Maybe, if we could capture more of the ray guns, we could afford to test one of them that way, but that was something of a moot question right now.We ...ushed our courage to the maximum and climbed into the empty craft. We were looking for more ray guns. We found four in a strange rack along one wall. We grabbed those and got the hell out of the flying box. Our nerves could not take any more of being inside something that we did not understand.We moved back among the trees and discussed our. She felt helpless and vulnerable. "Where's Barry now?" What's the matter? Can't wait to get into the sack with him, hmm? Do you want me to go get him now?" N-no, I was just asking," Well, I'm sorry to say you're just going to have to wait. He left just before I came in here and he says he won't be back until after noon."Amy didn't know whether she should be relieved or disappointed. Barry wasn't around to be seduced but neither was he around to enlist his aid. She wished her brother had a cell. .. presence I suppose is the word, behind the incursion. I felt it though none of the other Seers did. It's malevolent and does not mean us well." Does Seer Jemima know about this?" I asked."Yes, she does, but wanted to wait for further correlation of data before broaching a hunch by an apprentice to Morgana," Abigail replied."I'll let Morgana know about your hunch," I said. "There's a lot more going on than this meeting would seem to indicate." Thank you," she said with another one of those. "You missed mass, but I'm sure Brother Ofim has a few minutes to spare if you'd like to be baptized."It was a joke, of course. Converting others was not something that was done. Never had been. At first, because the beastly races surrounding the Poles were not fit to mingle with, let alone serve the Lord God. As ties had grown closer between those Kikker living near the Poles, however, His Grace had gone the extra step of forbidding it. Something about a bad history of such practices. As Felek.