[ WP ] You are the Historian , a shapeshifting , immortal being that gives historical figures a push in the right direction .

Dear Alex, 
 
 We met long ago in Maine when you were ten years old. Now you are sixty five and perhaps this will be the last thing you read before the nurse ushers your family in to say goodbye. You need not worry, the words on this page will appear to them as your favorite Robert Frost poem. To you, it is my one and only direct message on the nature of your life. I am compelled because for the past year, as your body has slowly shut down, there has been an uncharacteristic shift in your thinking I have been unable to affect by subtle or overt means. 
 
 The definitions of `` name'' and `` identity'' as I understand them are outside of current human capability the way Mozart at the peak of his powers could never know a quantum computing network as you do. The Historian is the closest term, I think, but I hope you will think of me as the form I took when you were ten - William, your tennis coach at Camp Watana. You preferred canoeing and rock climbing, but made it to the tennis courts a dozen times that summer. 
 
 Alex, during each one of those tennis lessons I was setting you upon the path your life ultimately took. Your science may become capable of this input method in a thousand years - it involves imprinting pre-arranged patterns in your sub-conscious by presenting your mind with sequences of a tennis ball's movement. Ball spin, speed, trajectory, the nature of the twelve dimensions ( yes, you were right ) and the affects of sub-atomic particles were arranged lines of code being fed into your deep memory. Please understand you were responsible for the majority of your work but the twelve major mental breakthroughs you experienced throughout your life were planted by me and blossomed at precisely correct times like desert flowers after rare rainfall. 
 
 You are known now as a mid-level theoretical physicist but in about one hundred and fifty years your work will be the foundation of the Quantum Network Assimilation Cloud. The Q-NAC, as you theorized, will automatically combine networks of quantum computing devices anywhere on Earth into a singular entity capable of running simulations accurate enough to predict the future to a 90 % accurate degree. It will maintain that accuracy up to 100 years in the future ( approx one human lifetime ) and it will be re-named Oracle. The affects of Oracle will shift and accelerate mankind's path within the larger universal community. There will be war but the net result will be positive. At some point, perhaps because of my strange sense of justice, it will be renamed Tuck. 
 
 I tell you this not because you can affect history anymore than you already have but because of this shift I see in you. In the twilight of your time you begin to doubt if your life was worth anything in the grand scheme of things. I promise you it was worth more than you ever knew. It seems wrong your final thoughts would be painful and despite protocol I must plead with you to reconsider and make them full of joy. I tried nudging you many ways but this dark burden would not budge, which, I must mention, makes me suspect another one such as I is involved that, despite all my ability, I can not yet see. 
 
 This is my final measure and plea to you. Know that you changed the world for the better beyond your wildest predictions. If, after contemplating your historical impact you still feel the burden please put it out of your mind and just hold your family's hands. Look at the love in their eyes. You are loved and forgiven. You are loved and home. 
 
 They are coming in. The choice is yours alone, Alex. I hope it is to make a good joke and laugh with them - I always liked the one of yours about the pirate's favorite letter. It's not Rrrrr, it's the beautiful and open C on the horizon. 
 
 Your Friend, 
 
 William 
 

