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QUETZAL'S FLOCK situations which otherwise would have gone badly. He felt a surge of mocking acknowledgement. He fell asleep still clutching the Pentacle. He could have expected that it was the appropriate time for him to go visiting. He found himself floating in the utter vastness of intergalactic space. This was not simply the space between the stars. This was something outside of his experience. He was far remote from the familiar orbital paths and transits he had known in the Solar System. Far distant from him were many tiny spiral galaxies. He knew that one of them had to be his own - and yet, he was totally separated from it - utterly alone. He didn't know how he knew which one, but he did. It might have been the nearest, he couldn't judge - it wasn't important. He looked around him, trying to determine the purpose for him being there. Everything was emptiness, excepting for one star which stood remote from any other, isolated in the vastness. It was immense, powerful, pumping out a blue-white incandescence. He should have been blinded but he wasn't. It was majestic and defiant. An aberration which had resulted when the nearer galaxies had been created. Somehow it had been isolated. The scene changed and he was in utter darkness. Every pinpoint of light had been extinguished. There was no sound, everything was at rest - no movement. Nothing to excite the senses; stillness. A voice said mildly. "Kane Ashford - this will be your punishment if you resist our will and disobey!" It was almost a whisper, but after the total stillness, it sounded like a thunder clap. The voice continued. "You are beyond the expanding edge of the universe. You are far more distant than the star you saw earlier. Light from the galaxies has not reached this place yet, nor will it do so, until the universe is a thousand million of your years older. Can you doubt the power of the Masters of Psi? Can you doubt the power of Quetzal, who is our brother? We have brought you here - can you defy us? Would you like to remain with your thoughts for a thousand million years? With only your thoughts, longing and waiting for the moment when you will see the first pinpoint of light to break your darkness? Not knowing if we might not move you further away, because it is our will to do so?" The voice stopped and he was left for an eternity to consider the questions. At the end of the eternity, the voice thundered again. "That was a period of ten of your minutes. Consider the subject of obedience, my servant." The voice faded and they turned the screws by leaving him in the state of nonstimulation of the senses, until he thought he would go mad. Abruptly, the great fireball of the blue-white sun, seared his eyes. He wept with relief. He thanked them abjectly. They gave no sign of hearing - but he was sure that they did. 134
QUETZAL'S FLOCK CHAPTER 21 He didn't awaken immediately, there was still more to come. He was turned around to face the remoteness. The blue-white star faded from view. From the direction of the distant spirals, a figure was moving towards him. He recognised him as he drew near and Kane Ashford felt the panic rising as he saw that it was - himself! Quetzal cocked his head to one side in a familiar gesture. His smile was almost sympathetic. "So, we meet face to face at last, Kane Ashford. The last time I saw you as a separate entity, was when you hovered on the edge of my trap on Mars and decided to enter to make the great discovery which was going to alter the concepts of the human 135
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