Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 46 — page 67: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION clairvoyants had seen a prob- ability path that included you and in which you played - a very prominent role—be- cause of what you are. But he also saw the way you arrived here, so from that we knew that if we got you here our- selves, in any other way, then we might easily affect the probability variation of the path on the Fan.”’ Most of it was too new, too strange, to sink in immediately. It was as though all the old man’s words and the incred- ible possibilities that they signified were hanging in some strange, dark’ nimbus about Patrick’s mind, sending down tentative threads of themselves, only to brush against certain sensitive spots upon the shell of his conscious- ness. Because of what you are, the old man had said. But what was he? He asked this question. Whittam eased himself up from the chair and then moved it back to its original place against the wall. “I’m not well up enough in the technical side of all this to be able to rightly say, Patrick,” he replied. “‘But you’re some- thing pretty important. Or could be, if you knew exactly how to use all your powers. If you feel strong enough I 66 could get someone else to have a talk to you—someone who’s up on all the jargon and who can do more than anyone else to help you use your powers the right way.” “I’m strong enough,” said Patrick, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed. The old man handed him his clothes from the back of a nearby chair. “Get dressed, then,”’ he said. Patrick struggled with his shirt. ““Who is this man that knows what’s what ?”’ “A doctor at the Psycho- centre.”’ **What!” Whittam chuckled. “I know how it sounds. But the Psycho- centre is about the only place for this particular man, since he’s a psychologist.” **But if I go back there the security men will——”’ “Will know nothing about it,’ the old man finished for him. “‘Oh, I know what you went through all right. I know all about your escape.” “*T was delirious ?”’ Whittam shook his head. ““No, you’re just forgetting that 'm a telepath and can get most of your surface thoughts straight out of your mind. But there’s no need to worry about going back to the Psychocentre. The security comicloooks.conn