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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. As he did, I was astounded. As he came closer with AA, a barrier kept pushing me back. Finally I signaled BB to stay where he was. AA, still in the shape of the warrior, struggled and vibrated heavily. (Gotta kill the enemy. Kill them, kill them. Gotta get up and kill them … Where’s my spear, my shield? Gotta get up and kill them. I’m missing all the battle. Leggo of me. You’re makin me miss the fightin, it’ll be all over and I’ll have missed out … Gimme my spear. Where is it?… Gotta go and fight, go and fight and kill!) BB vibrated. (He doesn’t know me! I can’t hold him much longer!) I flickered. (Let him go.)