Sam: "It felt like one superior intelligence. Very, very powerful sense of intelligence. All the rest were nothing."

Sally: "The others weren't human like that one. The emotions — The one that speaks to me is a mix. He's a crossbreed between them and ourselves."

Whitley: "The one that speaks to me looks like a big bug. Big eyes. Doesn't look anything like a human being.

Sally: "Yeah, I saw those."

Fred: "Just a question. How many feel used?"

Sally: "Yeah."

Sam: "It could be harmless. Harmless use."

Mary: "You know, like for a whole year I was obsessed with taking some little piece of the world with me. I took my children to the park and I collected every little seed and rock and twig I could find. My whole room looked like a nature study. Then half of the stuff turned up missing."

Whitley: "You know, I sometimes have a thought of what will I take with me."

Mary: "I do too. I keep thinking that one day this will all be done. But my thinking is automatic: I want to have this so my children will know how it used to be."

Sam: "I feel the same way. I want to enjoy what's left here, because it won't be here much longer. I want people to understand that."

Mary: "My sister was left with a thought twenty years ago, and she still believes it strongly, that by the year 2000 this world is going to be a totally different place. It won't necessarily be a bad place for a lot of 'em. But for some of 'em who can't adapt, survival will be very difficult. But it will be a good place. The world will be a more stable place or maybe a different place."

Sam: "More artificial."

Mary : "Truly different from this place here. That's for sure. She says that it is for the young and strong. She doesn't quite know whether that means physically young and strong or mentally young and strong. But it will only be for those people."

Sam: "In fifteen years?"

Whitley: "I have a feeling it's right on top of us, too. My feeling is that a cycle sped d up recently, a lot. It's going fast, not slow." (I wish to add an aside here to expand on why I made that statement. In the form of what can only be described as vivid bursts of information, I have received a great deal of material about the perilous condition of the earth's atmosphere.