My Library

(There is no need to distract their attention.) I reached for any percept of Bill, then of Lou. I couldn’t find either. (They have, graduated, as you put it.) That was to be expected, and I had a percept of their new address, as it were, but there was some factor involved that disturbed me, and I couldn’t bring it out. Then I became aware of the intent inward focus of the entire outermost ring, the inhabitants thereof. There was a strong radiation of expectancy, not concern, as if the star of the show was about to make an entrance. I followed the line of their focus. It was the physical planet earth, indistinct and nebulous from this perspective. (Let us take another viewpoint.) By all means, and the phrase does fit! CLICK! We were out in space somewhere between the earth and the moon, indeterminate distance, fifty thousand miles plus from the surface of earth. It was very clear and detailed, not as it was before. I turned to look at the moon and blanked. No more than a thousand feet away, or so it seemed, was an immense, solid-appearing object gray in color, long and slender, conical-shaped with a hemispheric dome at the widest end—the other end was somewhere in the distance, at least several miles. It appeared motionless, but I had the definite percept of M Band radiation from it. A spaceship, a physical spaceship? (In your terms, that is correct. It is not a human construct. There are many of such around the physical earth at this point. Their origins are of your physical universe but not necessarily of your time reference.) “Many” could be five or five thousand. There was no point in trying to find out. But why around our earth, was it … (They are focused on the planet earth and humans just as you observed the others, and for the same purpose. Shall we move on? The answer will come soon.) My curiosity accepted gladly.