The Symbiotic Travelers Ch. 02

The symbiotic Travelers

Welcome to Earth

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"Wake up, James Ridley, it's time to start our new life here in the township of Roxbury in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. We're citizens of England now." Yaphet shook her extraterrestrial mate with a smile. She is happy with her new life and her new name, Julia Sandra Starman. She also likes the idea that she is the "wife" of her male consort, James Ridley Starman. The two syngeneic beings are adjusting to their new life on Earth. They have learned that husbands and wives on Earth sleep in the same bed together.

They both believe that's great; it will make it easier for them to hide their sleeping routine. But they have also come to understand that Earthlings, unlike Yaphet and Zlatex, don't always have sex when they sleep together and when they do have sex, the males of this planet don't stay erect after they ejaculate.

Also, they sleep fully clothed! They wear what they call nightgowns. They remove the clothing that they wear during the day and put on bedclothes that extend from their shoulders to their feet. Sometimes these Earthlings even wear socks and nightcaps to bed!

When Yaphet and Zlatex go to bed every night, they are both completely naked. Most of the time he removes all her clothing, and she strips him of everything he is wearing. They kiss, fondle and caress each other's bodies in all their erogenous zones while doing so. As soon as he is erect, he enters her. They stay united that way all night until they wake up the next morning. Then they frequently make passionate love. A male Herthian does not lose his erection, but continues to eject semen into his female counterpart, giving them both numerous orgasms the whole time they are joined. Additionally, a Herthian female receives climax from the stimulation of her clitoris, from the lips of her vagina, from her vaginal wall, from massaging her mons pubis and merely from receiving ejaculate from her male symbiotic partner. She has these copious orgasms every time she has sex with him, not just sometimes as it is with many Earth women.

Usually, when they are bonded together, the two syngeneic aliens lie side by side, facing each other, kissing and hugging, touching and feeling, groping and fingering. But other times they use different positions, with him on top, with her on top or with him entering her from behind. Frequently, before they join together and in order to enhance their love making, they orally stimulate each other's sex, kissing, licking and sucking each other.

Moreover, he often assumes a domineering role and spanks her naked ass with a belt or paddle as a form of foreplay before they unite. Sometimes, he binds her with cotton rope, chain or other erotic device, or he puts serrated clamps on her nipples and her clitoris that they keep among their personal sex toys. Although sometimes they reverse characters; she takes the dominant position, and he plays the submissive role. Both masochistic actions extend and augment their orgasms. Over the past several months, they have come to realize that Earthlings living at this time do not indulge in these types of sex games. At least, they don't publicly admit to doing it.

Further, the females of Earth produce an egg for fertilization every month. They can get pregnant almost all the time; they have virtually no control over it. And they can have numerous children, most of whom are not twins. However, an adult Herthian female cannot get pregnant until she wants to; she has to consciously will ovulation.

While naked and sitting comfortably or lying down and masturbating, ordinarily with her vibrator, she has to meditate on a sexual or very pleasurable experience she has had. After her orgasm, if she doesn't wash her vaginal opening of the secretions and other fluids produced by her body, her menstrual cycle begins about an hour after her climax. Not only that, she can only get pregnant twice. After selecting a suitable mate, she copulates with him. Each pregnancy produces fraternal twins, a symbiotic male and female. After her second pregnancy, a Herthian female is infertile. Also, unlike children on Earth, all Herthian children are immune to disease and will live to reach adulthood unless an accident kills them.

Yaphet and Zlatex learned about human sexual activity working at Pierre's Liberty Tavern in Roxbury, a small township near the city of Boston. Zlatex tends to the bar there while Yaphet waits on the tables. Some of the patrons bragged to her partner of their sexual conquest. Several of them also attempted to grope her, but she fended them off. A couple of others tried to get her to have sex with them. She pointed to her male equivalent and answered each of them that they would have to get permission from her husband. After that, they left her alone.

For some reason, females of Roxbury do not visit the pub, only males and they mostly talk about political subjects and what they read in the weekly, four page newspaper, the Boston Gazette.

In the evening hours and when it gets too crowded, Pierre, the owner, will come in to help James tend the bar. The pub was originally called King's Tavern; owned by a Loyalist who inherited the bar from his British father, a widower with the surname of King. The Loyalist mysteriously disappeared one evening and was never seen again; his wife left town to go live in Quebec with her lover. His only child and daughter hired Pierre's father, a Frenchman, to manage the establishment; they got married about a year later after she turned seventeen. When he was killed in the French and Indian War, Pierre took control of it. After his mother died, he changed the name to Pierre's Liberty Tavern.

He renamed it this because he wanted to be free of all British involvement in the affairs of the American Colonies. Except for his mother, he doesn't like the English, mainly because they murdered his father in the Battle of Jumonville Glen on May 28, 1754, the opening battle of the war. His secondary reason is because he believes that the American Colonies should come together and form their own nation. His third reason for renaming his tavern is because all his customers also believe that the colonies should be free of English rule.

The French and Indian War began with a dispute between the British and French over control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at the site of the French Fort Duquesne. Between 1758 and 1760, the British military launched a campaign to capture French Canada. They succeeded in capturing territory in the surrounding colonies and eventually the city of Quebec in 1759. The next year the British were victorious in their Montreal Campaign, whereby the French ceded Canada to England.

A young British officer, Colonel George Washington led the Battle of Jumonville Glen and participated in the Battle of the Monongahela River, eventually assuming command of the English forces after his superior officer was mortally wounded in the battle.

When the war ended, in accordance with the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France surrendered all its territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain. The United Kingdom also gained control of Florida. However, the Isle of Orleans, which is on the east side of the river, and the entire Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi, France had already transferred to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau in 1762. As a result, France was essentially removed from the New World.

Soon after the French and Indian War was over, the English Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765. The purpose of the tax was to pay for the cost of the conflict and to financially support British military troops stationed in the American Colonies after the war. It imposed a direct tax on the colonists and required that all printed materials in the colonies had to be produced on special paper, which contained an embossed stamp. The printed materials included newspapers and pamphlets, all legal documents and notices and many other types of legal papers used throughout the colonies. Further, the tax had to be paid with British currency, not colonial paper money.

The Stamp Act was very unpopular among colonists. A majority of citizens considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent. It was the origin of the phrase, "no taxation without representation." Pierre even had the phrase carved into a wooden plaque above the bar.

Yaphet and Zlatex learned all this from the various patrons who visited Pierre's Tavern.

They want to keep SAM, the Simplified Automatic Mainframe computer processor, updated, so each morning, after they eat breakfast, they remove the central processing unit and the rechargeable battery from the trunk in which they keep them hidden. They place the battery in the sunlight near the window of their apartment and connect the two with the electrical cord. Then using their personal mobile handheld communicators, they enter everything they have learned about the fauna, the flora and the geology of Earth and the behaviors of its inhabitants, including their historical events, inventions and both geographic and scientific discoveries. The two aliens also enter into SAM what they learn about Earthlings religious, political and philosophical beliefs.

Since they have been using English when speaking to each other since arriving here over a year ago, they are also "teaching" SAM to understand and speak English.

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"What time is it? Let me sleep a few more minutes, please Yaphet." He covers his head with a pillow.

"Don't call me that. Remember, I'm Julia Sandra. If you call me by my birth name people will get suspicious."

"OK Julia but let me lie here in bed just a few more minutes."

"Good enough, I'll fry you some eggs and bacon."

"Great! I'll be up before you finish cooking it. I promise."

After breakfast and before they go to work, the two syngeneic beings sometimes go to the town square to get the news of the day from the men gathered there. The tavern doesn't open until about three o'clock. Today, that's another four hours away. They use the time to get acquainted with their new life as Earthlings. They talk to the inhabitants, socialize with them and shop in their stores. If it's a Monday, they also get a copy of the local newspaper, the Boston Gazette, to read.

It is September 13, 1766, their eighth month of living as husband and wife on Earth, their adopted home. Over the last several months, the two symbiotic travelers have learned much about the new world in which they now live.

The two extraterrestrial lovers have ascertained that the colonists are divided. Some of them support Great Britain, Parliament and King George III, calling themselves Loyalists. While the majority of the others believe that they should have more autonomy and authority over which laws they have to obey. They say that since England is on the other side of the world, and the people there have no idea about life here in the colonies, then that should be the deciding factor in making the laws. They call themselves Patriots.

Today, everyone in the town square is talking about the hated Stamp Act of 1765; it has finally been repealed. But they are also debating the influence of the Declaratory Act, which was passed this previous March when the Stamp Act was repealed. It states that the Parliament's authority is the same in America as it is in all of the United Kingdom. It further asserts that Parliament has the authority to pass laws that are binding on the American Colonies.

"Good afternoon young man. I often see you and your Missus here in the town square. But I never see you take part in any of the discussions. Why not? You're not a Loyalist, are you?"

"We don't get involved in American politics," Julia answers the middle aged gentleman.

Ignoring her, he retorts, "You always let your Missus do your talking for you, young man. My Missus stays home where a wife belongs, cooking, washing the clothes, keeping my house clean and looking after my six young'uns."

"She sometimes forgets herself," James immediately responds. He then gives Yaphet a quick glance that clearly tells her to remember that Earthling women do not publicly express political sentiments. Realizing her mistake in openly stating a political opinion, she does not reply, but immediately bows her head in quiet submission, while silently cursing the ignorant, chauvinistic belief. It's a custom that neither she nor her Herthian counterpart believe in or observe when they are alone.

"No," James continues. "I'm not a Loyalist; I'm a true Patriot. In fact, I tend the bar at Pierre's Liberty Tavern. My Missus waits on the tables there."

"I've never been there. You got any children of your own?"

"No, I have tried though. I guess the Missus is barren." He does not tell the man that he and Yaphet have decided not to have children until they get settled and learn more about the Americans and their way of life.

"Where you from?"

"You ask a lot of questions, don't you?"

"I'm just trying to be friendly."

"Julia and I are originally from Cuba. Her parents are Hispanic, and my parents are both French. After we got married, we moved to New Orleans. But after living there a couple of years we came to Boston. We both consider ourselves to be Americans. As for the Stamp Act and the Declaratory Act, my wife and I are against both. We think the colonies should be self-governed and the colonial legislatures should determine what taxes we should pay."

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James and the middle aged man continued to talk politics for over an hour, while his syngeneic equivalent, Yaphet, stood by and dutifully listened in silence. Those who visited the town square always discussed the issues that the colonists deemed relevant. Over the next couple of weeks, the man introduced James to his friends, without ever mentioning Julia. He treated her as though she didn't exist, because according to him, "a woman's place is in the home, not the town square discussing politics."

After each town square visit, the two symbiotic beings would return to their room above the tavern to read their newspaper if they purchased one and discuss among themselves what they learned. When the two aliens finish eating their lunch, they go to work in the pub.

Most of the time there are no problems with the customers. They sit and quietly drink their ale or brandy, discuss current events with friends and acquaintances or they play darts or ninepins. Often, the loser has to pay for a round of drinks. But occasionally a patron will have a few too many drinks. At such times, James always handles the problem diplomatically.

"I agree with Pierre," a drunken man at the bar shouts out to nobody in particular. "We colonists should not have to pay taxes if we are not represented in Parliament." He has been sitting at the bar drinking ale for several hours. He comes to the tavern about once or twice a week, has a few glasses of ale and then leaves. Today he seems very despondent for some reason. He has drunk numerous glasses of ale.

"Don't you think you've had enough," James quietly asks him. "You seem to be depressed about something. Why don't you go home, sleep it off and come again another time when you're feeling better?"

"I can't go home. I was living with my younger brother. But he caught me peeking at him and his wife while they were doing their thing. He kicked me out. He threw my clothes into the street. He told me I couldn't live there any longer. So, I can't go home because I got no home to go to."

"Well, you can't stay here. Pierre has told me that I am not to serve anyone who is drunk. You're drunk. If you don't leave, then I'll have to escort you out and I really do not want to do that."

"Can I have just one more glass of ale?"

"No, you cannot. Now, are you going to leave or do I have to throw you out?"

The drunken customer attempts to get up from his seat but falls to the floor. When he tries to get up, he falls again. Julia then helps him to his feet and ushers him, staggering to the front door of the tavern. As soon as he is outside, he throws up all over the wooden porch. Then he stumbles into the street only to fall down again. He lay there sleeping until long after sunset. Then he got up and walked toward the livery stables at the end of the road, presumable to sleep there. Meanwhile, Julia washed the puke off the walkway, throwing a bucket of water onto it.

James continued to tend bar at Pierre's and Julia waited on the tables there. But they didn't go to the town square every day. Mainly because they didn't want to get involved in the political discussions of those who did attend. They only went periodically, just to keep up appearances and on Mondays to purchase a newspaper. Whenever James said anything, he was always careful not to say anything that might reveal that they are not human. They are astronauts from another planet, a planet that was engulfed by its exploding star. He was also careful not to express any strong opinions about the prevalent political atmosphere. He just confirmed his status as a Patriot and declared that the colonists should not be taxed without representation in Parliament.

No one questioned why Julia was always with James. He did not reveal that they are symbiotic consorts who cannot be separated more than about ten meters from each other. He told everyone that she just enjoys listening to their debates, that she agreed with them and their grievances against Parliament. Those who did attend the town square meetings just accepted her appearance. They didn't seem to care as long as she didn't make any political statements. As to their constant togetherness, neither of them let the gossip of the other women of Roxbury bother them.

The discussions are always the same. When the Townshend Acts of 1767 are enacted, the men include them in their gripes. The Townshend Acts are meant to replace the failure of the Stamp Act of 1765. They too prove to be similarly controversial and meet resistance in all the colonies. The citizens debated them in the streets, in the town squares, in the colonial newspapers, while eating at their dinner tables and of course, in their taverns.

They introduced a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America. The acts placed an indirect tax on glass, paper and tea, all of which have to be imported from England. But more than anything, the acts claimed that Parliament has a right to tax the colonies. The acts treated the colonists as though they were second class British subjects without any rights.

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It has been three years since the Townshend Acts were legislated and nothing has changed. James and Julia still occasionally walk to the town square, purchase a copy of the Boston Gazette and listen to the protests of the people over them, the Declaratory Act and other tyrannous actions of the English government. But on this particular Monday morning, March 5, 1770, the two synergetic beings decided instead to go into the city of Boston to get the weekly newspaper.

Pierre has given them the day off; he wants to use his pub to have a private meeting with some Patriot friends of his. Yaphet wants to visit a few of the dress shops she has heard some of the patrons say their wives talk about. As soon as they finish entering the new information that they have learned into SAM, James rents a horse drawn buggy, and they make the journey in the middle of a light snowfall.

It is still lightly snowing when they arrive in the city. After they visit a couple of stores, Julia selects a plain light-brown dress that buttons up the front. It has large ivory buttons, a white collar and white frill around the ends of the elbow length sleeves. It has a red rose surrounded with forest green leaves embroidered on the left side just below the collar.

Next, they stroll arm in arm through several of the streets just noting the things for sale in the various shops. One of the shops they visit in Dorchester offers its customers a chocolate drink; it's a new beverage that was first introduced to Boston residents around 1765. They both savor its rich taste. Then the two lovers decide to eat at a local café for their lunch. It is late in the afternoon when they finish their meal.

As they leave the restaurant and are getting into their carriage, the first thing they notice is that a large crowd of colonial civilians have surrounded a few British soldiers in front of the Customs House down the street. Although the two aliens are about fifty meters from the incident, they can clearly see that the crowd is harassing the soldiers, verbally abusing them and throwing various objects at them. Some of British Regulars are hit by snowballs, others by stones.

The British commanding officer at the Customs House orders his men to fix their bayonets. The colonists responded by throwing more snowballs and other objects at them, and one of the soldiers is hit with something. He fires his musket at the crowd. The other soldiers begin shooting a moment later. When the smoke clears, five colonists are dead or dying, three others are injured.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Zlatex is collateral damage; he is struck in the chest by a stray bullet and instantly falls to the ground. He is bleeding profusely, and his breathing is shallow. He is in great pain, and his face is pale. He looks to be near death. Realizing that her symbiotic partner has been seriously wounded, Yaphet is at a loss; she feels nothing. She is not in any pain. Nor is her breathing affected. Because they are syngeneic equivalents, they each feel and experience what the other feels and experiences. If one dies, so does the other.

Yaphet does not want anyone to discover that they are alien beings. She struggles but manages to get him back into their carriage. He passes out from the pain. She takes him back to Pierre's Liberty Tavern. Arriving late in the evening, she uses the backstairs and tries to sneak him into their room. But Pierre notices her struggling while attempting to get James up the stairs. He helps her remove his shirt and get him into bed. He then sends his wife to get the doctor. Her extraterrestrial counterpart is still having trouble breathing, although his bleeding has slowed somewhat, and he is still pale. Air bubbles of blood are escaping through the large bullet hole in his chest, just above his left nipple.

The physician arrives and puts a bandage on him but informs Julia that there is nothing that he can do to help James. The bullet has punctured his left lung. He is surprised that the young man has lived this long. He tells her that if he tries to remove the projectile, the operation will probably kill him immediately; it is too close to his left pulmonary artery and his heart. He says that the best thing they can do is to try and make him comfortable. Then he leaves.

Pierre's wife offers to stay but Julia asks her and Pierre to leave. She doesn't want them to see her die, after her male counterpart dies. But the alien being is still at a loss as to why she is not in pain also, and why her breathing isn't labored. After Pierre and the woman leave, Yaphet sits on the edge of the bed, holding Zlatex's hand. She is heartbroken but is resigned to their fate. Then she lies down next to him, telling herself that they will die together in their sleep. Soon after that, their bodies will dematerialize into a blazing display of colored lights, leaving their clothes lying in a pile on the bed.

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It is the following morning, Tuesday, March 31st. Yaphet is lying next to Zlatex. It is the first time she has ever gone to bed with him with clothes on and without having sex.

"Yaphet, wake up," Zlatex shakes his syngeneic consort. "Why did we wear clothes to bed? Why is my chest wrapped in a bloody bandage?"

"Zlatex, you're still alive!" she screams. "You were shot yesterday. Don't you remember?"

"No, the last thing I remember was the two of us trying to get away from that angry mob in Boston."

"The British soldiers started shooting at the colonists. One of the bullets hit you in the chest. I brought you back here to our room. The doctor came; he said that he didn't expect you to live. He was surprised that you were still alive."

Yaphet then tells Zlatex about the shooting and the trouble she had getting him up the backstairs and into bed. He touches the gauze on his chest and feels a small lump. Upon peeking under the bloody bandage, he sees a musket ball, but nothing else. The bullet has been forced out of his chest by his muscles. He is surprised; he does not see a bullet wound above his nipple. He quickly pulls off the dressing. His chest is completely healed. There isn't even a scar; just some blood smeared onto his skin. His breathing is perfectly normal too.

He hands the musket ball to Yaphet and points to his chest. "OK, if I was shot and was going to die, how are we going to explain this."

Neither she nor Zlatex can rationalize how he could heal from his wound overnight. After discussing it for over an hour, they come to the conclusion that there must be something in the atmosphere of the Earth or maybe the food or water that is different from that of Herth, their home planet. They also wonder if going into hyper-sleep or the rays from Earth's medium size yellow sun over Herth's more massive red burning star could have affected them in any way.

Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon and 0.1 percent trace gases with carbon dioxide making up a large percent of that 0.1 percent. The air of Herth was 80 percent nitrogen and 19 percent oxygen with the remaining one percent being mostly carbon dioxide.

They decide to consult SAM. They take it out and connect it to the solar powered rechargeable battery pack in the sunlight by the window. Then Yaphet, using her personal mobile communicator, asks the processor if the different atmospheres of the planets, the food or water, hyper-sleep or the rays coming from the sun could influence their body chemistry in any way.

After a few seconds, the computer sends a text message to each of their mobile communicators. Neither the different atmosphere of Earth, the food or the water nor hyper-sleep or the different sunrays alone could affect them in any way. But in any combination of these there is a 92 to 97 percent chance that these things would cause them both to be immune to disease and injury and thus enable them to live longer without aging. There is also a 92 to 97 percent chance that they can live apart without any side effects. Finally, now that they have lived on the planet for longer than a couple of months, Zlatex is probably sterile and Yaphet infertile.

Both are shocked. Not so much that they cannot have children. They made the decision when they first got here over four years ago that they were not going to have any children. At least, not for a long while. The two syngeneic aliens are more surprised by the fact that they are invulnerable to sickness and physical impairments. They are both still only 23 years old physically.

As for living apart, they decide to try it out, to see what happens.

"Yaphet, go downstairs and ask Pierre for a cup of brandy. Tell him it's for me that the musket ball was not as deep in my chest as everyone believed. Tell him that I'm feeling much better now. If neither of us gets headaches or becomes dizzy and disorientated or have trouble seeing and breathing, while we're apart, then we will know that we don't have to be close to each other all the time anymore."

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When she returns about half an hour later, Pierre is with her. He is glad to see that James is alive and healthy. He tells his bartender that both he and his wife can take another day off to recuperate from their harrowing ordeal Monday. In fact, he allows James to take a couple of days off to continue to recuperate, but Julia will have to return to work on Wednesday.

Luckly, by now James has gotten dressed and Pierre cannot see that his wound is completely healed. He tells Pierre that his left arm is a little stiff; he will keep it in a sling for a couple of days.

After he leaves, the two symbiotic equivalents discuss their "new freedoms" living on Earth. First of all, they both want to continue to live more like a husband and wife, each with their own tasks. And they both want to continue to sleep naked together, with him inside her and her enveloping him, giving each other numerous orgasms throughout the night. Also, she does not want to go to the town square as often, maybe just on Monday when they purchase a newspaper. He can give her a synopsis of what he learns there when he comes home before he goes to work. They are both adamant; neither of them is going to get involved in the politics of the Earthlings. Other than professing to being Patriots, they are going to remain neutral. Finally, Zlatex wants to find a cottage somewhere close by for them to live in.

Within a couple of weeks, the two extraterrestrials find a small house near Pierre's to rent. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen that has a water pump by the sink and a cast iron stove. The combination living and dining area has a large fireplace. There is a private outhouse in the backyard behind the dwelling. They purchase a bed and put it in one bedroom and a small tub and place it in the other bedroom for bathing. There is already a chest of drawers in the bedroom and a small couch with a table and three chairs in the living area.

It has been several months since the shooting in Boston. The colonists have learned that most of the taxes from the Townshend Acts were repealed by Parliament. But the Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act and other tyrannous laws passed by the British Parliament, publicized that the "Boston Massacre," as it has been named, was a summons for American liberty. They believe that it is a justifiable reason for the removal of British troops from the American Colonies, particularly Boston, Philadelphia and New York.

Ignoring them, the British government continues to tax the American Colonies without providing them with representation in Parliament. American resentment in all thirteen colonies, coupled with corrupt British officials, and abusive enforcement of the laws, provokes colonial attacks on British ships, British soldiers and Loyalists to the English Crown. From Main to Georgia, they are against rule by the United Kingdom. The citizens want to form their own government.

Meanwhile, after it closes for the evening, the Sons of Liberty frequently meet in Pierre's Liberty Tavern and other places around greater Boston. Many say that they have followers in all the colonies. They mostly discuss politics, taxes and what they call the tyranny the of the English Parliament and King George III, subjecting them to "taxation without representation."

The two syngeneic lovers learn that King George III rules the colonies through the governors he appoints in the Royal Colonies of North and South Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia. He rules indirectly in the Proprietary Colonies of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island are governed by charters to the colonists. This allows them more self-governance and allows them the right to elect their own governors and legislators, to make their own laws and to manage local affairs, without any direct interference and as long as they paid their taxes and obeyed the laws set by Parliament. However, all the colonies are subject to Parliament, must pay taxes and remain loyal to King George III and England.

It needs to be noted that Massachusetts was originally a charter colony, but the charter was revoked in 1684, and it was made a royal colony in 1691.

That is another contention of the Sons; they believe that they should be allowed to vote for who they want to govern them. They want complete autonomy from British rule in all the colonies.

They also want reprisals for the Boston Massacre of 1770. The Patriots are saying that the soldiers should have used more restraint, maybe shooting their guns into the air, because sticks and stones can break bones, but bullets kill. The eight soldiers were tried for murder.

John Adams, an excellent lawyer who believed that the success of the American republic depended on the virtue and morality of its citizens, defended the militia in court. He argued that the soldiers had acted in self-defense against a threatening mob. He further stated that a republican government, like that which the colonists want, could only thrive if its citizens were virtuous, self-disciplined, and devoted to the common good. Six of the men were acquitted and two were found guilty of manslaughter. They were sentenced to branding on their thumbs. Later that evening when they are alone in their house, Yaphet and Zlatex discuss the castigation. They both believe that form of punishment to be inhumane.

The Sons of Liberty are saying that the punishment did not meet the crime. But nothing is further done to appease the colonists, especially in Boston.

On Friday December 17, 1773, the talk in the tavern are the events that transpired the night before. Listening to them, both James and Julia are hoping that the discussions among the patrons do not go any further than just heated debate.

The Townshend Acts of taxation on imported tea was enforced once again through the Tea Act of 1773. The law allowed the East India Company, an enterprise that is politically connected to the English Parliament, to import tea without having to pay any import taxes. This led to the Boston Tea Party Thursday evening. Several colonists, some of them disguised as Native American Indians, snuck aboard a ship docked in the harbor and threw numerous chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. They did it as a protest against the Tea Act of the previous May.

The Boston Tea Party increased tensions between the British and the colonies and led to the passage of the Intolerable Acts. These acts closed the port of Boston, eliminating their self-governance by granting more authority to the royal governor and limiting the powers of the local assemblies. It banned town meetings without royal permission. It required colonists to house and provide living accommodations to British troops in their homes. Finally, it allowed British officials who were accused of crimes to be tried in Britain; the plaintiff would have to pay for their own passage to England.

Dumping the chests of tea into Boston Harbor further divided the residents. Those few who are loyal to the British government are insisting that those who are accountable should be rounded up and hung for treason. The Patriots want to glorify those who were responsible. Both James and Julia remain neutral. Mainly because they fear that if they get involved in the disputes the people living here in America have with the government, then their status as alien beings might somehow become known.

While emphasizing their patriotism to the American Cause, they have told everyone that Julia's parents are Hispanic, and James is of French descent. They met each other while living in Santiago, Cuba and decided to live in New Orleans after they got married. But they lost all their personal belongings, including their birth certificates, Baptismal certificates and marriage certificate in a storm while the ship was at sea. They further tell everybody that they came to Boston in the hope of finding a better life than they had living in New Orleans.

Every time someone asks them what Christian faith they belong to, they answer that they are Catholics, as were her Spanish and his French parents. They tell everyone that because there are no Catholic Churches in Roxbury or anywhere close by at this time and they do not want to get involved in any kind of religious dispute with anyone. Also, they don't believe that it is necessary for them to change their beliefs just because they cannot go to church every Sunday. They tell everyone that God hears the prayers of all his children, no matter what their faith happens to be.

Both aliens now wonder if they should have chosen to live in the port of New Orleans instead of Boston. The city was one of several places they observed from space using the telescopic cameras of their spaceship. It is on the banks of a wide meandering river with a relatively large lake to its north. They decided not to land there because they also noticed that the river overflowed its banks during the spring. Yaphet didn't want to live somewhere where she might have to move periodically because of flooding.

The only other places they considered living in were on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in what they later learned the inhabitants called Europe. As to why they didn't select any other city in other parts of the world, it was because none of them appeared to be as promising as those cities in North America. Their computer, SAM, couldn't give them any information about Earth except geographical information about the places they observed.

The two syngeneic equivalents are still living in the small two bedroom house they rent near Pierre's Liberty Tavern. Talking to the customers, they have learned that the revolutionists are in all thirteen colonies, most notably in Boston, in a city called New York, which is south of Boston and in Philadelphia, which is further south of New York. The tyrannous acts passed by Parliament and actions of George III and the British government, particularly the Boston Massacre, the Tea Act of 1773 and the Boston Tea Party has increased the desire of the Patriots in their call for revolution against British rule.

Citizens throughout the thirteen colonies responded to the Intolerable Acts with additional acts of protest. They convened the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774, where representatives from the colonies met to coordinate a response. They petitioned the English King George III for repeal of the Intolerable Acts along with pleading for a redress of their grievances. They also called for a trade boycott against British merchants. The thirteen colonies considered it to be a peaceful means of settling their disputes with Great Britain.

But the crisis escalated into more confrontations, setting the stage for the American Revolution. The thirteen colonies drilled their militia units and war finally erupted in Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, which marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

On April 18, 1775, the Sons of Liberty, learned from a source inside the British high command that British Regulars would march that night on Concord. The spy intelligence suggested that the most likely objectives of the British movements would be the seizure of weapons, powder, and supplies stored at Concord.

The militia were not worried about the provisions. They had been safely moved earlier. But they did think their leaders in Lexington were unaware of the potential danger. Two couriers, Paul Revere and William Dawes, were sent to quietly alert colonial militias that the British troops were about to march from Boston bound for Lexington and Concord.

The two men went by separate routes in case one of them was captured. Revere crossed the Charles River by boat to get to Charlestown, where numerous patriots were waiting for a signal about the movement of British troops. They had been told to look at the steeple of Boston's Old North Church, the highest point in the city. If there was one lantern hanging in the steeple, the British were arriving by land. If there were two, the British were coming by sea.

At dawn on April 19, about 700 British troops embarked from boats and arrived in Lexington, coming upon a small detachment of militiamen. Shots were fired; eight militiamen lay dead and nine were wounded; only one British soldier was injured.

The British then continued into Concord to search for arms, still unaware that the vast majority had already been relocated. They decided to burn the little they found. But the fire got out of control. Hundreds of militiamen, occupying the high ground outside of Concord, believed the whole town would be burned down. They hurried to Concord's North Bridge, which was being defended by a troop of British soldiers. The British shot first but fell back when the colonists returned fire.

After searching Concord for several hours, the British prepared to return to Boston, approximately twenty-nine kilometers away. However, by that time, nearly 2,000 militiamen, known as minutemen for their ability to be ready on a moment's notice, had descended to the area; more were continually arriving.

The relatively low casualties of the Battles of Lexington and Concord proved to the colonists that they could stand up against the most powerful army in the world. News of the battle quickly spread throughout the colonies. It reached London the following May.

The Battle of Lexington and Concord was a shot that was heard throughout the colonies and inspired many colonists to join the Revolution.

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A couple of months later, on June 17, 1775, the British narrowly defeated the Colonists in Battle of Bunker Hill in Charlestown, a neighborhood of Boston. The low number of casualties once again illustrated the resolve and strength of patriot forces.

The following March 17, 1776, the two extraterrestrials watched as the British Army evacuated Boston. General Washington had placed cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston Harbor. The two aliens could see the explosions of the cannon fire from the second floor balcony of Pierre's Liberty Tavern. They watched as British troops boarded ships and sailed away. They eventually found out that the British forces went to Nova Scotia.

In April 1776, a group of Loyalists conspired to assassinate General George Washington. The conspiracy came to light when Thomas Hickey, a member of the General's personal guard, was arrested for counterfeiting. While being interrogated, the assassination plot came to light. Investigations then led to the identification of other conspirators involved in the plot. Hickey was tried, found guilty of mutiny and sedition, and executed by hanging on June 28, 1776.

Phoebe Fraunces, the daughter of Samuel Fraunces, is often credited with helping to foil the plot to poison Washington. He was the owner of Fraunces Tavern in New York City. However, there is no direct primary evidence to confirm that Phoebe Fraunces even existed or that she played a role in foiling the attempt to poison anyone.

The legend of Phoebe Fraunces has become a symbol of the unsung heroism faced by many individuals during the Revolutionary War. Whether or not it is literally accurate, is not important. The story remains an enduring part of Revolutionary War folklore.

Never-the-less, the assassination became known as the Conspiracy of 1776.

By the summer of 1776, a full-scale war of independence had broken out, paving the way for the creation of the United States of America. This was accompanied by the colonists' Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Copies of it were circulated around the colonies, one was even sent to King George III. The Declaration was written mainly by Thomas Jefferson. Although John Adams, Bejamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman collaborated in writing it. Jefferson was asked to write a draft text due to his ability as an eloquent writer. After he finished writing the rough copy, the others helped refine its wording. Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Sherman along with 52 other delegates then signed the document, including Philip Livingston.

"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitled them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind demand that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principals, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness."

The rest of the document is mainly a list of their grievances with the British government and particularly King George III. They state that the King of Great Britain has repeatedly injured and violated their rights and established absolute tyranny over them. They state that it is "their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government."

Then in August, the syngeneic lovers received news of the Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brookly Heights. The British Army decisively defeated the American Continental Army on August 27, 1776. The English forces outmaneuvered General Washington. However, Washington was able to retreat his troops across the East River after sunset and a fog set in.

Between these battles, there were numerous smaller skirmishes and bloody engagements between the Continental Army and the British soldiers.

The American victories at the Battles of Saratoga on September 19 and October 7, 1777, convinced the French that the fledging American nation had a chance of winning their independence. The engagements demonstrated that the Continental Army could defeat a superior British force in a major military encounter. It encouraged France to openly ally with the thirteen colonies.

Benedict Arnold felt undervalued by his peers and slighted by the Continental Congress. He also had significant monetary troubles, due mainly to his lavish lifestyle and his conspicuous financial support for the war. His corruption and profiteering eventually led to his court martial, for which he was formally reprimanded. He perceived the reproach to be an insult.

On April 8, 1779, Arnold married Peggy Shippen, a Loyalist living in Philadelphia. It was through her that Arnold obtained connections with Major John André, a British officer who acted as the intermediary in Arnold's espionage. Letters between André and Shippen indicate a friendly and possibly flirtatious relationship, but it is a topic of historical debate and speculation as whether or not they were "in love." There is no unambiguous evidence that supports a romantic attachment involving them.

Arnold believed that the British would eventually restore stability and order to the colonies. In August 1780, Washington appointed him as the commander of West Point. With the help André, he began to secretly negotiate with the British to surrender the strategically important military fort to them. The plot failed when André was captured on September 23, 1780. At the time, he had incriminating papers hidden in his boot. André was later executed as a spy. Arnold narrowly escaped to the British lines before he could be captured and brought to justice.

He joined the British Army, becoming a brigadier general. In the Continental Army he was a major general, a rank above that which he received after joining the British forces. He lived the rest of his life in Canada and later in Great Britain. Scorned in America, he died in London in 1801, distrusted even by his own British allies.

Finally, the Battle of Yorktown on October 19, 1781, proved to be a decisive event. The British General Lord Cornwallis was defeated by the American troops led by General Washington and French forces under General Rochambeau and French naval support.

The following morning, October 20th, Pierre sends James into the city to purchase supplies for his tavern. From the list he has, James knows that he will be gone most of the day; he has several stops to make. Meanwhile, the pub is filled with customers, all talking about the Battle of Yorktown. Julia decides that she has had enough of the war. She tells herself as soon as her counterpart returns, she is going to talk to him about moving completely out of Boston, anywhere where there is no war. But she is at a loss as to where she wants to live.

Unbeknownst to her and her consort, the war is over. Although they have heard about the surrender of the British at Yorktown, they do not realize that this battle was a pivotal engagement. The war has become too costly for England, not only in men, armaments and resources but also in finances. Further, the citizens of Great Britain have become weary of the war; they want it to end.

The Treaty of Paris will be signed on September 3, 1783, which will officially end the American Revolution. The American negotiators will be John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay. The treaty will formally recognize the independence of the United States and establish its borders as, North to Canada, West to the Mississippi River and South to Spanish Florida which regained control of the territory in the treaty. It will not include the Isle of Orleans or Mobile Bay which will still be owned and controlled by Spain. The Louisiana territory will also still be controlled by Spain. The United Kingdom will retain control of Canada.

It is Saturday evening October 20, 1781. Yaphet's anger over the war subsided somewhat when Zlatex came home with a new blue bonnet for her, causing her to temporally forget about the war and all the misery and horror it brings. As the two syngeneic beings are removing each other's clothes and preparing for bed, Zlatex says to his alien equivalent, "Yaphet, I don't want to live in Massachusetts anymore. There's too much conflict and too much bloodshed. Let's move someplace else."

Still wearing the bonnet, Yaphet kneels in front of him and begins taking off his pants. "I'm with you on that, Zlatex. But how can we do it? We can't just leave. Where will we go? You know as well as I do that the colonists in all thirteen colonies are in an uproar over what the English Parliament is doing to them. No matter where we go, we'll meet with the same discontent." She glances up and gives her consort a sensuous look and then kisses his circumcised manhood.

He smiles anxiously anticipating her next gesture. "I was talking to a fur trader this morning just before I left for Boston. He told me that he is leaving the city this coming Friday. He has some beaver and racoon pelts and some deer skins in storage that he wants to sell. He is looking for someone to help him transport them across the land to the Allegheny River then down the Ohio River and Mississippi River to New Orleans."

The naked Yaphet - except for her bonnet - has gotten up and is sitting on the edge of their bed; her legs are open, giving her lover an unobstructed view of her womanhood. She provocatively licks her lips in her plans to give him a special treat when they make love; another way of thanking him for the bonnet. He smiles wickedly as he stands between her open thighs, reaches out and cups her left breast with his right hand. He caresses her nipple with his thumb. Then, "Let's go to New Orleans."

"Oh Zlatex, I would love to do that."

"Great! When I see the fur trader tomorrow, I'll tell him that we will help him transport his pelts. We'll travel to New Orleans with him." Then they fall naked onto the bed and make passionate love together.

To be continued...