BB vibrated. (Sure, I will! You don’t lose things like that!) (It won’t be the same. Pick up your rote when you tried to pull him out. Even then, you had trouble with his ident. I guarantee you that’s just the small part of it, he was only on his way in, he was just getting started.) He turned inward and closed. I suddenly got the percept that I had done it again. What would I do with him? He wasn’t a stray cat or dog I could take back, feed, and find a home for. It was ludicrous. Fix him up with a human body? How would I do that? And he certainly wasn’t going to join the line and go human via the Entry Station. Can you learn to swim without getting in the water and getting wet? I tried to ease out of it gracefully. (Maybe it’s best that you pull a skip and go back to KT-95, let it go at that.) BB opened slightly. (I did. Went and came back.) I waited. I wasn’t going to get in deeper if I could help it. I knew he would go on and he did. (There was a hole and the hole was empty. You ever been like that?) I plied. (Yeah, I’ve been there. It’ll stay empty because it’s designed for one curl. No other will fit in.) (AA was one smart curl, you can believe it. Too smart for his own good. Look what it got him.) I plied again. (It happens.) I was about to turn and disengage as carefully as I could, but I was too late. I had the strong percept that he would come to some solution and it would involve me. I was too right. He had lighted very brightly. (You can do it!) (Do what?) (Feed me rotes about humans. Then I’d be ready for him.) I flickered. (I wouldn’t know where to start.) (Then show me how it works.) (How am I going to do that? You’d have to be in-human …) (No, no, I wouldn’t,) BB cut in quickly. (You move around without a physical body.) (Well, yes, but …) (You and me, we had a hook right from the start, RAM. Like old friends. I got a solid ident on you. So you be my Tour Guide, quick and