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simple interest in education.
    “Well, it is time for me to head to medical, so I am afraid that this conversation will have to come to an end.” Simry got to her feet and balanced with her cane.
    “Are you ill?”
    “No, but I need a massage to get to sleep tonight. My mind is remembering an old pain, and it will remain with me until I can purge it. I am used to it. Even with Reset’s help, this is as good it will get.”
    He offered her his arm again. “You need a massage to rest?”
    “Yes. That or a sedative. I just prefer the rubdown that reminds my body that my leg is no longer broken.”
    N’kad nodded and escorted her to medical. “Well, thank you for your time. The information you have given me has been most helpful.”
    Simry smiled. “I am glad you are up and around. Enjoy your new life as a Guardsman.”
    He bowed and pressed a kiss to her hand again. “You know, I think I will.”
    Simry watched him disappear down the hall before she hopped into the med center. “M’rin, I did it again.”
     

Chapter Five
     
     
    Simry tried to remain calm and centered as she faced the full class. Fifteen faces stared at her and one was increasingly familiar.
    “Astral movement is a fairly common talent. It can be anything from seeing visions of another room to sending your consciousness across the stars. It can be done in dreams or while wide awake. Not all psychic talents can engage in this manoeuvre, but for those who can, recognisance is a matter of sending your mind to a place where your body can’t go.”
    Simry flicked the screen behind her and images of men and women on life support scrolled across in a slow procession. “When you leave your body for a living, you need to know where you have put it. Most astral walkers who have issues in finding their bodies end up unravelling across space, a blip on a sensor until they fade away. Keeping control over your body and its location becomes a matter of survival.”
    Several of the students in the lecture hall looked ill.
    “Today, we will discuss your tether, protecting your body and holding your mind in a tight column. Who here is familiar with the relay system?”
    Three of her students raised their hands.
    “Well, for those of you who are unaware of the relays, they are talents and simply open-minded individuals who act as a secure transit point for information. That will include some of you. By going through the relays, you have a last point of contact and a first point of contact. You can literally find your way home by remembering the first and last place you went. The relays will do the rest.”
    One student called out, “Can’t the relays tell us which way to go?”
    Simry shook her head. “No. We are routed through a portion of their brain that they don’t use for active cognition. That is what makes them relays, they can compartmentalize their minds to let information simply glide through using their thoughts as locks similar to those on waterways.”
    She went on and explained how relays functioned and how they were of no help to anyone in an emergency. It was a lie, but it served its purpose.
    The next phase was to show how the psychic could more easily project themselves if their bodies were comfortable.
    A copy of her chair was on the speaker’s dais, and she settled into it. “Finding the means and method for making yourself comfortable is the key to being effective. For some, they curl into a ball, others cross their legs and meditate, others kneel and a few can even do this standing up. The astral projector attaches monitor leads, which alarm if he or she suffers any physical stress. This pulls the wanderer back to the body with a disorienting snap, but it gets you back where you are supposed to be.”
    She clipped the lead to her finger and another around her neck. With a deep breath, she relaxed, left her body and ghosted into the computer, projecting herself on the screen.
    “Now that I am in the computer, I can manipulate it to