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  Despite his small body that could hardly be seen from behind the piano, he release his thundering shout and pushed the piano with one hand as if throwing a toy he did not like, and his other arm wrapped around Jumana… half a ton of maple wood flipped and slid towards the bomber creating a protective wall that only lasted for an instant before shattering under the pressure of the explosion adding its debris to the killer shrapnel heading towards Jumana and Elyaseen… but it was too late. In the fraction of the second following Elyaseen’s shout both his body and Jumara’s were no were to be found!

  The explosion pushed Sawsan and Maram’s bodies while Hawjan and Jumara instinctively returned to the jinn dimension, softening the blow on their bodies, while the leather seats absorbed Sawsan’s impact, Maram however was the least fortunate of them all, she slammed into the wall cutting her head and fell into her own blood; the electricity went out and darkness engulfed everything save for some spots where small fires started. Jumara was screaming hysterically as she searched for Elyaseen amongst the tenants who piled frantically at the doorway trying to save their skin, her heart was torn as she searched both universes; Hawjan almost pursued her had it not been for the solders in heat resistant black suits storming the lobby, wearing masks with scopes allowing them to see through the smoke and darkness that engulfed the place; they ascended from lobby’s glass dome dangling on ropes with hooks and moved towards their specific targets: Sawsan and Maram.

  There were five solders, each carrying a leather bag on his shoulder, the spread around the lobby to specific locations and emptied the bags. Five bodies… two men, two ladies and a child. That was what was in those bags, five bodies to elude investigators to think that they were Eyad, Husam, Sawsan, Maram and Jumana.

  They placed the bodies in perfectly calculated possessions, and one of them went to Maram to inspect her and properly ID her before he carried her on his shoulder and run towards a hook that he attached to his belt and ascend back to where he came from. Hawjan did not comprehend what was going on, but he did know that those masked men were not here to save them. Although he had exhausted his energy by materializing in the human world for several hours, he summoned up his strength and rushed behind the man carrying Maram, he materialized for a moment and threw his fest towards the mans scope and with his other hand detached the mans hook from his belt, he then caught Maram’s falling body bringing her down softly onto one of the chairs while the marble floor slammed into the falling solder who fell more than ten meters. The solders panicked for a few seconds then went back to finishing their mission.

  Another approached Sawsan who started to regain her consciousness and coughed because of the smoke, but before he reached her, Hawjan grabbed on to his nick and removed his protective mask, the solder fell in panic and the others realized they were facing an unseen adversary, the solders rushed to carry their fallen comrades and fled through the same way they came in before the Frensh emergency forces arrived.

  Hawjan came close to Sawsan and whispered in here ear:

  “Sawsan… Sawsan! Stay awake… I must possess you!”

  *****

  A free fall is simply stopping the jets turning a plane from a flying machine into a chunk of metal heading at top speeds towards land. The plane suddenly changed direction and started its journey in a sharp angel, Eyad lost his balance and momentum pushed him towards the end of the plane had it not been for Husam’s grip that reached out to catch him after he had put on the parachute, Husam was holding on to the edge of the door opening with one arm and pulling Eyad with the other. His muscles and arm nerves almost ripped as he pulled Eyad in clear defiance of the laws of gravity, momentum and acceleration… and he made it! Eyad held onto the edge of the doorway and used all of his strength to push himself through it while the altitude counter on the plane was dropping frantically from ten thousand feet… to five thousand feet… to one thousand feet… Husam made his choice, he will get Eyad back to Sawsan and Jumana, and he will get back here… to me.

  Husam’s fingers let go of the doorway’s edge so that he would free fall with the plane forcing Eyad to save his own life, but Eyad refused Husam decision, although he might have to pay his own life as a price for that refusal! But he held on to Husam with all his might before he got away into the plane, and opened the parachute and it pulled them back with so much force that it pulled both of them out while ripping some of Eyad’s arm muscles who refused to let go of Husam… But… the parachute opened when they were merely two hundred feet above see level, such height was not enough for the parachute to soften the fall of one person… let alone two.

  As the plane crashed on the rocks of the coastal line on Haifa, the waves slammed into Eyad and Husam to soften the fall and increase the chances of their survival… so slightly.

  *****

  Souls know each other, the get familiar, and close to one another in its higher dimension, ignoring all the constraints enforced upon them by the materialistic universes… and the bond between Sawsan and Hawjan’s souls allowed her to respond to him easily despite her fatigue, fear and anxiety, she was slowly slipping away as a result of all the smoke she inhaled, yet she understood what Hawjan was asking of her and nodded in approval, a few seconds later Hawjan was in control of her body and she jumped up on her feet as if she had suddenly regained her health, she carried Maram easily in her arms and rushed out behind those who were fleeing the hotel, they did not need the siren that started when the fire did, fore the explosion was enough to wake them all and spread fear in everyone’s hearts, security forces and medical personal scattered everywhere, Hawjan pushed Sawsan’s body as she carried Maram towards the paramedics who toke her to an ambulance and tried to stop Sawsan to check her, but Hawjan was so worried for Elyaseen and Jumana, he looks around through Sawsan’s eyes in the material world and through his in the jinn world… until he glanced Jumana sitting on the still of an old building across the street and next to her was Jumara hugging Elyaseen.

  He crossed the street quickly and carried Jumana and called out to Jumara who was in the jinn dimension to carry Elyaseen and follow him, then he head towards the nearest ambulance and let go of Sawsan’s body, she collapsed in front of the paramedics who hurried towards her and carried her with Jumana and raced towards the hospital without noticing that there was a jinni along with his wife and child accompanying them.

  “Hawjan, what happened?!”

  Whispered Jumara as she held Elyaseen tight, as if the paramedics who sat next to them could actually hear voices from the jinn dimension; Hawjan responded:

  “I do not know, what is important is that we were blessed by God and that we are all still alive”

  “What religion or what denomination asks one to blow himself up and kill innocent people?!”

  “Rotten politics!”

  “Huh!”

  “Rotten politics is the only religion that could convince someone that God promised criminals and atrocious tugs with paradise and rivers of wine”

  He pat Elyaseen’s head who had slept innocently in his mother’s arms and went on:

  “My heart almost stopped in fear for his life, I can’t believe how a child of his age was able to move this fast to another dimension and take along a human!”

  He looked at Jumana who had leaned her head on the paramedic’s shoulder sitting next to her and then turned to Jumara:

  “Look at your body, all the bruises, look at my nick and hands and how they are bleeding, all of this happened to us even though we were in the jinn dimension!”

  She checked Jumana and Elyaseen and shared his astonishment:

  “Elyaseen and Jumana did not get affected at all!”

  Her arms held tighter onto Elyaseen, and almost did not hear Hawjan as he said:

  “Our son carries all of our ancestors’ powers, he can move humans to the jinn dimension without affecting their bodies!”

  *****

  Binyameen’s arms was digging through the pool’s water for two hours straight prope
lling his thin muscular body like a torpedo oscillating between the two ends. The oval pool occupied most of his office that only had a single black leather seat next to a small glass table where his glasses rested next to a black chess knight adorned with engravings that blended the art forms from several civilizations from European history wrapped from its base with a leather thread. Elyana softly knocked the door and Binyameen shouted in clear annoyance:

  “Come in Elyana”

  Elyana quietly came in and placed the towel she was carrying on the chair:

  “Mr. Binyameen, the meeting will start in five minutes”

  “Damn it!”

  Binyameen gracefully jumped out of the pool ignoring the metal ladder on its edge, and placed the towel on his shoulder and used part of it to wipe the drops off of his bionic eye’s lens before picking up his glasses and hanged the chess knight around his neck and moved towards the door, Elyana yelled:

  “Mr. Binyameen, I have prepared the appropriate suit for the meeting”

  “This towel is more than appropriate!”

  She followed him without objection, he exited his office that was located at the secrete “Future Israel” unit that was established by the joint efforts of the Israeli Armed Forces, Israeli Security Agency “Shabak”, Israeli Intelligence Agency “Mossad” and The Congregation Beth Israel some time by the end of 2012, its secrete location housed a number of units hidden beneath lake Tiberias and in the heart of Mount Arbel that over looked it. What brought members of Future Israel together was fanatic Right-wing extremism coated in the media with some peace and democratic slogans. All of them, aside for Binyameen, served in the Israeli Armed Forces before there were assigned prestigious and sensitive positions at the Knesset and Israeli ministries. Binyameen sat in a capsule that rocketed through a tunnel impaling the mountain towards the central unit while Elyana was setting next to him torn with anxiety:

  “Mr. Binyameen, you are killing yourself! You did not sleep since we started this mission”

  “Did you?”

  “Only a few hours passed since we got back to Israel, you should have…”

  He cut her off with such shattering decisiveness:

  “Elyana… please stop playing my mother’s role, tell me who will be attending the meeting?”

  She collected herself and answered in a formal tone:

  “Yuval, Nafttali, Danny and Rabbi Eliyahu”

  Binyameen cut her off:

  “A choir of thugs… what about Tzipi?”

  “Tzipi will head the meeting, she is pissed, really pissed”

  Elyana ignored formality and held his hand begging:

  “Binyameen… Please… Don’t be reckless!”

  “As you wish”

  Although he was curtly, she still smiled happily, but her smile vanished when he continued mockingly:

  “Mother!”

  Binyameen entered the meeting room barefooted and the pool’s remaining water stamped his footsteps on the black marble floor, he sat in his chair around the hexagonal table without greeting any of those around it, he raised his feet on top of the table and said as he wiped his ear with hit towel and rubbed his toes together in everyone’s face:

  “Sorry for the delay gentlemen, as you can see, I had to come back from France swimming”

  “I hope you have brought with you what would justify wasting fifty million shekels in just two days!”

  Said Yuval, who was a veteran that had headed several Israeli ministries, in a calm tone that could barely hide his anger, Binyameen replied mockingly:

  “I had sent you a detailed report, did you not read it?!”

  Danny, who held several top positions in different Israeli ministries, lost his temper as he shouted:

  “All you sent were five words: Plane crashed, no casualties… you call that a report?!”

  “Obviously Mr. Danny, my mission was to bring Eyad and Husam, and they are both now receiving care at our medical facility… as for the plane crash, it was part of the mission, I know very well that I had spent sixty two million, two hundred and eighteen thousand, four hundred and twenty one shekels from the project’s budget that will not be depleted until I achieve the required results”

  “Huh… Results…!”

  Said Danny in frustration, Binyameen responded:

  “Yes Mr. Danny results. Did you get any results? You insisted on bringing the two girls and the child despite my warnings, and all you brought back were the bodies of two mercenaries and a media storm on all news channels and global newspapers in addition to embarrassing Israel’s government with the Frensh!”

  Danny’s furiosity multiples as he justified:

  “Our government was never involved! The entire operation was done under the cover of an Islamic fanatic bomber”

  “My dear sir the Frensh government is not so naïve, and the vail of Islamic fanatic groups only works in movies from the nineties! Everyone knows that their leaders are part of your congregations! In any case, you still did not answer me: Did you achieve your heroic objective? Were you able to bring the two girls and the child Mr. Danny?”

  Nafttali jumped in to save Danny:

  “And you nearly killed tens of lives, but luckily the plane crashed in an uninhabited part of Haifa’s coastline!”

  “I know the exact coordinates where the plane had crashed, the probability of someone being there at the moment it crashed was less than tenth of a percent, I would say that was a pretty good chance to take”

  Binyameen’s cold and precise auto tone answers were driving everyone crazy… Except for Tzipi who leaned her chin on her palms without commenting.

  “True you only risked the lives of two gentiles”

  That was Rabbi Eliyahu interrupting the conversation with a serious tone from behind his hat, glasses and thick beard, Binyameen sharply turned to him as he said:

  “Humans are humans dear Rabbi! We don’t need your Talmudic myths!”

  “Binyameen beware! You are mocking our religious absolutes!”

  “You call those myths and erratic raciest abominations that were fabricated by your ancestral Rabies as a result of a prosecution complex during the Babylon enslavement and attributed to their god a religion?! Sorry, but anyone one who believes that the creator of the universe is this racist and heartless is not worthy calling himself human, let alone the God of humanity!”

  The Rabbi’s face turned red as he started shouting:

  “How dare you?! Do you not know the punishment of those who disrespect a Rabbi?”

  “(Whoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hell) Erubin 21b. Do you need me to recite the rest of the scripture that your ancestors made up to set themselves as guardians over humanity under the pretext that they represented the divine on earth?”

  Nafttali shouted in defense of his teacher Rabbi Eliyahu:

  “You have crossed all limits! Clearly you are an enemy of Judaism and an anti-Semite!”

  Binyameen let go of a provocative laugh:

  “If Sam saw you, he would have spat on you! Surly I am an enemy of every distasteful teaching! I am the enemy of the repulsive Zionism! It repulses me as do millions of honorable Jews. Tell me what do the Khazars and the Ashkenazi have to do with Sam and the sons of Israel?!”

  “Enough!”

  Was the first word that Tzipi uttered, it was enough to silence everyone, the meeting room went calm for several moments, only disturbed but the muttering of the Rabbi upset by the enormity of what he had heard from Binyameen.

  Tzipi cut through the vail of silence that she had casted and said with clear boredom:

  “I have no time for your boyish battles! Binyameen get to the heart of the matter!”

  Binyameen signaled Elyana who stood behind him, she moved her fingers over her tablet and an image appeared on the large screen in front of Tzipi and the small screens in front of each of the attendees, an image of Solomon’s Temple, and Binyameen started to explain:

 
“You know the Temple…”

  “My mother’s Temple”

  Whispered Danny mockingly, Binyameen ignored him and continued:

  “From this Temple three millenniums ago King Solomon ruled the world, he had wielded all the material and scientific resources to unit universes, but greed exploded after his death and his kingdom was lost and the sons of Israel were scattered, and more importantly the most precious treasure of them all was lost… Science”

  “Any kid in Israel knows this history”

  Said Nafttali in objection, but Yuval who seemed more interested insisted:

  “Go on Binyameen, but please be quick”

  Binyameen gestured to Elyana to change the image and a barbaric image of Crusaders slaughtering people and their red blood mixed with the red crosses embroidered on their white vests, Binyameen continued:

  “And none of the science of the Kingdom of Solomon reappeared until a bunch of crusader mercenaries calling themselves the Templar dug up the ruins and excavated the Zohar and Kabbalah manuscripts, they took it back to Europe after Saladin kicked them out, Rabbis of the Ashkenazi Jews deciphered them and that was the beginning of the catastrophe”

  “We are wasting our time listening to this one-eyed abomination”

  Said Danny in clear distaste, Binyameen addressed him:

  “A brotherly piece of advice, never call me one-eyes, don’t forget this single eyed man is the man who helped Israel lead the world in Quantum Neural Decoding and succeeded in decoding, analyzing, programing and retransmitting neural commands so accurately that it is indistinguishable from the brain, I lost my sight and was able to create a bionic eye… I hope you are as fortunate and can create a bionic brain to use”