Lehal Library

Well, Axelrod began, if I had told you in advance, would you have thought t was loony?" Axel asked" He had a point, AND ALL OF THIS WAS REAL! I closed my eyes as waves of goosebumps cascaded through my body. I couldn't control them, so I broke into tears. "Shall I leave you to recover?" Axel asked. "If I can be by myself yes, but if one of those god-damned muscle men twins has to stand and watch me blubber, don't you dare. No way do I want THEM to see me in this condition." "They would understand perfectly. We all have experienced a considerable amount of emotional surprise." "I can't believe that either of those twins would ever think about crying. . .". But suddenly, through my emotions I started laughing, almost uncontrollably. "This is SERIOUS, isn't it?" I finally managed to blurt out. But my thoughts were going a mile a minute. The bottom line: We are not alone - and some ultra-secret, presumably a governmental agency, goddamned well knew it! My glee changed swiftly into anger. Shit! Shit-shit-shit! "Well," I snarled, "whoever is in charge of these matters hasn't managed them very well as far as us ordinary public types are concerned." "I'll concede that, Ingo," Axel said. "Frankly, no one has known what to do, and many mistakes have been made." "Yes, and all in the name of what - privileged information in favor of the few, of the military, of scientists, or what?" "Sometimes. But the problems are more than you can imagine." "Don't give me that. Axel. Here you drag me into a very scary situation, ask me to utilize my thing in a very strange way, and ask me to see FOR YOU something I cannot imagine? "Get outahere? I don't buy it. I don't like this, I don't like it at all." Axel and I sat staring at each other- Neither of us was smiling. "Do you want to leave, then?" he finally asked. "Me will do whatever you want." OC course I did NOT want to LEAVE! I wanted to understand. "Why do you need my services, Axel? Oust answer that one question. "If that stuff is on the Moon, why don't you just send along another Moon mission to have a good look-see . . .". But the awful truth dawned in a burst of light. I looked at him. "Unless they . . . I can't believe this . . . unless they somehow have told you to stay away, and somehow shown you they mean it!" This time Axel was neither smiling nor not smiling. I got out of my chair and started pacing the length of the table.