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- Date: Sun Mar 24 1991 08:37:40
- From: Ian McMcMcMc<slap>
- To: All
- Subj: RAE CrossPost Chapter 4
- Attr:
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- *** Chapter 4 ***
- Cheryl wheeled around and discovered that Jeffrey had sprouted a
- perfect pair of wings, feathers and all. It was one of his favorite
- diversions, which he had developed after weeks of testing. He picked
- Cheryl up from behind; his arms fitting into the somewhat innocent
- space below her breasts. She was very light because he had decided
- that she should be, at least for now. She didn't complain about it.
- In an instant Jeffrey cringed down, and leapt into the air.
- It was too fast for Cheryl, who felt that the exciting part had
- been rushed. They were already fifty feet above the ground, coasting
- over the trees towards downtown. With a few flaps, Jeffrey lifted
- them both to several times that altitude. "Nervous?" he asked.
- "No, I'm fine." It wasn't convincing. The only other person
- he'd ever taken on this tour couldn't take it too well. Jeffrey
- pitched upwards a little bit and slowed down, then gained some more
- altitude, and generally swooped around a bit. The scenery was
- breathtaking, and the feeling was unparalleled.
- "Afraid of heights?" Jeffrey remembered how he had thought of
- the Device as a tool to eliminate such fears, the last time he asked
- that question. Cheryl didn't answer.
- With nothing to lose as far as Cheryl's opinion of him, Jeffrey
- did the only thing he could think of to remedy the situtation. He
- dropped her. Cheryl screamed, fell a few feet, and stopped in midair
- at Jeffrey's command. She couldn't have done that herself. He
- stopped in midair and had her float up to him, facing him. "You see?
- There's nothing to be afraid of. You can't get hurt here. And I
- wouldn't let you get hurt anyway.
- She didn't look resentful. She looked down at the streets below,
- then reached down as if to see what was holding her up. It always
- seemed to take a while for people to get "the idea"-- that the
- constraints of reality no longer hold.
- "It can be like an amusement park-- thrills without danger, or
- whatever amuses you." Cheryl was now smiling. It was time for
- Jeffrey to try and promote that idea. It was no fun here with someone
- that didn't understand, and it looked like Cheryl was beginning to.
- Jeffrey continued. "Take my hand," he said. "I think you've got the
- idea."
- She did. Jeffrey's wings disappeared. A moment later they
- started falling, from the five thousand feet (funny, we weren't that
- high up a moment ago) to the town below. Jeffrey looked straight at
- Cheryl. She looked up at him. It had worked! She felt enough
- confidence in him to be able to take her eyes off the approaching
- Earth. He couldn't keep his feeling to himself.
- "I'm impressed, Cheryl. You've got more inside than I credited
- you for. Congratulations." He pulled her to him, and held her tight.
- She wrapped her arms around him, and looked down.
- Just before they reached the earth, a large pool of water
- appeared below them and they splashed harmlessly into it, coming to an
- almost instant stop. Cheryl, who had let go just as they reached the
- water, paddled back over to Jeffrey and grabbed onto him again. He
- liked the feeling where she was pressing against him.
- Finally, she spoke up again. "Can we try it again? Not the
- fall, I mean, but flying around? I'd like to try it out for myself."
- Jeffrey nodded. A moment later, they were both in midair, and
- Cheryl had developed some nice orange feathers. Jeffrey followed
- Cheryl as she flew back towards the company, swooped down over the
- trees, and shrieked with excitement. "I want to try landing", she
- said. "Will you go first?" Jeffrey agreed, and lined up in front of
- her, feet down, heading for the flat roof of IDT's main building.
- Then he was sitting in a chair, with the blue box on his lap. He
- looked at the top of it. "Timer's... No, there's still time left,
- must be..." He looked towards the door. His supervisor had walked
- in, and the noise had tripped the sensory-monitor device, ending the
- simulation.
- "Good night, you two. Lock up the lab when you leave, OK?"
- Jeffrey and Cheryl both nodded. Jeff added a "Good night" as the
- supervisor was on the way out the door. As the door closed, he turned
- to Cheryl once again. "Always happens that way... There were only
- about 30 seconds left anyway."
- "That certainly seemed like more than four and a half minutes!",
- Cheryl exlaimed.
- "It always does seem longer," Jeffrey agreed. "It would be
- impossible to test, though, right? A simulated clock would go just as
- fast as you would imagine it to go. Everything else could speed up
- too. It just seems to be the way people think."
- Surprisingly, although it was a few minutes after five, Cheryl
- wasn't leaving like Jeffrey expected her to. Did she really feel like
- spending time with Jeffrey? Maybe her opinion about techie types had
- changed a bit.
- "Can we try it again? Everyone's gone now and I just had so much
- fun with you...?
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