Hello, I am a human being. I come from planet earth, 'The Home of Well-Established Facts of Dubious Accuracy'. Facts like: Space Aliens do not exist.

Everyone calls me Daddy-O. An anachronistic nickname I used on earth, which no alien has ever questioned.

On earth, I practiced a counter current philosophy. Watch what everyone else is doing and head in the opposite direction. Housing prices were peaking, so I made this my test case. Some years later, house prices were really down, and the economy tanked. I knew I was onto something.

When I got telephone calls to take out loans to go to school, I saw the next big fad and went opposite. The government was backing loans (loans that would never go away) to encourage college educations. I steered completely away and devoted myself to free online education. Knowledge without debt (but also without credentials).

Our society rewarded me by a job. My job came with a paper hat. I made coffee drinks in a large corporate organization with branches everywhere. I really was an earnest model worker. It paid the bills (barely) and I saw a cross section of life (a continuous source of people making mistakes). Occasionally, I would see good life choice results in others, which was nice. One day, I came to work and put on a paper hat that I had kept clean for a few days. A guy at work, that was quite a poor worker, told me they had given him a promotion. His first task was to let me know about downsizing. They fired me. He took my hat.

You cannot imagine the sheer joy of release. I had been idling in this job. Getting fired was welcome. That day, instead of making drinks, I was going to get to sit on a bench on a beautiful sunny day. I found a very nice bench and imagined what life was going give me next.

An older lady seated on the far side of the bench says: "I come to this bench every day. Someone sits down, and they tell me their problems. I spend the day with them and their problems are solved. It has been these ways for decades. Please tell me your problems."

I said, 'I do not have any problems, today is perfect. More perfect than could have imagined. You should take a day off. ; and she left. She appeared quite pleased to have a change of pace.

Not three minutes later, an alien materializes in front of me (in a small transparent module). They asked if I would agree to help them. So, you know, SURE WHY NOT. As you might imagine, I was not the one they wanted. They were planning to collect the older woman that solved problems.

That has been nearly a year now. I spend time travelling around this galaxy and sometimes to different planes. The sterilization process was quite unpleasant. They gave me a new advanced galactic translation system by injection. I became a local sensation, just for being myself.

I am married to an earthling that is not a human being. We have an adopted 'being" that also has earth origins. Nothing is ever simple. My wife had to watch her only surviving kin (all brothers to her) die, and she had to let them die. They were planning quite an awful war and had been using telekinesis to change her genes. They intended her to become a simple breeding object for their warrior race. When they died, they left her with nothing. Being a local sensation, I could give her a place to stay. It happened pretty fast, but I regret nothing.

I get asked to do all kinds of things that somehow make me even more popular. I am sure it has just mostly been luck. I create little chibi style avatars for the clients when I finish a report (those are popular). Very rarely, do I get smacked by an alien or get intimidated. My wife is a very advanced telepath with quite strong telekinesis, so there has been even less of getting rebuked lately.

Earthlings were saying that the universe is the plane we see, but the universe actually has many planes. The universe is an expanding sphere that is accelerating away. Planes (imagine them as parallel cross sections) are made sets of threads. There are over twenty types of thread. Planes with a few threads appear at the tops and bottoms. Planes with more threads are near the middle. It has something to do with how much 'pull' the threads need to achieve a planar substance. The planes in the middle have greater pull against the pinions of the universe.

The plane, we are on, got damaged; but that is not a problem I could image even trying to solve. My wife, also; it is just a problem too big for us.

Running across the parallel planes is a different type of plane. Dreamland, which cross sects most planes. Sprites rule dreamland. Sprites are about the size of a human tween girl (they also have a quasi-translucent white color); they also have four wings on the back and appear to fly mostly horizontally positioned.

Fear (intense, great fear) is the most common reaction to even the mention of the sprites. I recently saw a video of many big fearsome looking aliens, pouring out of a meeting room. Fleeing terrified in both directions down the corridors. A sprite had appeared.

So one last bit of information before I get tell you about my recent encounter. On planes with few threads to make up reality, sentient beings are delivered fully formed by the universe. It is common to find many beings on all kinds of planes. They call it 'universal delivery'.

The ability to have a biologic process create a grown sentience requires a reality built from numerous threads.

I had met sprites (briefly) during my honeymoon and when adopting our little one. A sprite appeared to me recently and told me they need me to do something. I was to meet a conqueror at a gate to dreamland. I was to tell them that the sprites were busy, off somewhere else doing something important.

They put me in a place that had very dream like properties. I stood on a rocky field that had a path that stretched in the very far distance. A high path of stone, narrow. There was not much visibility to see what was below if you fell. It was a gusty place.

Not too long later, I hear a voice 'Sprites I have come to vanquish your gates and take possession of the creation tools. It is I, the Heart of Ajs An'hlj'.

Daddy-O: "I am sorry, great conqueror. The Sprites are not here. They asked me to deliver that message to you."

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "What is this trickery? Do you think me a fool?"

The being appears to be half way down the path. Oddly the being ambles, yet traverses what appears to be a long distance.

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "Well, clearly. You are not a Sprite. You certainly do not have anywhere near the number of threads in your form that a sprite would have."

The Heart of Ajs An'hlj arrives where I am. The being is not taller that soles of my shoes. Some details on how this creature looked were clearer when it was farther away. I bend over to get a closer look.

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "Do you seek to intimidate me by looming and blocking view?"

Daddy-O: "I am sorry, great conqueror. I did not intend to limit you. They only asked me to meet you. May I try changing my position?"

Getting a yes, I laid down on the ground and put my hands to rest my head on. It got me a good view. It was a quite small biped, not enough to look human. Many aliens have this bipedal almost human look. It seemed to have many little objects on straps right at hand.

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "Hmm You would be no threat at all. Show me the gates."

Daddy-O: "I am sorry, great conqueror. I do not know where the gates are."

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "Yes, I see that you speak the truth. I too, do not see any gates. Well, how can this be? My battle has been foretold, it will be the crowning achievement of my reign."

The change in demeanor makes me curious. So I ask 'How would this have made your achievements complete?'

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "I have conquered all of my realm. Many have met me at my arrival, to surrender and praise my name. After this I was to go home where I was born. There was to be a party."

Daddy-O: "You traveled here. You confronted the delegate of the Sprites. That delegate had no wish to fight or stay your hand. Would that be enough? Would those at your home, enjoy the party any more if you bought something back?"

Heart of Ajs An'hlj: "Well, No. I challenged the Sprites as predicted, and they did nothing. Even a huge delegate of the Sprites declined to stay my hand. I will go home now. Your words have given me a new perspective, one I never considered until today."

As the Heart of Ajs An'hlj leaves, Daddy-O is returned to his home.

The Heart of Ajs An'hlj arrives to a party which is ready to begin. The exploits are told. Many write of them on paper rolls, and papers sent to all parts of this realm. At every telling anywhere the story arrives, there are cheers and joys.

They call the beings here Ajs An'hlj. They call their conqueror "Heart of Ajs An'hlj", and he is the first among their kind to be born. All others arrived by universal delivery. Arriving as adults with a fresh new life, but never experiencing childhood. From the days he spoke and more so when sentences were proclaimed; the Ajs An'hlj had been conquered. He was so adorable.

None ever denied that were vanquished on meeting him. The name "Heart of Ajs An'hlj" was simply a natural consequence.

The Heart of Ajs An'hlj had travelled for a thousand years in this waking cycle. He conquered all in this realm with their joy in seeing him. He had made it to the gates of dream land. There had been a time when the dreamland was available to any, just by sleeping. The damage to the universe had pushed the planes away. Dreamland no longer connected to this realm.

The Heart of Ajs An'hlj was laid into a royal napping bed. He could assimilate, the years of experience and recent events, biologically. It was something no Ajs An'hlj could experience in the quite same way.

When the Heart of Ajs An'hlj slept, all the realm gently rested. All wondered. What would the Heart of Ajs An'hlj do in the next waking cycle?