earth name was Alicia, at least, during her first assignment on Earth, that was the name she went by. She decided to change it to Alice, not only was it easier to pronounce, but she loved the story of Alice in Wonderland. Her life had been like that. At an early age, she had been dropped into a rabbit-hole-like conduit, and since then she’d been planet hopping, dimensional transitioning and otherworldly tripping ever since.
She didn’t know exactly why she was here on Earth again. Her presence anywhere was always a mystery, until the last minute, when she would find herself knowing what to say and what to do to solve some incredibly complex problem. While she was here, and since she knew she would be coming back here, she always brought some potion, incantation or new acquired magical power that might help bring her son back to his senses. The problem was that her son didn’t remember who he was. And that was the main reason why it was hard to bring him back with her. He had taken on an Earth identity and was going by the name of Blake Austin, manager of a Home Improvement Super store. So mundane, it made her head spin just thinking about it. After all, he was a descendant of a long line of planetary, dimensional explorer adventurer types, confronting every conceivable situation, environment and civilization across the universe and living to tell about it.

He was missed at the last family clan meeting. In the past he had acquired a reputation as a very entertaining story teller. Usually his escapades were fantastically unbelievable. There was a clan gathering coming up soon. She was hoping she could bring him around by then. Everyone in the family was accustomed to being regaled with his extraordinary exploits. And the spontaneous sharing of useful strategies by the other attendees would better equip him for surviving the most insidious of adversaries. Sadly the clan was certainly not going to experience any expansion of the envelope of their possibilities by hearing about the boring life of a mercantile manager on a relatively mild mannered planet such as Earth. Oh, hum. It could be worse, she thought.
The closest pronunciation of her son’s real handle resembled an ancient Sanskrit name, Bhoj. How often she had thought about how he had got into this predicament. Somehow he had succumbed to a self-induced trance intended to give him deep powers of insight, and the ability to express poetic conundrums woven into the fabric of time and space. As he tried to come out of the trance on this world, he had absorbed the essence of the mental, and spiritual development of this culture, and voila: the personality and persona of Blake Austin was born. Alice had returned a number of times, with a number of so-called cures or remedies to pull him out of his allusion. She thought she hit upon the solution, and started the recovery process the last time she was here. It will take awhile, she knew, depending on a number of subtle factors, but she had faith that he would gradually begin questioning his experiences on this world and compare them with his memory of the past revealed to him in his dreams.
Alice was pulled out of her contemplation when she felt the presence of her son and his cute helper approaching. What was her name? Jellie? Willie? whatever.
Alice could sense that Blake was experiencing a growing awareness of the subtle energies of this location. Thousands of years ago, this site had been used by a star traveling race as a transition loci between solar systems. Deep below in the earth were the appropriate metals that could be used to store the interplanetary energies for galactic travel. That was one of the reasons she could easily come here literally out of thin air. Her energy harnessing device resembled a dowsing rod used by some earth people to find water and other things. Fortunately she was able to hide it before the girl got a closer look at it.
Alice turned quickly, as Nellie came around the corner and appeared at the end of the aisle.
“Hello Nellie, how are you,” Alice said relieved that she had remembered her name. Thank goodness for spontaneous divine memory, Alice thought.
“Eh, hi Alice, we..ah,” Nellie said, and then turned to look back, apparently expecting Blake to be right behind her. “Now where did he go?.”
“He must have stopped to remember something,” Alice said.
“You mean he remembered he forgot something and went back for it?” Nellie replied.
“Whatever makes sense to you,” Alice agreeably said.

To be continued…..