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The Light - Twenty into the bottom of each foot, the chest, and the back and top of the head. “They do a lot of things,” Ted told Barbara, as he regained his composure. “They stuck something in my feet, up closer to the toes.” “What was put in there?” she asked. “T don’t know,” he replied, “but I’m being told it will make me big and strong. And they put some kind of drops in my eyes.” “What was the purpose for that?” “T don’t know. My eyes were hurting like they’ re real dry and irritated. Somebody keeps telling me that I’ll be all right, they'll be finished in a minute and that I can go home.” One of the grays then brought the woman the headphone device. She placed it on the body and activated the counter equipment once again. “T have remembrance!” Teddy thought, “I have feelings again!” A moment before he had felt nothing and known nothing, but now he was aware of who he was. He remembered everything he had thought and felt when he was in his original body, and with a surge of emotion he mentally cried out that he wanted to go home. But there was more for him to endure. The grays helped him up from the table-he was now clearly back in a body, the body they had created and activated-and led him out to another room. Waiting for him there was a different person, a man dressed in a purple suit and long cape, tall and skinny, more human-looking than the others. His skin was almost an orangish-white, a melon color, and his eyes looked strange because there were no eyebrows above them. His dark hair, which made a sharp widow’s peak on his forehead, looked unnatural, as if it were painted on his head. The tall man jerked Teddy up impatiently and seemed to have a nasty disposition that made the boy very uncomfortable. But before anything else could happen, another man entered the room. This one looked totally human, with kind eyes and short, blond hair. He wore blousy, old-fashioned clothes of emerald green trimmed in gold and white. The blond man said something to the bad-tempered man that Masquerade of Angels 202 The Light - Twenty Teddy could not understand, but he got the impression they were arguing about him. Then the dark-haired man angrily stomped his foot, whirled around, and left the room. The blond man squatted down beside Teddy and put his arm around the little boy’s shoulder. His gentle, soothing, almost sensual actions calmed Teddy’s fears. The man began to explain what had been going on, telling Teddy about the lockers and the procedures that had been per- formed. Speaking as if the child were an adult, the man told him that he would be able instantly to absorb this information. He explained that there were periodic changes in the evolutionary pro- cess of the original Teddy, and that from time to time, for different reasons, such a switching-out procedure would be necessary for Teddy to fulfill his purpose here. He told the boy that he would be visited occasionally to make sure everything was progressing as it should, for the man was studying the beginnings of a new approach to something Teddy couldn’t really comprehend. He also told Teddy that something had been done to his mother, and that the genealogical structure of both his parents had been used along with something else. Teddy understood that he was part of an experiment for the continuity of life, in some way involved with the final stages of growth. When the explanation was finished, the blond man took Teddy’s hand and led him through a doorway into a large auditorium area. They stood together on a stage, and as Teddy looked out at the crowd of beings in the room, he saw many more of the gray people. There were also numerous animals present among them, including some creatures he had never seen before. They were all gathered there as an audience, waiting and watching, Teddy thought, with their attention focused on him. From the opposite side of the stage, Teddy saw the dark-haired man walk out leading two other young children, a boy and a girl, who were also naked. The red-headed woman also arrived, and she took the two children from the man and brought them over to where Teddy and his companion stood. The blond man picked up Teddy in his arms and held him out for the audience to observe, and then he did the same thing with the other two children. “Everybody, this group of people that was watching,’ Ted Masquerade of Angels 203