chapter 60 Dr. bishop (work in progress)

time passed fast and at 10 AM a delicate woman with blonde hair and black eyes walked inside the specter dimension

Sophia came out to welcome her the moment she appeared and said while hugging her "hi, Ellie"

Dr. Bishop hugged her back and said "it's been a little more than a month, not a century, I know you didn't call me just to catch up, what happened?"

Sophia said "I need your help, come in and I'll explain everything"

Sophia and Dr. Bishop entered the specter castle living room where Phoebe, Joseph, and Vincent welcomed her, and after sitting down Sophia explained what she knew about Daniel to Dr. Bishop while they were drinking some tea

Dr. Bishop already knew about Daniel's existence as she was along the family and friends invited to Sophia's welcome back party, but of course, the specific situation was never explained

after being brought up to speed Dr. Bishop said "indeed, the situation it's far from ideal, but the real problem it's the limited growth, the best example would be the hormonal change during puberty, it's possible that he will not have a chance to experience that"

Sophia nodded and said "indeed the body of a human fully matures at the age of 25"

the other three who had limited knowledge had question marks all over, seeing their expressions Dr. Bishop said

"the other children with the affliction reach at least the age of 14, for example even if they don't grow older they have a chance to marry and have children of their own even if they will never reach full maturity, while Daniel is stuck at 10 if he's a late bloomer his body will never develop enough for him to have children"

Vincent said "but what about his mutation, wouldn't he be able to adapt?"

Sophia replied "there are still more questions than answers about his mutation, there's no way of knowing anything specific right now"

Dr. Bishop said "well, you should have already done a full round of testing, but anyway what I meant it's that we probably can't use the other children with the affliction as a reference because the situation even if it looks similar it's completely different, we are in uncharted territory"

Sophia looked away a little showing an obvious expression of guilt and said "I know I should have but these kinds of tests can get really invasive and I don't know how to get through to him, he's already susceptible with the whole being unable to cultivate subject"

Dr. Bishop said "from what I heard he does not have any qualms with it, do you have any evidence that suggests otherwise?"

Sophia responded "when he heard he would not become older than 10 there was a couple of months in which he was depressed"

at this time Daniel walked in and said "that's quite wrong, I was sadder because of the failure with the batteries, maybe I would have been depressed if I had tried to find a solution and failed many times, but at the time I was only sad"

Phoebe said "why are you awake so soon? we were welcoming Dr. . . ."

Daniel blocked her, raising his hand, and said "it's ok, I know, Dr. Bishop is it? the last time we met I wasn't completely myself, it's a pleasure to meet you"

Dr. Bishop said "the pleasure is all mine, I was dying to make your acquaintance"

Daniel sat down at the table nodded then said "while mom, dad, and grandma put their itchy on private, grandpa left it public, Tickles relays to me every information he deems relevant so I already know the whole conversation"

Phoebe, Joseph but most of all Sophia glared at Vincent, she told him how itchy worked but he still forgot to activate private mode in which itchy wouldn't register anything

Vincent scratched the back of his head and said "well we would have told him everything when he joined anyway, what's the big deal?"

Sophia nodded and peace was restored swiftly

at the same time, Dr. Bishop said "your quite mature for your age, tell me what was your favorite part of your adventure on alien planets?"

Daniel thought for a couple of seconds then said "I guess my favorite thing was meeting sister chaos, I really liked working together on project jellyfilter to save the sea of a planet named retak, even if I didn't do much"

Dr. Bishop asked "why just the sea?"

Daniel responded "I like to go fishing, and I kinda thought the natives of retak had it coming"

Dr. Bishop said "why the past tense? do you think otherwise now?"

Daniel said "I thought that all of them looked the other way in exchange for a cheap energy bill, but the truth was that a group of bad guys was feeding false information and getting rid of those who looked for the truth, it's all in the documentary Tickles made, you're free to watch it"

Dr. Bishop looked confused and said "whose Tickles?"

a silver liquid came out of Daniel's sleeve and turned into a scaly dog than a mechanical voice said "it's me, nice to meet you"

Dr. Bishop said "nice to meet you" while throwing a confused look at Sophia

but before Sophia could explain Daniel said "Tickles is my assistant, kinda, he was grandpa's souvenir, and then I ate his soul now he's a part of me, and since I separated our consciousness better he became more and more of a zealot"

the confused expression on Dr. Bishop didn't change and Sophia said "it's an apocalypse grade lifeform with a soul sacrifice contract to Daniel, some nanites from the war Vincent kept as a souvenir deadly to technology, but almost innocuous to anything biological, to make a comparison it would be a legendary grade tool"

after a look of enlightenment, Dr. Bishop said "in what ways he's a zealot?"

Daniel instead of responding to her said to Tickles "play what you registered on your own for protocol 7"

Tickles voice wasn't mechanical anymore as he played a message that seemed recorded by a world-class voice actor "the one who wanders, the immortal child, the freer being in the universe, the itchy is not allowed to say more to a non-member, but if you met him you will know who he is"

Daniel looked at Dr. Bishop and said "if you need more you can take a walk to the memory palace the inscriptions are all him or watch the documentary also his idea"

Dr. Bishop said "indeed those titles have something about them akin to a prayer to a higher being, but you didn't erase them, he does anything you want him to do, why don't just order them gone"

Daniel said "that would be violating his freedom, I may not like it, but I'm not going to prohibit him from expressing himself in any way he wants to, for now, I just ordered him to ask permission before doing stuff and disallowed massacres"

Tickle's original mechanical voice came out again and said "also that master hobbies are above logic"

Daniel replied "that's just based on wanting to help the fishes even if it helps the people, it's case-specific and it's already in the past"

Dr. Bishop said "what does that mean?"

Daniel said "at the time it was before I discovered the real guilty people, I started project jellydroid with the idea of saving the fish from the pollution, that later became project jellyfilter"

Dr. Bishop asked "and what did you do when you discovered the bad people?"

Daniel said "well fun fact, the souvenir I brought back, were being held hostage by the bad people in an underground building, so I liberated them getting rid of those who tried to stop me and published the truth with proof on every news network on retak, the rest it's up to them, I may also have sent an upgraded version of their generators that is ecological and efficient and some low-grade filtering method, so they don't have to drink polluted water nothing much"

Dr. Bishop said "it's safe to say that you committed a massacre to save this planet called retak and even gave them the tools to survive and prosper, but where does it go from there?"

Daniel asked "what do you mean?"

Dr. Bishop said "you saved them, solved their problems, what next? are you going to guard their planet?"

Daniel responded "if I wanted, I could, pretty easily, but I already repaid them for the souvenirs, and it's not like I left my name, these events can become a legend or even a fairytale, but we all know that someone will take responsibility, or their government will create some kind of cover-up, their just primitive not stupid"

Dr. Bishop nodded and said "well I guess you're fine, everything is well reasoned, you didn't act out of misguided thoughts and didn't go overkill but just took care of the 'bad people', at least I assume there were no innocent casualties"

Daniel said "no the guys that knew everything and accepted to protect those people are just as guilty"

Dr. Bishop said "well, no analysis could be conclusive in 30 minutes and we should talk more in the future, but from what I got now I have not seen any signs that anything it's wrong, I'm more concerned with Tickles but after a successful soul sacrifice he will never be able to defy you so it's not really a problem"

the family around took a breath of relief, like some kind of weight was taken off their shoulder before Vincent asked "did you say that Tickles made a documentary?"

Daniel said "it's in the itchy, subsection Daniel's adventure, subsection films, there's a dozen of videos from the day me and Tickles met to the explosion of the unnamed desert planet"

Dr. bishop flinched and said "a planet exploded?"

Daniel replied "I'm innocent, the planet committed suicide, I reviewed the data after grandma told me, the hydrogen fusion generator was a total failure, I barely got a spark, it shouldn't have produced anything much less a sun but the planet thought otherwise"

Dr. Bishop coughed and said "well then, we can take a look at the documentaries"

Daniel nodded, but he wouldn't stay around to see the documentaries after living them, so he said "well, I'll leave you to it, good day"

soon later Dr. Bishop and the four specter family member were in front of the screen watching the documentaries while Daniel went back to work in the cloudtrain lab

the family and Dr. Bishop had just found themselves front-row seats to Daniel's life

the documentary was expertly edited and had a narrator with the same voice as the recorded message Tickles made

this gave Dr. Bishop a chance she rarely had before, she could literally witness the life of her patient, and as if it wasn't enough, the documentary was really well made

the five of them immediately got hooked and when they finished watching everything it was already the dawn of the next day

Dr. Bishop told the family that there were no reasons to be alarmed and that Daniel's moral compass was still straight

when Daniel came in for breakfast Dr. bishop asked for an itchy with the excuse of keeping in touch before leaving

then Daniel set his eyes on Vincent with an expecting gaze