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accompanied at all times by at least three armed men.'
     
    'That's ridiculous!' protested the Doctor.
    'You say that about most of my decisions, Doctor,' said Lethbridge-Stewart, turning back towards the helicopter as if the
    conversation was at an end.
    'And I'm usually right,' commented the Doctor under his breath
    as the Brigadier clambered into the cockpit.
     
    'I think we saw history last night,' said Billy Fleming. 'A vision of what's to come.' He gestured in the direction the lane was taking them. Susannah smiled the same spaced-out smile she'd had since
    about 7.30 that morning. 'The Great Gig in the Sky.
    That's what
    they'll call it.'
    'And, man, we were there,' said Billy. 'Right in the centre of it'
    Chuck nodded, deep in thought. 'I wonder what that sky thing was - literally, I mean, because I don't want to deny the validity of the subjective experience...'
    Billy and Susannah glanced at each other and smiled.
    Both thought Chuck odd, but over the last couple of days they'd grown
    to like him. He was an American, slightly older than their nineteen or so years, and had claimed to be into the music more
    than the drugs. His detachment - his desperate attempts to force his 'square-peg' character into the round hole of the festival scene - was charming rather than embarrassing.
    'It was, like, the ancient gods coming out of the stone circles and having a party' Billy started coughing, which at least interrupted his free-form interpretation of the message of the lights in the sky.
    Susannah giggled. 'No, I thought it was like the Earth Mother lying back and -'
    'I don't think I really want to know this, said Chuck. He stopped and looked around. It was now getting dark, and, he had
    to admit, one country lane looked much the same as any other.
    'You sure we're going the right way?'
    'Geographically or spiritually, do you mean?' asked Billy with a knowing smile.
    'Geographically,' said Chuck, rising to the bait as usual.
    'Yeah, of course we are.' Billy nodded confidently. 'I think.'
    'Spiritually, we are definitely going the right way. No one's going to control the kids any longer,' said Susannah. 'We'll do what we want. It's like Glandring the Forehammer said -'
    'It's from The Lord of the Rings, maaaaan,' said Billy, giggling.
    'You've got to break down the barricades of your own soul before you can even think about -'
    'We're lost,' announced Chuck finally. 'I hope your friends in the caravan will wait for us'
    "Course they will,' replied Billy. 'Faz and Justin are, like, totally together. Still, we ought to stop soon. We could walk for miles in the dark and end up off Rose's land. I don't wanna get hassled by the locals'
    Took,' said Susannah helpfully, pointing a purple-nailed finger through the gloom. 'There's a barn. We could get some sleep there, wait for morning'
    It was the first sensible thing Susannah had said all day, and it took Billy by surprise. 'What, you mean, like, go for a roll in the hay?' Susannah gave him a withering look.
    'Well, we'll just have to hang loose, see how the evening progresses,' he mumbled, ever the optimist.
    Chuck was the first to the barn. It was an old building right on the edge of a field, the holes in the ancient timbered roof having been hastily made secure with corrugated iron.
    The door was padlocked, but there was a large window around one side, the panes of glass long gone. With barely a pause Billy pulled at the rotten wooden frame until the whole unit came away in his hands. He laughed like a school kid as he tumbled backward.
    'Well, I'm sure Mr Rose won't mind,' said Chuck. 'We'll try to put the frame back in place tomorrow morning.'
    Susannah sighed, flashed Chuck a brief you-haven't-got-a-clue-have-you? look, and pulled her long tie-died skirt up around her waist. Chuck found himself staring at her shapely legs as she disappeared into the barn, then realised what he had been doing, and was grateful that no one could see his red-faced embarrassment in the