Necroscope 9: the Lost Years
“For of course he, too, was an enemy of A.C. Doyle Jamieson. The extrasensory presence of both of them was too much; their combined esp-auras - undetectable to the great mass of mundane mankind - radiated out from them into the rainy night in every direction.
One direction would have been more than sufficient: that of the garage across the road.
There came … an intrusion! Which the Necroscope felt at once. But instead of avoiding it or flinching from it, he answered back and tried to get into the mind that was getting into his. Trevor Jordan felt it, too, the blunt groping of a strange and strangely gifted mind, and said: ‘Wha—?’ But Harry held up a hand to still Jordan’s inquiry, husking, ‘Listen in if you want, but be sure not to open your mind to it for now. I’ll let you know when.’ And: Huh? The intruder grunted like a pig in Harry’s mind, no longer a mere whisperer but a sentience surprised that the Necroscope had recognized his presence and was reacting to it, but not in the way ...that the intruder had anticipated.MoreLess
One direction would have been more than sufficient: that of the garage across the road.
There came … an intrusion! Which the Necroscope felt at once. But instead of avoiding it or flinching from it, he answered back and tried to get into the mind that was getting into his. Trevor Jordan felt it, too, the blunt groping of a strange and strangely gifted mind, and said: ‘Wha—?’ But Harry held up a hand to still Jordan’s inquiry, husking, ‘Listen in if you want, but be sure not to open your mind to it for now. I’ll let you know when.’ And: Huh? The intruder grunted like a pig in Harry’s mind, no longer a mere whisperer but a sentience surprised that the Necroscope had recognized his presence and was reacting to it, but not in the way ...that the intruder had anticipated.MoreLess
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