Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 110: what you’re looking at

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WON’T the basic tenets of the Multi- plicity it was as good as saying that his whole life had been based on falsities. He must have been mistaken. That was it. Not expecting any resistance at all, he had been so surprised when the other opposed him, that he had magnified the incident out of all proportion. Gwun tried again. “T have told you that it is foolish to resist. You cannot possibly oppose my trained Will with any chance of success. You are only making things harder for yourself. I order you to come along with me.”’ His Will took a firm grip on the other as he prepared to kadth for the second time. Horror overwhelmed him. They did not budge. Exerting all his trained abilities, Gwun strove to mas- ter the other, but he was up against a force that was unique in his experience. The Will of the creature not to go with him was unbelievably strong. 109 POWER “TI won’t go with you,” said his intended victim. “I don’t like you. You go,” and Gwun found himself helpless in the grip of the other. Before he realised what was happening, he was kadthed right off the planet and made an uncere- monious appearance in the Council chamber. His report created an up- roar. It was garbled but em- phatic. On no account should an attempt be made to in- corporate that accursed planet within the Miultiplicity. It would be suicide. Gwun even went further. He recommended that they leave alone that whole section of the universe in order that the inhabitants of the planet could expand without contact. “Their Wills,’ he babbled. “I’ve never seen anything like them. They are undeniable. Their Will-power is beyond imagination and the awful thing about it is that they have no awareness. It is so alien and irresistible that we could never face up to them. Leave [email protected]