Chapter 2
Sometime during the night Roy woke up and instinctively knew that someone else was in the house. He slowly reached for the revolver he kept in the nightstand. The creak of the drawer sounded loud in the silence of the bedroom. He found the light switch and turned on the light. He spun the gun around and cocked it. There was no one in the room. He started to get out of bed and found that he couldn't stand up. Something was holding him in bed.
He knew that he was not alone in the house. Suddenly a great peace came over him and the fear and anxiety that he had been experiencing left him. The light on the nightstand got brighter.
"Please put your weapon away. We mean you no harm. Your weapons would have no effect against us anyway."
Roy tried to figure out where the voice came from. The voice seemed to be in his mind. It was as if he was hearing with his mind instead of his ears.
The voice started talking again, "You cannot see us. We are like anything that you have on earth. We are from a star that is so far away that your species will never reach it."
Roy tried finding out if this was a nightmare or if this was really happening. He peered into the other room trying to see if the voice belonged to someone in that room.
"Who are you? Where are you? I've got a gun and I'll give you one minute to get out of this house," he shouted.
"You do not have to speak, we communicate by thought. As I said we mean you no harm. We have come to your planet; I believe that's what you call it, to deliver a person that we found in trouble. Her space ship had encountered a super-nova and she almost perished. We reached her seconds before she was incinerated."
Roy tried to communicate with whoever was talking to him. He really didn't believe in this mind travel thing. This had to be an elaborate joke.
"Who are you and how come I can't see you?"
"This is not an elaborate joke as you where thinking. You cannot see us because we are like nothing your star system can even imagine. The best explanation that I can give you is that we are very much like your energy fields, but we are also very much different. You could never understand it as you have nothing like us in your entire galaxy. We are alive as you are and we populate as you do. Although we have no form, we do exist."
Roy scratched his head, "Why me? What is this person you are bring me?"
"We have been studying your planet for over one hundred million years as you measure time. We were surprised when life developed on your planet. We have watched you evolve and have tracked your progress. We have seen your actions against others of your kind and do not understand the reason for your actions. We know that you make weapons. We have been studying your own personal progress on earth. We thought that maybe we could learn from you why humans need weapons to use against each other."
"Don't you have weapons on your planet?" Roy asked.
"We don't live on a planet. We exist wherever we feel the need to be. We sense neither heat nor cold nor time. We have no need for what you call food. We grow by merging with others of our form. We are all as one; there is no male or female as your species has. Again, you wouldn't understand it, we merge our forms yet still remain as individuals. Our forms have never had a need for weapons. It would be abhorrent to us to destroy one of our own kind."
"Where is your space ship?" Roy asked, he was still not sure that this wasn't some kind of trick.
"We do not travel by any means. We will that we be someplace and we are. That is why I say that your species will never come to us. Your species would be extinct before you were near our place. Much about us you would not understand because nothing like our place or us exists in your galaxy. Even the place that we come from is different. There is no such thing as what you call dirt or water or sky. Do not ponder it. It is impossible for you to understand."
Roy let out a sigh, "Who is this person that you've brought?"
"She is an astronomer. She was exploring a super-nova. Her spacecraft was from a space station that your people had sent into space at a time in the future. She is from the year 2538, as you measure time."
"What about the others on her spaceship?"
"She was alone. The year 2538 is much different than your world."
Roy started gesturing with the gun, "Why bring her here? Why not take her to her time?"
Roy felt the gun being pulled from his hand. It floated through the air. As it neared the nightstand drawer, the drawer opened. The gun dropped into the drawer and the drawer closed.
"We have seen how your weapons sometimes hurt the person carrying them. We could have taken her to her time, but that would have raised questions. She would probably have been either thought mad or would have been arrested as a spy or saboteur. Her people would not be able to understand how her spaceship could be destroyed in outer space and she could survive. All humans are the same, no matter what time they exist in. Even you are thinking that you are dreaming this. The reason that we decided to bring her to your time is so that she could explain the trouble that you caused the generations before her and after you. We have tried to give you a chance to change to fate of all future generations."
Roy started to say something. He felt like a block was put on him, preventing him from speaking. He started to get afraid. This being had greater powers than a human. He could probably kill him and make him cease to exist.
"Do not be afraid. We mean you no harm. It is not our nature to harm things. I do not even know if it is possible for our form to hurt something. It has never happened before. We must go soon or we will cease to exist. After we are gone, we will make the form of the astronomer appear to you. We have removed her uniform and space suit. They are made of materials that your time as not developed yet. It would cause trouble for you if she wore clothes of a material from the future."
Roy used his thoughts to ask, "Has she been made aware of her situation? Does she know she's coming to a time over five hundred years in the past?"
"She has been asleep since we saved her from the super-nova. She does not know what we have done. Beware that neither of you let people of your time know that she is from the future. Your species is not ready to accept what you have seen tonight. It is only because we prepared your mind before talking to you that you accept it. We must go now. Our time is short."
Roy asked a few more questions and received no answer. He knew that
whatever that thing was, it was gone. So, they prepared his mind. That
explains the incredible feeling of peace that came over him before they
started to talk to him.