your relationships to maintain the illusion of being unfathomable." She
squeezed my arm, meaning this applied to me.
"This is a danger for me," she continued, "and why I‘m asking you
not to reveal my identity to anyone, until I tell you otherwise."
"I won‘t, but aren‘t you… protected?"
"My integration process is a partnership: I do not know enough, and
am otherwise not yet capable of properly applying what I do know to keep
myself and my children safe."
"Understood."
"To be clear about our circumstance," she let me go, "you are free to
discuss your own journey with anyone, but I caution you again that it will
cost you those relationships. You might not be ready for that. Not all at
once."
"I recall."
"Learning from me will cost you that anyway, but it isn‘t a loss. As
you leave your reasoned agreements behind, you won‘t be interested in
maintaining contact with people on the same level you met them, and you
won‘t want to speak about your lessons until it‘s time. It would be useless,
if you did—who would believe you?"
"What time is that?"
"If and when you are guided to teach someone who has the energy to
learn," she said, with a twinkle in her eye. "Now," she declared a switch in
her focus, "for an average person to remain ignorant of their Assemblage
Point is to guarantee that they remain average, with all that this implies.
For the Stalker, controlling the Assemblage Point is about more than
controlling perception: they know that it is literally a connection to Spirit,
which they can work with directly by earning the energy required to move
it at will." She slowly shook her head, pondering.
I cocked mine.
"That‘s not incorrect, but it‘s not entirely accurate. Let‘s just say that
saving energy by behaving properly makes it easier to move, which
includes working directly with Spirit, who offers advanced lessons
through the principle of the Minimal Chance."
"I understood all of that."
"There‘s hope for you." Refocusing, she slowed our pace to a lover‘s
stroll, without the romantic ambiance, as if to allow more of my daily
allotment of energy to pull my head out of my reason.
"We‘ve covered the perceptual mechanisms that affect your
behaviour, so it‘s time to make it more relevant to you. Glass of wine at
Bridges, while we do that?"
"I‘ll probably need a bottle."
