20. Ramses - Voice of ReasonI managed to find where Ramses hid the book. He's becoming a bit more unstable the older our son becomes, so we all agreed I should document things for awhile once again.
Ramses has been working on his inventions as much as he can, he still has a few more promotions to go, but since he sells them at the consignment shop, he gets more money than he usually would for them. He's a charming man, if you can get around the insanity like we all can. In order to pass the time, the immortals have been doing different things around the house. Tut continues to sculpt and paint, Hati watches tv quite often (she says she has a few years to catch up on) or breaks space rocks in the backyard for gems, and Menes likes to dig tunnels with the miner Ramses built for him.
Bobo and Jessa, being former imaginary friends, like to sit and talk to each other a lot, comparing experiences considering Jessa was made real much sooner than Bobo had been.
He still works in the school district, and he's doing pretty well for being in his 90's.
Even though Ramses is as skilled as anyone could be with handiness, it took this long for someone to call him to see if he could upgrade a radio for them.
This marked the last official one he needed in order to each his ambrosia when he gets older. Some of these trends are making much more sense than they used to, you wouldn't want someone inexperienced to live forever, would you?
Aten and Jessa grew up to be teens on the same day. Both Ramses and I agree they aged very well. We couldn't be prouder of them.
Jessa's just like me with her love of red. It seems to be the most popular color with the women who marry into the family.
That night, Menes surprised us all by taking himself, Ramses, and Aten on a nice, long trip to China. Of course, being men, they didn't take many pictures, but it was good to hear from them every once in awhile. Menes finally bought the family a vacation home in the forbidden city and upgraded it a little. He set up a little garden outside, bought new beds for all three bedrooms, and bought Ramses an inventing table, as well as a chemistry table, telescope, and new chess table for Aten. After all this, he just seemed to run around the countryside fishing. He likes it, so I don't blame him. Ramses just worked on building all the machinery he could so he could sell them when they got home. Once he did so, he made a couple of sales worth more than $30,000 each! Aten worked on his logic abilities, as well as his wish to be a Chess Legend. Imagine my surprise when he came home with it finished! He's very pleased with himself. He also discovered all the potions he could with the chemistry set, tutored all of his chess opponents until he was more effective, and got a head start on finding new stars. It went rather well, from what I can tell!
Ramses aged up to adult the night they came back. He'd attached himself to his inventing table as soon as he came home, of course, and grew up in front of it.
Still handsome as ever, isn't he?
Menes decided he wanted to see what it would be like to train a horse. I'm not sure why, but they have the money to do it with. He adopted a little foal named Baby.
Who didn't stay a baby for more than a day.
Menes then decided to sell her at the equestrian center so someone else would be able to spend the time with her she deserved. It got him to thinking, maybe one of the generations would want to do this at some point?
I'm not sure if I'm proud of Bree. She became a papparazzi...
Aten and Jessa went to prom together! They had a wonderful time, but came back to a house of sorrow. Not long after they left for their dance, Grim came for Bobo. At 91, he lived a nice, full life. We will all miss him terribly.
Aten threw himself into stargazing, quickly finding more and more stars, planets, and comets.
He hates being outside, so we put a couple huge windows in his room. I threw myself into my job as a magician and quickly rose in the ranks. I'm almost to the top of my career!
Jessa... it seemed to hit her the worst, being a former imaginary friend herself. She would just sit there playing chess by herself or with the butler Menes hired for the house. None of us really knew what to do with her, so we left her alone as she grieved, finally coming out of it and practicing at the chemistry table again.
Ramses was promoted to the top of his career! The last sale of a Masterful Time Machine put him over the edge, and now all he has to do is wait for his Elder portrait to be painted and he'll be immortal. I like to think of my end coming, it puts everything I do into a new perspective. I have the utmost respect for this family, but how can they face eternity like this? It seems like Ramses has been thinking the same thing, and has been taking trips in the time machine he saved for the family. He likes going back in time, and came back with a sculpture at one point. It sits in the basement until we can figure out where else to put it.
It seems like Aten's take over of the book is right around the corner. He and Jessa only have a week left of school, and already he's been talking to me about proposing to her. She's a little hot-headed, but we all know how to deal with her now. She'd be a wonderful daughter-in-law, but it's just hard to think of my little boy getting married soon.
