Babylon 5 - Thirdspace by Peter David

Author:Peter David [David, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Bill Morishi wasn’t expecting to find himself under scrutiny that morning. Scrutiny, in fact, that seemed to border on the threatening. What he had anticipated, instead, was a simple, not-particularly-fancy meal at the Eclipse Cafe while he took the quiet time in the morning to go over some reports. The information that Dr. Trent had provided thus far was nothing short of amazing, and he was extremely excited over whatever else she might have come up with during the night. After all these years, he knew her far too well to think that she’d actually done something as radical as getting some sleep.

And then he began to have the oddest feeling that he was being watched.

He’d read about such moments, in works of fiction: the sudden suspicion that strange eyes are upon you, observing your every move, studying you for some sort of nefarious purpose. He’d chuckled over the absurdity of such notions. How would you ever sense someone was observing you unless you were a telepath, which he most assuredly was not. There was nothing intrinsically physical about a gaze. “Sensing” such a thing … it was ridiculous.

He thought that-right up until the very moment when he slowly looked up, in response to some sort of stimulus that he couldn’t even begin to place.

Two or three people were watching him.

He frowned and turned to see if there could possibly be something behind him that had caught their attention. He didn ‘t spot anything, but couldn’t quite wrap himself around the notion that he was the sudden focal point for a group of total strangers. In a mild act of self-denial, he shrugged it off as some sort of bizarre misunderstanding and went back to the report he’d been reading. He turned a page and then, out of morbid curiosity, looked up again.

Half a dozen people were now watching him. They weren’t all Humans: there was a Minbari in the group, and a Drazi. And there was no doubt now that they were looking straight at him, as if he had become a subject of incredible interest.

“I’m sorry … is there something I can do for you?” he asked.

Nothing. Not so much as a word.

Perhaps they were from some sort of… of odd tour group or something. He decided, though, that whatever the reason, it was clearly their problem and not his. He had his own matters to attend to, and if they wanted to stand there until their heads fell off, they were welcome to do so.

Considering that it appeared to Morishi that they were trying to commit every aspect of his features to memory, he muttered, “Why don’t you take a picture? It’ll last longer….”

He turned another page, and one after that, and then realized that he hadn’t read either one. That’s how distracted and rattled he had become. He decided to say something to the rude people, to tell them that they should either say what’s on their minds, or go the hell away. To his

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