The Place Beyond
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“Now just make sure you don’t erase it,” said Jim.
“Very funny,” said Matt, who was in fact secretly worried about doing just that. It would be just like him to mess everything up now. But as it turned out, he didn’t.
Matt also lived the closest, so they went to his house first. Naturally his parents were stunned at the cavalcade of people showing up in the middle of the night, two of whom had been missing, but to their demands Matt only said, “I promise you there is an explanation. We just need to get Jane’s family too, and also the police.” He elected not to tell them about his new relationship just yet; they had been looking forward to him meeting a nice girl for a while, and it didn’t seem prudent to dump this on them right now, on top of everything else. In any event, with everyone else backing Matt up, his parents had little choice but to wait until the desired audience was gathered, and so everyone ended up at the police station, where the appearance of Dave and Jim resulted in several officers crowding around to see what the explanation could be. Matt told them all, “I hope you’re ready for this,” and activated the sphere.
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The recording had been played several times now, but General Edmund Spencer still got a sense of amusement out of it. Seeing Captain Chapman again explain the recording spheres, he wondered at how apparently no one had yet taken the logical leap that the story about the corridor equipment preventing any use of security cameras was a lie. There were cameras all right, but only for him, because he didn’t trust anyone else with them. That fellow Charlie had the right idea there, he figured, and it still wasn’t enough. Well, he would just have to do better.
Luckily, the man’s major mistake had not been hard to figure out. Never simply try to eliminate a new player on the board. Instead, study them and see if they can help you, even if they have no idea they’re doing so. And so far, these kids from another world were showing themselves to be quite promising in that regard. Finally, he shut the video off. Tomorrow would be a full day, just like all the others, and he’d learned well by now the value of sleeping when he could. His mind was his greatest weapon, and it wouldn’t do to harm it in that way.
As he faded off into dreams, the plans that were constantly swirling around in his head made one last pass, now with these ambassadors, for lack of a better word, added in. He went to sleep with a smile on his face. Most promising, indeed.
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