Continuum

Stevo got up and strode down the street back toward the tunnel. Mike ran after him. As soon as Stevo got to the last building he placed his hand just so on a certain place on the building. Going to the next, he did the same thing. Mike could just tag along, waiting patiently for his father to explain what he was doing. It did not take long to know.

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"Mike! Listen to the sounds around us!"  Mike heard his father speaking to him in his head! he sat down on the metal floor, put his head between his knees and shut his eyes. Didn't help. He was seeing a blue area all around him while all his father's thoughts rushed around like insects. He caught a vision of Mary, then a forbidding man named Lerno, who was somehow dead.  He could not keep the thoughts from coming! He got up and ran to his father, taking him by the shoulders, shaking him.

"Pops! Stop it! Stop it now!"  Mike was becoming more afraid by the minute.

Stevo turned in shock, hearing his son's voice in his head, much louder than the shout in his ears!  "We can transmit our thoughts! We can hear each other's thoughts! Amazing!"

Mike had a look of rising terror on his face. "What are we gonna do now, Pops?"