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him!) I flickered. (Where?) BB leaned. (That way!) I turned inward. That way, that way, that way … was out of time, no, another time. Moving to another time ident was not exactly something I performed often, not willfully. Then I had the percept from our last contact with AA. It was a different time frame, too. Get lost, left brain. Then, very clearly, there was that soft vibration in me. (It is important for you to go. He will help.) I lighted brightly. 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.