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clothing were gathering plants and roots. It was mid-morning and the sun was burning down from a clear blue sky. It was mid-summer and soon the temperature would rise close to forty degrees, far too hot for work.
    They stopped working. She saw a skinny girl slump into the semi-shade of an acacia tree. The girl’s mother produced what looked like a potato. Oval, white, the size of a small fist, she handed it to the girl, who passed it on to her smaller sister. The younger girl bit into it, wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, and returned the food to the older girl.
    Several others were also eating. When they had finished, the whole group gathered up the plants and tubers they had collected and headed for home, carefully wending their way past bushes that carried needle-like spikes. Reaching their village, the women moved to sit in the shade of small, conical shaped huts made of what looked like very long, grey grass.
    With a jolt, Tullia felt herself swoop down and land on the red sandy ground inside the village. She looked around for the two young girls she had noticed and a little way away she saw a group of young children sitting cross-legged in a semi circle. Opposite them and almost facing her was a slender young man. All were almost naked.
    The man looked up, right at her. She gulped. What to say? Then he looked back down and she saw his mouth move. He was speaking and she could not hear him. He had not seen her. She looked down at her legs. ‘Whistling Xzarze! Where are they?’ She jerked her head up as she realised she had spoken aloud. No reaction from anyone. They had not heard.
    Rapidly she ran her hands down her body, legs and feet. ‘I AM here. It’s just that I’m invisible! Blazing Novas, that was a shock.’ She took deep breaths and calmed herself whilst she reviewed the available data. She’d thought she’d been in a dreamstate, now she was as certain as could be that like her twin she was travelling Out-Of-Body. To be able to feel herself as normal meant she was in her InForming Matrix, the energy body that was effectively the blueprint for her normal, fifth dimensional body, and allowed Tazii to travel in the seventh dimension.
    She reassured herself by walking around. There were a lot of footprints all over the sandy soil. She thought she saw the tiniest depression where she stepped, but… she was not sure.
    Having moved to the side of the group she saw that various items were spread on the ground between the man and the children. There were nuts, leaves and berries, a small piece of creamy coloured root, a short thin stick of dark wood, a loop of string, a twig and then what had to be jewellery. She recognised a bracelet, two earrings and a necklace, all made from a mixture of what looked like white and dark brown beads. After a while, the man covered everything with a cloth.
    It was a memory game Tullia had often played. ‘HornsFlute! This is exciting.’ She walked up and sat at the edge of the group. When the man took the covering away she was ready to play. When the items were covered again she started whispering to herself as she recalled what she had seen.
    A sort of tickle on the crown of her head made her look up. The skinny young girl she had first noticed was looking at her, not straight on, but out of the corner of her eye. Tullia felt a shiver run through her. She licked her lips and, feeling stupid, waved her hand. The girl turned her head to look straight at her. Then turned back again, obviously trying to see out of the corner of her eye.
    Movement. Tullia saw the young man turn around and signal to the girl to go away.
    ‘Xzarze!’ Tullia cursed him aloud, and saw the girl turn back, look right at her, then shrug her shoulders and continue to walk away.
    Tullia was annoyed, she was sure she’d just been about to make contact with an energy sensitive girl. Very dark brown skins, black hair, lovely soft energy fields, a gentle people. The girl’s hair, an interesting