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(Go on!) BB moved swiftly into the massive, flowing ring of vibrating forms. The M Band noise was nowhere near what he had expected, almost within tolerable levels. As he slipped through the edges of various radiation groups, he was quick to percept that many if not most had signal strength equal to if not greater than his own. But it was different. It was not just the noise, it was something different. Nothing like it in KT-95. Also, the forms obviously were aware of his passing … short flashes of curiosity, retracting to let him through, pleasant acknowledgment. Nothing like the pattern he expected from his earlier percept. Then he was with AA. (Some adventure, huh?) AA blanked, then lighted brightly. (BB! What are you doing here!) (Came to get you, what else?) (You didn’t have to do that.) (Well, you were supposed to return to the Station. What happened?) AA flickered. (I was?) (You sure were.) AA flickered more deeply. (I don’t know. It seemed, uh, easier this way.) BB smoothed. (How was it?) AA lighted. (Astounding! I don’t have anything to express it.) (Start at the beginning.) AA rolled brightly, and hit BB with a solid rote before he could close. CLICK! AA moved among a large mass of beings of all shapes, sizes, and patterns. The crowd was so large that he could not easily perceive the other side, where it ended. None remotely resembled anyone he had known back home in KT-95. He dulled, disappointed. Were they all waiting to be human? (All of ’em.) AA spun his focus. A short, human-looking form leaned behind