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The Shasta Caper, Chapter 50, part one

Chapter Fifty

Samuel would never be able to look at Nanny again the same after his experience. It was like that. Once you remembered a past life that clearly that person you experienced it with just didn't feel the same to you anymore. All the memories of that life were now in the open. Yes, much of it faded with time, but the course was set now. The relationship was forever altered.

He had loved Nanny in another life, but not as a man, but as a woman. An Indian woman. On many levels he was glad of the experience, despite the emotional pain it had brought at first, because once more he was understanding more clearly how the earth really worked. That it was not about money, fame or future, but about relationships. And it again reminded him of how shallow the lives were of some, who saw their lives as defined by what they owned, rather than by what they were on the inside...the golden part of the self...loving, caring, kindness.

"Samuel." Jimbo interrupted his thoughts.

"Yeah. I'm okay. We better get moving while we can."

They continued to follow the cover that was allowed through the thinning band of trees on the hills as they descended towards the vast lake they had seen from before. 

Again, Samuel mused at the vastness of this realm. He looked up and saw vast continents above 

them, huge bodies of water and resplendent forests and mountains. It was a world of beauty. Great beauty, and yet there was part of it that was dark and sinister.

He realized that the Ancients knew more than he ever could and respected their decision to allow the Floating City and their inhabitants the right to live there, but he also knew that the deeping darkness of those who inhabited it must sooner or later spell their doom.

God was patient, but sometimes it took a thorn to remove a thorn, and if those who gathered in the heights of the sky were dead set on not changing, not becoming part of this beautiful world, there would come a day when their freedom would end.

As they gathered beneath a towering tree, filled with odd-shaped fruits, they heard a vast  humming sound. They looked up and immediately ducked for cover. It was the floating city again.

They hid beneath some thick shrubbery and watched as the vessel would cast  huge laser like lights upon the ground below, as if hunting for something...probably them...then it would continue on.

"I got a bad feeling about them." Jimbo growled.

"Whatever they are." Nanny added. "I don't think bad is the right description."

Samuel said nothing. He was noting how Al was frowning. 

"Nanny, even the most horrible of people will one day see the Light." He reminded her.

"Maybe so, Mister Angel Guy, but I don't think it's this lifetime for these ones?" She countered, bobbing her hair around to get it out of her eyes. Frustrated, she grabbed it and began knotting it together.

"I'd give a million dollars right now for a rubber band or a hair clip." She grumbled, finishing up the knotting of her hair. She looked at the guys. "How do I look?"

On their look she frowned, then sighed. "Remind me not to do this again."

They laughed, then as the city vanished from view in the distance, they sought the path and again descended.

The giant lake was clearly in view when they stopped next. They rested next to some high boulders and thick shrubs, so they could stay out of sight from the floating city and any flying vessels above."