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opened my eyes, but I couldn't see! I looked up to where the ceiling glow balls should have thrown their dim lights, but saw only darkness. “They're gone, all of them,” I muttered. “Oh, God, Joe. I'm blind!” I grabbed his arm with both hands. “My head is burning.”
    “Give me your apron!” I heard Joe say. He pulled my hands off his arm.
    “Joe!” I cried. Fear ate at my thoughts.
    “I'm here, kid.”
    I laid down and pressed my head against the damp ground for relief.
    “What're you doing?” I heard Tony say.
    “Making a cold compress,” Joe told him.
    I rolled my head against the muddy ground and felt consciousness slipping away.
    “Is he dying?” Gloria's voice was choked.
    “Be quiet!” Joe ordered. “He doesn't need to hear that.”
    Am I dying, Spirit?
I sent.
    It depends.
    Tell Great Mind to let me reincarnate with Willa.
    I only ask Great Mind. I never tell The Unity what is the best course to take.
    I felt a blessed cold weight being pressed against my head. “Joe?”
    “It's a compress, kid. I made it with mud. Now try to relax. You're shaking like a leaf. This should cool down your brain.” I heard the tightness in his voice. “Sleep if you want to.”
    “OK.” I groaned and let sleep come…and dreamed I dwelt in crystal seas. I was a male dolphin courting a she-dolphin who I knew was Willa. We swam side by side, and water like silk caressed my body. We dived to coral mansions and swam through arches built of sea fans and crimson fire coral. We swooped to the surface for a breath and watched the sun on the horizon throw orange chips across the velvet table of the sea. It dropped below the surface and stars rushed in to fill the void, as though Great Mind had shattered a lucent dome into a profusion of glimmering diamonds. I dived beneath Willa and turned on my back. She met me and we mated…
    I opened my eyes and hoped my dream didn't show as a physical manifestation. I glanced at my groin. No. It hadn't.
    And I could see again!
    In the light of glow balls overhead I saw Joe. He sat with Tony and Gloria on a stack of rotted boards beside me.
    “I can see,” I said.
    Joe ran a hand across his forehead. “OK.” He let out a long breath. “How's your head?”
    “Better.” I got to my knees.
    Joe stood up and helped me to my feet.
    “Are they gone?” I glanced down the far tunnel.
    “All five of them,” Joe said. “I'd say that's quite a power you've got there.”
    Gloria smiled and approached me. “How do you feel, Jules?”
    “Not bad.” I rubbed my temples. The burn was gone. “But I could use a shower.”
    “We could all use a shower!” Tony slapped my shoulder. “I think you saved our lives.”
    “He did,” Joe said.
    Gloria went up on her toes and kissed my muddy cheek.
    I smiled at her.
    She winked and lowered her head shyly.
    Tony squinted down the tunnel and stroked his beard. “What did those tags want, anyway?”
    “They – “I started.
    “It's government business,” Joe said. “Classified.”
    Spirit? Did I grow my tel power?
    You did that, my alien friend. And your stretched mind will never regress to its former state. You are more prepared now for your future encounters.
    What future encounters?
    I can sense the turning of time, but only
Great Mind knows the possible fantail of
possibilities.
    Thanks, buddy. That narrows things down.
    You're welcome…tag.
    I shook my head, gently. My sarcasm was lost on his alien mind.
Do me a favor?
    What is it now?
    If Great Mind deigns to send predictions
about my future, will you let me know?
    As usual, Jules Terran, you ask too much.
    And as usual, Spirit Kubraen, your answers tell me nothing that can help me.
    You continue to ask the wrong questions. Will you live? Will you die? When will you ask what to learn in your life-cycle?
    When I'm not concerned with what's waiting around the next corner!
I cut the link. I hate to argue with know-it-alls!

Chapter Four
    The briefing by the W-CIA on planet Alpha was