George is an angel. He works in Soul Advancement Stage Four. His job is to monitor soul number 85. At any one time soul number 85 has between 1,000 -- 5,000 beings. During stage four souls inhabit beings that are self aware. Contrary to popular opinion on earth not all persons are self aware, or at least what angels recognize as self aware. George had advanced to his current position after what humans would call millennia of working in Soul Advancement Stage One, then Two, then Three, and now Four. However, that is not how the system really worked. Most humans would be mortified if they knew that they were just one of 5,000 people at a time with the same soul. Some souls seem to have developed a knack of seeking out and finding themselves in their other bodies frequently. Soul 85 is one of those souls. This kept George very busy. The phrase "go fuck yourself" is a big joke among the angels as that happens many times an hour on earth. Angels weren't concerned about all the self-fucking. The problem is when souls meet themselves they can begin to figure out the system. Mind you not all souls have the insight to begin to put the pieces together. Soul 85 is on the fringe of being able to figure the system out. Currently 85 was in 300 self-relationships. Most of them were friends, some of them were lovers or even married to themselves. Not all "pieces" of soul 85 were capable of the insight necessary to see the nature of reality. This made George's job a little easier.
Humans marveled when they just met someone and felt an instant connection. Lots of times it was because they were meeting another piece of themselves. Of course there were soulmates, those pairs of souls who kept finding each other over and over again. Soulmates were not the problem. In fact they were the solution to keep the problem from developing.
Angels like George worked to keep souls from putting the pieces together. If a soul ever figured out reality then reality would stop. To George this seamed like a really stupid way to set up the universe, but there you have it. It is just the way it is. Currently George's attention was on a pair of 85 who were close to realizing a previously unknown piece of the puzzle. Several pieces had already been figured out. Every angel knew that. The trick has always been knowing what was real and what was hogwash. Other angels had the job of Reality Disinformation. They whispered into the ears of governments and conspiracy theorists. The more people thought the conspiracy theorists were crazy the safer reality became. He hated to break up a pair of humans who were in love. It is just these two if they stayed together will solve a piece of the puzzle. George needed at least one soulmate for these two. Get them distracted enough from their brain games to make a mistake and not solve the puzzle. George went down the hall to Nan's office.
Hi, Nan. I need your help. A couple of my 85 are on the verge of discovering a piece.
Hey, George. Do you have a plan?
These two are married and working partners. They are scientists. I want to distract them. For that I need one or two of your 29. 85 and 29 have always been soulmates so we just need to get them in proximity. But we need the right pair of 29. My 85 are on the young side and attractive. One male and one female. Ideally a youngish male and female 29 would be able to confuse and distract the 85 enough to make mistakes in their research. To drop their current hypothesis for something new and totally not relevant to Reality.
Well George, believe it or not but none of 29 are anywhere near those two 85. If they are as close to discovery as you say, I think we will have to intervene directly. I like your plan. I will help you. If that is alright with you?
Nan, I didn't mean for us to get directly involved. (though even for an angel George was attracted to Nan. Too bad the plan would be for him to distract the female 85 and Nan to distract the male 85.)