Lehal Library

Chapter 10 SEEING ONE I couldn't see anything at all, save the narrowest dark blue-green glimmer of dawn in the east, I whispered back to Axelrod: "What am I supposed to do?" "Just observe, we'll debrief later," he responded, "But it's really important now to observe complete silence from this point on. And do not move unless I tell you to. They detect heat, noise, motion like mad." So, I was silent. There we were, four of us sitting silently like rocks ourselves. But suddenly, the two twins gave some kind of hand signal. "It's begun,* Axel whispered. "Please, please! DO NOT make any noise, and do not move unless we tell you to." My eyeballs rolled around trying to perceive what had begun. T couldn't see anything unusual at all, save for what appeared to be some gray fog forming up in the direction of the lake. X thought it was just morning fog coming up. This fog continued forming for about five minutes, and suddenly I saw what had "begun," For in a moment's eye flicker the gray fog changed, first into luminous neon blue, and then into angry purple, At that point. Axel and one of the twins put a firm hand on each of my shoulders, and it was a good thing they did. A network of purple, red, and yellow lightening bolts shot in all crazy directions through the "cloud", and 1 would have jumped up if not held down. And then, there it was. Somewhat transparent at first, but in the next second, as if fading-up (like the movie term) out of nowhere, there IT WAS! - solidly visible over the lake whose reflecting waters I could now clearly see, And IT was GETTING BIGGER! I don't really know what I had expected, but I had assumed that what I would see, if anything, would be something like a