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short. How about it?) I smoothed. (What’s it like being human in one easy lesson?) He lighted more. (That’s it, that’s it!) That was it all right. Not quite the blind leading the blind, but close. All I could do was give him a skim over what I did have as the basics, show him … yes! Show! That ought to make it clear. I opened. (All right. The main thing about being in-human is survival. That’s the biggest percept of all. It drowns out about everything else for most humans.) He blanked. (What’s survival.) (Staying alive.) (What kind of problem is that? You’re alive, you stay alive.) I smoothed. (Not if you’re in a physical body. The imprint comes up for most to mean stay alive in a physical body, no more. They use most of their energy trying to survive, one way or another. That’s the cause of virtually all human problems. The drive for survival is so strong it messes up everything. End of lesson.) BB rolled. (Come on, that’s the wildest rote I ever had thrown at me!) (It’s not so funny if you’re in it. You believe it as real and nothing else.) He continued to roll, and I realized there was only one way he just might get the idea. Show him. Take him down on the beach and watch the swimmers … (Come on, follow my ident.) BB lighted. (Sure, RAM!) I turned, did a half-roll, and dove down through the rings with my new KT-95 friend close behind me. Never mind the big centers, get down to the basics … that would be back from civilization, outlying physical areas … middle of Asia, yes … that would do it … I pulled to a stop just over a bleak hill with a ragged forest down one side. A man was crouched in the edge of the forest. BB was beside me and I turned his focus on the man. What looked to be a small deer was grazing in the grasses not far from the man. The man raised a gun, took aim, and fired. The deer fell, twitching its legs, and the man ran forward, pulled the deer’s head back, and slashed its throat with a knife. Blood gushed out from the deer’s throat, and it finally went limp. The man hoisted the deer over his shoulder and moved along