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Message no. 1
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: ODIN - Private
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 05:37:37 +0000
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I just had a word with Okami. She told me she had contact to Reba,
Bull's daughter. This is strange, as Bull told us the kids were in a
safe place. Shit, by now I should know how "secure" these holes are.

I will try to state what Okami gave me as direct as possible...

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Canis' voice sounds distracted, as if coming from a long distance. The
voice has a female timbre to it. "She reaches me. Her mind... is
touching me. They are all asleep, noone can see her. She's still so
small, just half a human, but everything's there... humans are strange.

"Although she's so little, Reba-Girl wields more power then most humans
I've met so far. She's here... I follow her. We move through the land,
fast, she's playful. Speeding through cities, irritating a few people.
This is fun, we laugh.

"Across the area they call United, although it is torn apart, through
the dead mechanical world in what is called native, through enormous
fields where machines work, no tear the land. Suddenly, there is a
blind spot. this is strange, I am sure I would not have seen it
wouldn't Reba-Girl lead me. I stop, try to see what can't be seen, and
finally, there... as Reba-Girl moves forward, she passes something.
Vanishes. I panic, can't sense her. There... if one nearly ignores it,
one can see. It is a living, a dumb living. Haven't seen it before,
it's intend being 'Hiding.... am not here... am not here...' " Canis
voice becomes deeper, more monotonous with the last words.

"I probe it," the voice became normal again, "and it insists not to be
there. Now that I feel it, touch it, I can press myself through it -
barely. It is strong. Tries to bite me. Not me, I am Wolf, I get
through. Behind it, there is Reba-Girl, and another large globe of
living. Master names it 'ward'. Strange name. Reba-Girl laughs, and
tells me 'Billy is in there... can you follow, or shall I help you?'
This one will be hard. Power - pure power. I touch it, swing with it,
try to pass - it repulses me. I bite it, tear it, it punches me again,
harder. Suddenly it screams, and I am through. That was a hard one.

"Reba-Girl leaves the plane, and I follow her. We are in a room with
life. The kids live here. In one corner is a computer-box of some kind,
and a stacked bed is here. The one hole-in-the-wall shows plains, but
my senses are blocked by the strong being outside. This place is
secured. It costs the human who makes it lots of energy, I am sure. And
knowledge. But the kids are safe, I think.

"Billy-Boy is here, and Reba-Girl. Billy-Boy looks at me with the same
feeling of Fear-Curious-Safe that he always had to me - he doesn't
understand the life. Just thinks in the Computer-Box-World. I can not
understand him. Reba-Girl is here, Happy-Safe-Bored.

"There is Fear-Anger behind the door - more then one human. The door
bursts open, and Marie-Woman, Xuxa-Other-Name-Woman and Tailspin-Man
are rushing in. Tailspin-Man relaxes when he sees me, and
Daytripper-Living appears, too, on the plane. Marie-Woman waves a gun
at me, and I smile at her. She cares for Reba-Girl, and for Billy-Boy.
This is good. I ask them to leave, as I want to talk to the kids, and
all but Daytripper-Living leave.

"How are you, you both?" the female voice asks, and suddenly it
changes, to a younger pronounciation, as it answers: "Wea fine,
Okami. Daddy zait we have ta stay heea, but'z booooring.... "

The voice returns to the more adult version you are by now used to, "I
talk to her and Billy-Boy long, and Daytripper-Living talks, too, and
we manage to show Reba-Girl it is as dangerous to walk the plane as
Daddy-Bull-Decker-Ork says it is in the other world, or the
Computer-Box-World. We talk long how she feels, and how he feels, and
Daytripper-Living promises to show them both tricks.

"Both kids are fine when I leave, but Reba-Girls wets her face, as
human do sometimes when the aura is dark. I promise I visit them again
sometime, and teach Reba-Girl a way to move Living-Force in another
way. I am proud she learns so fast. She is a mighty worker of
Living-Force when she is as big as the other humans. She is special."

There's a moment of silence, then Canis' normal voice continues, "this
is what Okami told me. I bet there was more, but I don't want to press
her. She seems to like Reba and Billy, on her own will. Wonder what
those number-crunchers think of "bound" spirits with free will...
should make one or ten datachips worthless..." Canis chuckles, then the
replay ends.
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