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It's white. Bright light It looks like liquid, but it'sjust energy, is what he said. Phil makes his living working with electronics. You would think he would have seen something in that control room that he could recognize. But hewas totally in the mind of his 14-year-old self, and everything was strange, mysterious and impossible to explain. D: Didheshowyou anything else? P: A little black box. Said itwas mine. Said I couldn't keep it, but Ln renee den wha. encounter with the owl. Apparently he had been shown it on several different occasions, almost as though they were waiting for him to recognize it. P: It's little ... not square but longer. Kind of black ... and shiny. Smooth. I think it opens, but Icouldn't figure out how. There's something inside, but Idon't know what it is. He said it's mine ... but Ican't take it What does he mean, it's yours? He said I made it once along time ago. What did you think about that? Whatever he said. I wasn't going to argue. It seemed okay. I thought it was kind of neat. But it opens somehow. There's something inside ofit. I think he told me, but I think Ijust knew. Where did he get the box? I don't know. I think somebody handed it to him. He said, "Here! Look atthis." Isaid, "Whatis it" He said, 'This is yours. You built this .. long ago, when you were part of another race. This is to remind you of your heritage." I said, "What is it?" I don't know what he said it was. Something. Some word. He said .. (He had difficulty finding the sound.) Obs ... Obsinite or obs- something. That's what he said. Some kind of stuff. I think he meant that was what it was made out of. He said itwas for me to remember my heritage. That I was a part ofanother race. Itwas heavy. Smooth and black, and kind of shiny. Ithink there's something inside of it. I was afraid to try to open it. I thought 240 The Kers ofthe Garden he wanted to show me. This sounded like the same black box Phil had seen after his D: What did it look like?