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! Fat Pat's : Pizza & Subs Buy any Sub and a Large Drink and Receive the Same Size FREE (must be of equal or lesser value) Dine In or Pick Up Only ■ Offer Expires 12-2-90 IHours: no'X'% I Sun. - Thu. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. 474-7832 ®Fri. - Sat. 11 a.m. -1 p.m. 838 No. 27th 3 wonder about other voices I checked my watch again and settled back into my comfy chair. There’s nothing like a good comfy chair: it rocks, it swivels, it eases the mind. Another two or three minutes and the three of us were supposed to get together from the safety of our homes. We would use images of the door in the bar as a trigger to help make the telepathic link. I surveyed my room and its familiar contents. The computer, the books, some cooking things and a bedroll. Easy to pack, easy to move. I had been in a sleeping pod for a while, then found an aban doned room and fixed it up. The pod was nice out too cramped, too many people. Here, I could relax and finally get started on my own work. Except for this whole business we were involved * * * * * Mary? Drake? Are you there? Yep, I’m here. Me too. (I had gotten used to letting those two do most of the talking. Or thinking, or whatever it is.) Everyone all tucked in for bed? Ha, I’ll be up all tonight working on a program. I’ve been out of the network too long. How about you, Karen? I’ve been wondering about hhbdhmb ■■ something. I used to always be so I scared when I heard all those voices I and I didn’t know what they were. I almost forgot about all this once I I finally met the two of you. So what’s the problem? Sounds I like you’re doing better now. That’s the whole thing. I haven’t heard any of the other voices lately. Just you guys, when we want to. (Whoa, she was right. I used to hear more voices than ours as well.) Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day. (Sure 1 was.) Do you think something has happened to them? Wouldn’t they still be trying to reach us? (Flash! I had something valuable I to contribute, for once.) Maybe we I shouldn’t do this. That could be [ how they got the others. If there’s something going on. But why? They had us right there We went straight to their head quarters. And they let us walk right out. It doesn’t make any sense. What if they didn’t know who you were? (That was Karen. She hadn’t been with us on that little trip.) But they did, they told us all about it. the whole research pro gram we told you about. I don’t know. I want to meet tomorrow. This whole thing wor ries me. The park again? Great. Sure. (Mary and 1 spoke, or thought, or whatever at the same time. It isn’t like a conversation, where people talk one at a time It gets a little confusing, but this goes faster.) I was the first one at the park It gave me some time to think on things, to try to sort this out. Karen’s idea still was bugging me. She was right. We all used to hear a bunch of voices earlier, and now it’s just us three. And there had to be a reason for it. Why would the company come back after us all? We haa been right there in front of them, the perfect opportunity. How had they found the others? They might know where the three of us are now. Or maybe they only could find us when we made the mental link. If that was so, they might already be after us. + • t * ♦ I don’t know how long I had been there, but it was definitely too long. They were more than fifteen minutes late. One or the other I could understand, but I started to worry’ with both missing. I rose and made another circuit of the park, trying to think if I had misunderstood the plans made last night. That couldn’t be. It was ten in the morning, today, here in the park. There’s no way any of us could have messed it up. A second circuit, and still no sign of them. I rounded the third corner and saw two men walking toward me. I paused, then figured if they wanted me, they would gel me no matter what I did. Peterson is a senior psychology and philosophy major and a Dally Nebras kan staff reporter and columnist. This is the 10th in a continuing series. \ . ‘ ‘ ■ • ' • ’ ■ . .. ■ - • ' Football Players, You're Only Se 1 Part Of The Picture. I PAT TYRANCE of the NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS I Toyota honors senior Pat Tyrance, inside linebacker of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, as a recipient of the Toyota Leadership Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership in the fields of academics, athletics, and community service. Pat Tyrance will receive the Toyota Leadership Plaque, and the University of Nebraska will receive a $ 1,000 contribution to its general scholarship fund. g The example Pat Tyrance has set is an inspiration ? to us all. And as a leader in its own field, Toyota ^ recognizes the discipline and unrelenting effort ii takes to excel. So next time you watch a college football game, look a little closer. There’* a lot more talent on the field than you realize 7 love what you dojbrme’ « ®TOYOTA I