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She smoothed again. (Oh yes. They no longer need to experience earth, so they begin to go physical less and less. Finally, they stop completely.) (Is that all?) (No, their … uh, radiation begins to change. And they begin to close. After that, they click out.) I had the percept she was beginning to vibrate. (I don’t want to act like an inquisitor, but …) She opened more. (Go on. We expected you to ask just what you are.) I took another direction. (I need as much of a rote as I can get. I may not get another chance.) She smoothed neatly, but there was a little roll in her response. (Oh, I’m sure you will.) (In time-space,) I went on, (are there many other growth patterns in consciousness similar to humans and earth?) She rolled. (You can’t count them if you wanted to, there’s that many. And new ones coming on line constantly.) I flickered. (On line?) She rolled stronger. (AA knew you would like it if I used that phrase.) I went with it. (I would like to meet this AA face to face sometime. He knows more about me than I do myself.) She didn’t respond, just rolled more strongly. I didn’t think it was that funny. (But are humans now in communication with other such, uh, civilizations?) She smoothed out. (Not very much. There is some exchange, but it doesn’t seem necessary or important.) (What about other, nonphysical energy systems?) She lighted. (Oh, those! We visit them as often as we can.) I threw a high hard one. (To gather loosh?) She turned inward, then opened carefully. (No. To sow it, to plant the seeds. That lets the, uh, ray have an ident to focus on.) Now I was the one who turned inward and closed. Her simple statement implied so much knowledge that made everything else no more than sophisticated monkey chatter. There was much monkey left in me, too much. But I had a sudden percept, and I knew I had to verify it.