Notes - think on it, boy /

         Mid-morning. A light dry snow is falling – a dusting. Carol is working on a second load of washing; she also awoke before you and brought in the paper as you were walking downstairs.

         Evening. You both spent the afternoon inside with the aroma of chili cooking on the stove. You watched last night’s Masterpiece Classic and Mystery as well as one “CSI” and the news. Jared and his son cleaned your driveway at dusk. You were just looking at Pouch Eight and realize you need to have a good reason for Ship to land the Earthlings at Stonehouse, something plausible but serendipitous at the same time. Later. – Amorella

         2012 hours. What comes to mind is Ship and Onesixanzero and Drenakite the Cleric have a part in it.

         How about Drenakite setting it up to appear serendipitous? – Amorella

         2016 hours. What would be her intention?

         To have everyone near her control. This plan is for the best of intentions for the health security of ThreePlanets. She is concerned first about a plague, one that could come from digging up the remains of Elderfelder the Dancer. She is not concerned about Godofamily’s wrath because she has no reason. Days of fearing Godofamily have long passed. Her concern is science and the exploration of the otherwise unknown secret channels within dark matter (the working beacon left between Earth and ThreePlanets), those aspects Yermey is working on with Ship and Onesixanzero. She wonders that a part of this secret travel channel is connected to Stonehouse in some way not understood by physics. Nothing supernatural mind you, a kind of warping – even the thought that there is an invisible ‘line of communication’ between Earth and ThreePlanets – a quantum connection, of sorts; a entanglement of higher consciousness that would allow such a scientific rather than metaphysical connection between the souls of the marsupial humanoids and the homo sapiens – a preternatural connection, at least from Drenakite’s perspective. - Amorella

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The preternatural

The preternatural or praeternatural is that which appears outside or beside (Latin praeter) the natural. In contrast to the supernatural, preternatural phenomena are presumed to have explanations that are unknown. It is "suspended between the mundane and the miraculous".

In theology, the term is often used to distinguish marvels or deceptive trickery, often attributed to witchcraft or demons, from the purely divine power of the genuinely supernatural to violate the laws of nature. In the early modern period the term was used by scientists to refer to abnormalities and strange phenomena of various kinds that seemed to depart from the norms of nature.

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With the emergence of early modern science, the concept of the preternatural increasingly came to be used to refer to strange or abnormal phenomena that seemed to violate the normal working of nature, but which were not associated with magic and witchcraft. This was a development of the idea that preternatural phenomena were fake miracles. As Daston puts it, "To simplify the historical sequence somewhat: first, preternatural phenomena were demonized and thereby incidentally naturalized; then the demons were deleted, leaving only the natural causes." The use of the term was especially common in medicine, for example in John Brown's A Compleat Treatise of Preternatural Tumours (1678), or William Smellie’s A Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in Midwifery (1754).

In the 19th century the term was appropriated in anthropology to refer to folk beliefs about fairies, trolls and other such creatures which were not thought of as demonic, but which were perceived to affect the natural world in unpredictable ways. According to Thorstein Veblen, such preternatural agents were often thought of as forces somewhere between supernatural beings and material processes. "The preternatural agency is not necessarily conceived to be a personal agent in the full sense, but it is an agency which partakes of the attributes of personality to the extent of somewhat arbitrarily influencing the outcome of any enterprise, and especially of any contest."

The linguistic association between individual agents and unexplained or unfortunate circumstances remains. Many people attribute occurrences that are known to be material processes, such as "gremlins in the engine", a "ghost in the machine", or attributing motives to objects: "the clouds are threatening". The anthropomorphism in our daily life is a combination of the above cultural stems, as well as the manifestation of our pattern-projecting minds.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia - preternatural

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         2040 hours. I like this Amorella. I had no idea what to do.

         You set up the character to be in motion. Relax. Think on this. I like the possibilities. – Amorella

         2041 hours. I would have never seen these connections back to the beacon and Yermey no less. Ship and Onesixanzero were already on the project but it is for a cleaner, safer, more efficient way to move from point A to point B. I can see a holy figure such as the Cleric looking at this ‘roadway’ from the soul’s ‘roadway so to speak but in the realm of science not metaphysics. Drenakite is more beholden to science and keeping Godofamily a safe respectful distance away. I really like this concept. It fits right in my head. 

         Good, you think on it, boy. Post. - Amorella

         Thank you, Amorella.