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SURVIVAL STRATEGIES "You will be very surprised, | think. It is a place not far Upon her return from duty, Zeena was keen to __ from there that you will find us. We basically come from continue her explanation of what they were doing and your future. It does not matter if it is six minutes into were about to do on the new breeding program and why __ your future or six years; if you can get to one, you can get it had become such a priority to her people. In order for to the other. But, for us, it is not as simple as that, for me to understand, or try to understand fully, another we also come from another dimension—not quite the lesson was apparently necessary, so she suggested once one you will shift into, but close. So we are what you again that I make myself comfortable as it was likely to would call dimensional time-travellers. " take some time. "We—myself and others like me—are in fact a whole “For you to understand the problems that we have, it is new race, or, to be more accurate, a newly reconstituted best that I tell you a little more about the world you live race. Further modifications are still required before we in. Some of this will be a little hard to understand, but can achieve our goals as a people. some other aspects will ring a bell when you start to look "This is one of the reasons for our travel to your time at them in a different light," said zone, and, indeed, the reason for Zeena, who was sitting opposite my others being here who are also sleeping cubicle. experimenting with their biological I had just finished another small nap "The reason behind so make-up, although they have far to make up for my forty-hour marathon . different goals behind their without sleep. many abductions experimentation than we do. Zeena continued. "You. will occurring on your "The reason behind so many remember some time ago | promised abductions occurring on your planet to tell you about the other side of planet Oven the last over the last few years of your time is yourself. This concerns the cycle of few years of your time that this is the last chance for our the atom, me part that is su tne is that this is the last race sand other races of ETs with understood by your people, or, shou _ problems similar to ours—to interact I say, not yet fully understood by them. chance for our race with you as a race before you change When this is understood, a whole new and other races of ETs to a form that will no longer be of use dimension, or dimensions, wil with problems similar to us. Yes, it is that close! My open up for you; for in this instan 9g own surrogate mother was of your of time between the pulses o to ours—to Interact time and race..." atoms lies a world within worlds. with you as a race "We could go further back in They are in fact paralle before you change toa time, but it is this now that we dimensions to your own—at leas fountain need. I will not complicate longer be of use to us." to the one where most of you live matters by trying to explain that; your ‘now’. These dimensions are we would be here for many more so close to your real ‘now’ tha days. My race still has a problem you can slip in and out of them to overcome. We must breed a without even knowing you have race with stronger limbs and done so! There are sometimes oxygen-processing units." little clues that tell you what has “Lungs?” | enquired again. just happened. This dimension-slipping has been going "Yes. We have been using a mixture of your species’ on since you first walked the Earth, only now it is | DNA and chromosomes along with our own. Our blood becoming more common to your people. It can happen __ used to be very similar to yours—and still is, with a little almost every day to some, but they are basically unaware = modification—although we really only have one type as of it. This is happening because you are awakening to you would know it; well, two, but they are both very your true selves. much like your A-negative. We can modify most things, "You are close to a major dimension-leap, the like of | but what it adds up to is that we are not going to go which you have never before experienced; a leap that will looking for problems—we already have enough of them. bring you closer to my people. This is what we have all oo been waiting for! How many times have you searched for something in a room and could not find it? You go Editor's Note: back some time later and there it is, right in front of your This book extract was published in 1997 in NEXUS vol. 4, nose; there is no way you could have missed it when you __ no. 2, and also in the compilation Strange Times. Contact searched. You see, you are not always where you think © NEXUS Magazine to obtain a copy of Alec Newald's book you are. The trick is to be fully conscious when you CoEvolution (reviewed in NEXUS 4/03). For more make these mini-leaps and be aware of where you have information and details, visit our website aann Leen sh many abductions occurring on your planet over the last few years of your time is that this is the last with you as a race before you change to a form that will no Editor's Note: This book extract was published in 1997 in NEXUS vol. 4, no. 2, and also in the compilation Strange Times. Contact NEXUS Magazine to obtain a copy of Alec Newald's book CoEvolution (reviewed in NEXUS 4/03). 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