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Author's Notes (AN): Yay! You're all confused. That makes me very happy at least I'm not predictable. I just got my hair cut so now maybe my thoughts will flow freely from my brain....yeah right anyway. You all asked for it (or at least most of you did) so here it is. The clearing up of the confusion begins....that made no sense. Oh well here it goes anyway. (And no this isn't the whole story I'm just sick of you all saying that you don't understand. So this is just to make you all shut up.)

Confucius Say: Porta-potty should not be used as bomb shelter.

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Chapter 8: The Suffering Soul

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Asher stood on the deck of the Maru just behind his sister and this Captain Hunt. (AN: Gotta' say it like your hacking up a loogie.) He couldn't believe this, free room and board and no work. It was like a dream. He looked out the view screen as the Andromeda appeared.

{"I have given life and form to the first time traveling fruit in all the universe!!!"}

He gasped and doubled over, clutching his head in pain.

"Asher?! Asher what's wrong?!" Maegwin went to her brother's side as did Beka.

Beka ran a scan over him as the pain slowly subsided to a dull ache.

"I don't know. I..I think I had a vision..or something anyway."

"A vision? What kind of vision?" Maegwin asked staring at her brother withe untamed curiosity.

*Asher is standing rigidly on the Maru's deck. He turned to look at his sister who doesn't seem like his sister anymore she's like..an illusion. He collapsed to the floor.*

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"Seamus!!!"

*Asher whipped around. The scream was to high pitched, to frantic. It sounded like someone was tearing their throat out to do it. He began walking down the street towards the sound.*

"Seamus please help me!!! Seamus please don't leave me!!!"

*He began running towards the screams. 'What the hell are you doing? Don't go towards the danger you idiot!' He ignored the voice in his head and kept running. He reached the end of the street..and then wished he hadn't.*

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"The device is putting out a Pruignert Wave."

Dylan, Tyr, and Beka turned and looked at Trance. "What?" Dylan asked.

"A Pruignert Wave. It was named after a famous, or rather infamous, Perseid. He used them to torture, well anyone really, he was mad."

"I thought Perseids were friendly to everyone."-Beka

"Well this one obviously wasn't. A Pruignert wave is used to directly converse withe someone's subconscious. Their thoughts and dreams and nightmares can all be altered by whoever controls the waves. It's very hard to actually have complete control over someones entire subconscious even for a short period of time. Someone has gone to great lengths to do this to Harper."

"Wait, if it's used to control our dreams then why isn't it controlling ours as well as Harper's?"-Beka

"Maybe whoever's controlling him only wanted to control him and made the device able to only interact withe him or maybe they simply weren't able to control all of us at once."

"Okay, so now the question is: who would want for Harper to go through this?"-Dylan

"Maybe our little friend has more to him that he would like us to believe."- Tyr

*Asher is a few beds away from Harper's, which they are all standing around, Maegwin is sitting beside his bed.*

Beka looked over at Asher's bed sadly. "I don't think he's a bad kid. I think he just got caught up in this somehow." She turned to Dylan. "But I'd still like to know why he called me 'Aunt'."

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Confucius also say: Never wear sandals while walking through cow dung.