Author's notes:
This chapter have taken a long time to finish and I can only say that I'm sorry for that.
That is what happens when Real Life gets in the way of writing.
About the language and notation:
The Baylon language is a predecessor to Latin, which is why it looks like Latin at a glance.
Mental communication is denoted by a < and ends with a >, so a mental communication will look like this: "< Who are you? >"
Some warnings
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This is erotic action adventure, meaning that there will be both sex and violence, but I don't mix the two.
This story is posted on the Literotica website and the author does not give permission for it to be reposted or reprinted anywhere else without consent.
P.S. I haven't gotten an editor yet, so any mistakes are mine. Interested editors are welcome :)
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Chapter 35 -- Long distance call
Thursday, 6th of July 2000, the Atlantic Ocean
Despite Captain Wolf's concern about the weather, the first days of the trip across the Atlantic went without a hitch. The weather was excellent, we had favourable winds all the way and Dream Weaver proved to be just as fast and stable in open water as it had been on the coastal trip from Malaga to the Canary Islands.
I enjoyed it tremendously. With all the things that had happened since I woke up, it was good to be able to just lean back and appreciate the smooth ride, while learning a few new things about sailing a modern ship and using most evenings to search my stolen memories to see what Parker had been doing in Spain.
The answer had been both straight forward and strange at the same time: Parker was searching for the recipe for a potion, that would rejuvenate him, giving him back his youth, as his plan on ruling the world didn't mean much, if he would die of old age within ten or twenty years after achieving it.
However, one of the artworks he had stolen over the years was an old book, describing the life of an alchemist named Ferdinand Hayan, who had been hundreds of years old, but looked to be thirty due to a secret potion he had taken. Just as important was a passage in the book, saying that Ferdinand Hayan had inscribed the recipe on the wall of an old building near his home.
Another book, written a few hundred years later, described how another alchemist who had found Ferdinand Hayan's recipe and made the potion, but couldn't get it to work because it had lacked one ingredient, as it should be mixed with 'good will of the soul'.
Parker had a theory that 'good will of the soul' wasn't an ingredient, but mental powers, and was sure that he could get the potion to work.
Ferdinand Hayan had lived somewhere in the Malaga area, and as Parker been too paranoid to let others do the research for him, he had spent a lot of time and resources looking for the house with the recipe there.
I had used some time to consider that. Far out as it sounded, there was a very slim and remote possibility, that Parker had been on to something, but that would depend on several conditions, some of which required timing. The potion had to have a composition like the peaches from the garden of the Queen of the West. That was difficult enough in itself and would require some human magic. In addition to that, rejuvenation required a huge amount of power, but as I had witnessed, Malaga had a seasonal Leyline, so if the potion was taken on the beach during the summer solstice or in the hills a few days earlier, it might actually work.
Parker haven't known about the Leylines, but he had been so sure that he would find the recipe and get the potion to work, that he had meticulously planned and prepared how he could take over his own company: He could go away, take the potion, and come back as his own nephew, leaving time enough get a plastic operation (whatever that was) to change his appearance. This would enable him to change identity, while retaining control of everything he owned, as he became the heir to his own empire.
The plan was so good, that I had decided to use it to take over the company, by simply taking the identity of the unnamed nephew, and then follow the rest of the plan with a few additions, mostly with the aim of transferring the focus of the loyalty granted by Parkers loyalty codex from him to me.
The reason for that was more one of necessity, than anything else. The loyalty codex of the board members was keyed to Parker and if they haven't seen him for a year, it would dissolve, releasing its energy into the brain of the victim, frying the brain, and killing them.
Considering that the Interpol would was unlikely to release Parker within a year, that was a problem I needed to address before people started to die, so I needed to find and transfer their loyalty to me before it was too late.
Using Parkers own plan wasn't ideal, but it was the easiest way to do it and while using Parker's loyalty codex for my own gain didn't set well with me, I didn't really have any options, that didn't involve just letting people die.
Of cause, if I really wanted it, I could do it without using Parker's plan and the identity of the nephew, but Parker had set it all up so there would be minimal problems with the law, and not taking advantage of that was just dumb. Especially since I operated in a world, I knew very little about.
So, when we reached the Island of Oldenburg, where the company headquarter was located, Captain Wolf would request that the Managing Director met us at the docks. Then I could transfer his loyalty from Parker to me, ensuring me access to the rest of the members of the Board of Directors, so I could transfer their loyalty as well.
Sighing, I stretched. At some point I would have to come up with a way to change the parameters of the mind-control, so I could transfer the loyalty to somebody else than me or change the time limit to more than a year, but I simply didn't have the time. According to his own memories, Parker had been away for months already, cutting into the time I had to fix the problem. Parker might have used modern technology to meet the people he had mind-controlled, but before I had transferred their loyalty to me, I had to meet them in person to renew the time limit.
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"I think I'm suffering from culture shock." Commented Ester with a little smile, as we were all sitting around the great table on the aft deck, eating dinner. "In just two months, I've gone from being a member of a counter-terrorist unit, to become a prisoner, to end up sitting on a luxury yacht, eating a delicious meal in the most luxurious surroundings I have ever experienced."