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right now. You’re used to dealing with the third-dimensional world. My mother, who was a medicine woman, taught me about the other dimensions. We live ina complex universe, Morgan. Most people aren’t aware of the other dimensions, but those who are sensitive or psychic often tap into them.” He spread his hands. “Without years of training, though, people don’t know how to access these other dimensions. I’ve learned to turn on my psychic equipment when I need it, and turn it off when I don’t.”
    Houston smiled dryly. “I still have to live the bulk of my life here—” he pointed to the floor “—in what we call the here and now. My abilities don’t hinder me, they only enhance who and what I am, for the benefit of all who live here in the third-dimensional world. Real time, in military terms.”
    Morgan shook his head. “It all sounds so crazy, Mike, so far-fetched.”
    â€œI know. Anyone who connects with the other dimensions without proper training can get into a lot of trouble with it, too. People in mental hospitals who hear voices and see things we don’t—they fall into that category. Psychosis can occur. What they’re seeing and hearing is in other dimensions—the good, the bad and the ugly all mixed into one. The problem with the mentally ill is that they don’t know how to screen it out or shut it down. I was trained to do so. Open it up and shut it down, and stay sane in the process.”
    Morgan grinned at him. “You’re one of the sanest people I’ve ever encountered, Mike, and you know it.”
    â€œSure I do. But this is another side of me, Morgan, one I’ve purposely cloaked so you aren’t aware of it—you and most people. I know other individuals who are trained like myself, and none of us go around advertising the fact. Usually, we work behind the scenes, quietly doing what we do. The universe is made up of energy. You might say we’ve been instructed in how to utilize and work with this energy. Metaphysics means seeing into the unseen. Seeing that which isn’t physical. That’s all.”
    â€œWell,” Morgan muttered, “if Annie’s necklace hadn’t been a crucial part of Jason’s return to health I’d have already told you that this mission was dead in the water.”
    â€œUnderstandable, boss.”
    Sighing, Morgan picked up the brief and frowned. “This woman, Kai Alseoun, has a BCD from the Navy, and we’re going to fund her trek across the globe to find a quartz crystal mask and bring it back to the Quallah Reservation in North Carolina?”
    â€œThat’s it in a nutshell, yes.”
    â€œI like your idea of forming a department in Perseus for this.” Morgan stared at him. “I have a gut feeling this isn’t going to be the only mission requiring metaphysical skills that we’ll fund. I see there are two more totems to find for the Cherokee people.”
    Mike gave him a sour grin. “With your permission, I’d like to call our new branch Medusa. You know, the woman with snakes in her hair who is pictured on the hero Perseus’s shield? According to some interpretations of Greek mythology, Medusa’s skill was described as being able to freeze men who looked into her face. The real truth was that Medusa was an enlightened being, a woman of immense power and a healer of incredible repute. I would like to name our new department in her honor, recognizing that women are powerful, and supporting them in this way.”
    Shrugging, Morgan said, “Fine with me. And you’re running this bureau, Mike. Not me. I really don’t understand your secret world of metaphysics, but with Jason’s recovery, I’m not going to say it doesn’t exist. I do believe in miracles.”
    â€œWell,” Mike murmured, “you may think of metaphysics like that. It can be miraculous in the right hands.