Far Journeys by Robert Monroe

Author:Robert Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780804153713
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2014-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

CLICK!

BB vibrated. (I thought you couldn’t pull a skip!)

I flickered. (Well, I …)

(And both of us in the same pull!) BB rolled. (You don’t accept your own strength.)

I smoothed. (That’s a skip?)

(Just like we do it in KT-9S.) Then BB cut off as he scanned the action below us.

We were hovering over a rugged countryside, rocks, sand, very little vegetation. Sunlit cloudless sky overhead. Directly below us was a dusty road. Marching along the road three abreast was a column of men, eighty or ninety in number. Each was dressed in some kind of knee-length coat, no sleeves, wide leather belt just above the hips, heavy vest over the chest. A short double-edged sword hung through a loop in the belt. Metal plates were strapped to the arms. A round, pointed shield was in each left hand, a long wooden spear in the right. They were marching very rapidly. This was out of the ring. This was real physical life rote.

The M Band noise was much less. I opened more. (You ident your friend?)

BB flickered. (It’s very solid, but … that’s him! There’s the human out in front alone, then AA is the one just behind him … but he’s different. So much other rote on top of him. AA is weak. Can’t get any strong percept. The other stuff is too strong. What’s going on!)

I smoothed. (He’s still in a physical body at this point. He’s a warrior.)

BB blanked. (What’s a warrior?)

(He kills other humans.)

I turned away from a totally blanked BB, reached out, and focused for a percept on AA. Almost immediately, I hit a wall of resistance that pushed me back violently. Try as I might, I couldn’t force through it. It was the same as I encountered before when I reached for AA.

The column of troops moved along the road and deep into a ravine, and I saw the enemy troops hidden above on each side of the ravine. A great sense of knowing came through me, and I reached out frantically to the warrior AA, but the barrier threw me back. I knew what was going to happen and it did. When AA’s column was deep in the ravine, the hidden soldiers stood and unfolded the ambush, and a shower of spears rained down. AA was one of the first to fall. He writhed in the dusty road, face down, trying to get up to join the battle, but the spear in his back had driven through him and into the road, pinning him down. Blood poured into the dust, and after a moment his body relaxed and went completely limp.

I vibrated strongly at BB. (Get down there, get to him. I can’t, so you’ve got to! Bring him back up here.)

BB moved quickly, and I focused as he went down to the battle scene. I give him credit, all the action and killing didn’t flicker him in the least. He tugged a struggling AA out of the warrior body, and brought him up toward me.

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