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12. Hearsay Evidence Time: Indeterminate, night … Went through usual unhook pattern, no signal present … with many options open … decided to return to BB on my own if I could … ident BB KT-95 … then ran stretch-out method … through the rings without incident, then to edge of thin haze of Intermediate Area … went motionless to get percept of BB close in, as he didn’t seem evident … percept brought surprise … he was directly under me. Closed and dulled so tightly, no wonder he was hard to find. I opened and vibrated. (Hey, BB, I’m back.) BB opened slightly, then lighted. (Well! I had about given up on you. Had you stuck in your human body.) I rolled slightly. (Sometimes I am.) There was no percept from him regarding AA, and I wasn’t going to bring up the subject if he didn’t. It was a tender rote at this point and I knew I didn’t have the answer he wanted. If there was one at all. Just to keep the action going, I stretched, did about three snap rolls, and returned with a flourish. BB plied. (What was that?) (Just getting some exercise.) BB opened. (We got a game back in KT-95 where we use that kind of stuff. Want to try it?) I lighted. (Sure!) BB rolled slightly. (You just try to do what I do. That’s all there is to it.) He turned, spun off, and I stretched behind him. Focused tightly on his ident. It was like holding on to a greased pig on a sheet of ice, only the ice was three-dimensional—no, worse than that, it had many dimensions. It was whirling, stopping, starting, moving slow then fast,