‘Here!’ the echo replied. XXX ‘Nowhere… Lost…’
There was really someone else in here! ‘My God! Béla was suddenly excited. ‘It’s really, really, really cold out here!’ Beth thought, beginning to panic. ‘Where in the hell did she go?’ Béla wondered. Béla understood. Beth?’ Béla called out in her mind. As she remembered the garment, it seemed familiar, somehow -–like she should have known what it was when she saw it. Each of her fingernails were long and curled. Help me find her! ‘Is this what happened to Beth?’ she wondered. This nothing was so absolute! This time, she didn’t resist. This time, she didn’t resist. She realized she really was exhausted. ‘My God! She stopped, not allowing herself to rematerialize, and expanded her awareness, trying to determine ‘where’ she was. “I suppose that’s a natural reaction to being dumped into a vacuum,” Béla suggested.
