Sam rockets towards him and then...Dowling just suddenly isn't there.
It's not that he moved at superspeed, though. No, he just reached into Sam's brain and messed with his sense of motion, causing him to only think he'd been flying straight. Then he'd reached into the part of their brains responsible for processing visual stimuli and had simply removed himself.
That's when they hear his voice. It echoes in the alley around him, not coming from any particular direction, like they're in a movie theater with surround sound. Except it's not something they're actually hearing with their ears. He's reached into the parts of their brains that process sound now.
"Judging from your insignias, you've time traveled back to this time from over 1000 years in the future. You're the displacees, the ones pulled into this universe. The Coluan was responsible for sending you back, yes? I flagged him as a potential threat to myself and my colleagues, but I didn't think he'd retain continuity of personal identity long enough to send you back here, not with all the fluctuations in the timestream. He must have found a way to communicate with his alternate selves as each one formed. Fascinating."
He clicks his tongue.
"When all this is over, I'll have to swing by the 31st century and see if a version of him still exists -- there's bound to be a way to contain his brain in a casing and use it as a biological supercomputer."
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It's not that he moved at superspeed, though. No, he just reached into Sam's brain and messed with his sense of motion, causing him to only think he'd been flying straight. Then he'd reached into the part of their brains responsible for processing visual stimuli and had simply removed himself.
That's when they hear his voice. It echoes in the alley around him, not coming from any particular direction, like they're in a movie theater with surround sound. Except it's not something they're actually hearing with their ears. He's reached into the parts of their brains that process sound now.
"Judging from your insignias, you've time traveled back to this time from over 1000 years in the future. You're the displacees, the ones pulled into this universe. The Coluan was responsible for sending you back, yes? I flagged him as a potential threat to myself and my colleagues, but I didn't think he'd retain continuity of personal identity long enough to send you back here, not with all the fluctuations in the timestream. He must have found a way to communicate with his alternate selves as each one formed. Fascinating."
He clicks his tongue.
"When all this is over, I'll have to swing by the 31st century and see if a version of him still exists -- there's bound to be a way to contain his brain in a casing and use it as a biological supercomputer."