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. Unfortunately, I could not control what I
was imagining. Also unfortunately, I was transported to those places. I
panicked, and that only made it worse. I could easily have been destroyed,
for I wandered through the objectified jungles of my subconscious and passed
some time in places where the bad things dwell. After I came down I found my
way back home, turned up whimpering on Julia's doorstep, and was a nervous
wreck for days. Later, when I told Random about it, I learned that he had
had some similar experiences. He had kept it to himself at first as a
possible secret weapon against the rest of the family; but later, after
they'd gotten back onto decent terms with each other, he had decided to
share the information in the interest of survival. He was surprised to learn
then that Benedict, Gerard, Fiona, and Bleys knew all about itthough their
knowledge -had come from other hallucinogene and, strangely, only Fiona had
ever considered its possibility as an in-family weapon. She'd shelved the
notion, though, because of its unpredictability. This had been sometime
back, however, and in the press of other business in recent years it had
slipped his mind; it simply had not occurred to him that a new, arrival such
as myself should perhaps be cautioned.
Luke had told me that his attempted invasion of the Keep of the Four
Words, by means of a glider-borne commando team, had been smashed
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