“I’m not lying.”He put her hand on his chest, near his heart.“Scout’s honor.”
Helen laughed. She had created a monster.“I think you’re supposed to cross your heart with your hand.”But she liked touching him, too. A naughty thought crossed her mind.“You’re big for a Scout.”
His eyes smiled back at her.“You know what they say about big Scouts.”
Helen deliberately slid her hand down his chest.“What?”
He didn’t stop her hand.“Big…hearts.”
“I can see that.”She grinned.“You sure feel ready now.”
“Then lead the way, sweet Elena.”
She had never started a remote session this way before, but then, her monitor had never been quite this sexy or this bold. She turned toward the virtual-made room.
“How long before they get impatient?”
“We aren’t given any time limit for the first time. Our liaison said most of them are just mildly curious about this part. They’re more interested in the use of the serum later.”
“I assume those are the military types.”Of course they would be more interested in something that would transform their military personnel into better fighters.
Hades helped her strap into the RV chair. It felt strange, even though she’d been preparing for this, that she was actually going to try to remote view in virtual reality. She had to admit that the familiarity of the virtually-created surroundings was helping a lot to lessen her anxiety.
She studied him as he seemed to know what went where. Although this wasn’t the real man, she could sense his knowledge; there was no hesitance in the way he worked the different instruments.
“Tell me what I need to know,”he said, when he was done.
“You said you’re familiar with remote viewing, so you know that locating an object is a myth, right? The usual target in an RV session is a location and the viewers check in on the scene at that specific moment in time.”
It was widely misunderstood that one could find an object or person, like a missing child, for example. Remote viewing was more a scan of the landscape during a point in time. What the viewer saw could then be readjusted to another point before or after the target. The beginners were given coordinates on which to focus, but the more advanced viewer needed only an agreed-upon thought. Hence, the envelope tonight. It didn’t matter whether there was anything sealed inside, as long as the target was universally agreed upon. It was important that Hades understood this concept before they started.
Hades nodded.“Time and specific events, especially one that left few clues, are hard to pinpoint.”
“And that’s why no matter how accurate the viewer is, the army will never send any personnel in to verify. The chances of them going into a trap or that the event is bogus are too high.”Helen paused, startled.“Son of a bitch. That’s what you’re here for, isn’t it? You’re someone in whom they have a lot of trust. Sure you don’t have the ability to remote view on your own, but you can come along in my head and verify, and they’ll believe you more than a regular monitor. Why didn’t you tell me before?”
As always, his expression didn’t let on about how right her guesswork was.
“When were you going to tell me?”she insisted.
“When there is something to verify,”he said.“I have nothing to tell you or anyone else at the moment. I’ve explained it to them, that seeing a target is easy for a remote viewer. Accessing it at the point in time mentally, then physically, is difficult.”
Helen’s eyes narrowed a fraction. How did he do that, simplify a complicated concept with a sentence? She was also beginning to learn to read between the lines when it came to Hades’ imparting information.“I sight the target. I describe the location as best I can. Then…”She chewed on her lip, eyes widening.“Then your experience will help in deciphering the true location and we work in tandem in locating the item in time and event.”
This was something phenomenal, something remote viewers could never do alone. She was learning more about Hades: he was someone with enough covert experience to be able to recognize important targets, maybe even had experience going there in real time. That would simplify locating, for example, a military compound. Describing one usually didn’t help, since most military compounds looked about the same, but when there was someone who knew exactly what to look for to double-check the location…
His lips curved knowingly, as if he were catching some of her racing thoughts. She was eager to test her theory, to see whether this was going to work. She settled back into the chair. Let’s see how much he understands the ins and outs of actual remote viewing.
“You already know I have a trigger code. An experienced viewer can access my travels with me that way. My monitor was more like a guide. I could hear her no matter where I was. It’s almost like virtual reality, but she couldn’t read my thoughts or see what I was looking at. During each session, she told me when to break off and monitored my return.”
He nodded.“She locked on to your location through your trigger code.”
Helen tried not to show her surprise. There was that simplifying skill again.“That’s one way to describe it. She could observe and make reports on my progress that way. But I also learned that I could shield myself from her.”She challenged him with narrowed eyes.“And I’m not telling you how I did that.”
He nodded again.“Fair enough. What’s next?”
“When the right moment comes, and don’t even ask me how to explain it, I bilocate. That’s the term they use. I’m physically here but I’ve traveled there.”She made a face.“Not that it can’t get more bizarre than what we’re attempting to do today—being physically in one place, virtually remote viewing in virtual reality, and mind-traveling to a third location.”
“We can call it trilocation,”he suggested in an amused voice.
