Part 2

  

Chapter 15

 

A New Beginning

 

Cassie spent the next couple of months experimenting in her lab. She had finally built her own lab behind the Dojo on the estate. There she moved all the exotic experiments she had previously conducted at the college labs.

 

Cassie’s doctors, using various tests had determined that her visual cortex was now operating normally and that her eyes did not appear to have any damage.

 

The pain that she had been feeling was symptomatic of her cortex relearning how to see. They could not figure out why she was having problem with this. Cassie thought she knew. The cortex was interpreting her ESP sense as visual input rather than ocular input. As a result the extra signal from her eyes was being acting like noise to the visual cortex and the brain perceived it as pain.

 

Cassie tried spending an hour a day closing down her ESP senses and using her eyes.

 

Cassie sat back in her chair with her eyes open and with her ESP senses pulled completely in. She knew that in front of her was a desk with a book on it. If she tried, she could visualize it completely down to the molecule level as she had done that using her senses before closing them down. But no matter how hard she tried she could not visually see the desk and book.

 

She opened her ‘senses’ and used them to scan her eyes and the nerves connecting them to her brain. After days of doing this she was beginning to be able to see the nerve impulses from her eyes to the visual cortex.

The days, weeks, and months that she had spent exercising these senses had stretched her range and sensitivity tremendously.

 

Cassie had reached the point where she could actually sense the light photons from the desk and book entering her eyes. A side effect of this observation was that, as she had previously proved, the observation could affect what was being observed. She found this so interesting that she quit actually trying to see.

 

She held up her hand and slowly began to affect the light photons being reflected from it.

 

“Cassie!” Grace was scrambling toward her. Cassie had to really concentrate to continue what she was doing.

“Stop Grace!”

“Your hand!”

“What about my hand?” Cassie asked.

“It is gone!”

“Are you sure? Look closer.”

Cassie turned slowly moving her hand so it was closer to Grace.

“Oh, I see a wavering in the air, like a heat wave on a hot pavement. What are you doing Cassie?”

“I am experimenting with light.” Cassie said as she let go of her concentration. To Grace, it appeared as if her hand had returned. Cassie thought for a minute, then once more began to concentrate on her hand.

 

“Grace, what do you see now?”

 

“That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I can’t see your hand but I can see your arm and wrist where the hand is supposed to be.”

 

She reached out and ran her hand down Casey’s arm until she reached where the hand was supposed to be. As her fingers touched Casey’s hand they too seem to disappear.

 

With a startled exclamation she jerked her hand back. Grace stared at her own hand, it was all there.

 

Once more she reached out to touch Cassie’s hand. Her fingers once more seemed to disappear. This time she did not jerk them back. She moved her hand up and down and around Cassie’s hand. It was all there. Grace bent closer. She could not see Cassie’s hand or her own fingertips. But she could feel Cassie’s hand.

 

“Cassie what are you doing?”

 

“I think I am canceling the light. It really takes a lot of concentration.

All the light hitting my hand is being polarized and frequency changed about 90 degrees so the light you should see is not getting to you. I am doing it to the light before it is reflected so the reflected light is cancelled out by the incoming light. What you are seeing is like the wavy light you see from a hot road in summer because the cancellation is not perfect.”

 

“Wow! That would be great in combat.”

 

“Yes, and for spying.” Cassie stated.

 

Grace brought her hand back shook her head and returned to her station.

 

Cassie sat there scanning her hand which was fully ‘visible’ to her senses even though Grace could not see it. By simply concentrating a little harder she could sense the photon energy mass that was bouncing off her hand.

 

Cassie got up from her seat and began to set up a device to detect infrared rays. Grace joined her as she had to move some equipment from one place to another.

 

“I want to experiment with infrared; I bet that the Night Vision Device would ‘see’ my hand while your naked eyes don’t. Infrared is emitted by the source while light is reflected. Infrared is just heat being emitted by my body and is not reflected so this device should be able to ‘see’ it.”

 

“I might be able to stop that also but I think we need a way to ‘see’ them first before I start experimenting with them.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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My thanks to Grumpybear for his editing and proofing help. But the final results are mine and all criticism should be loaded onto my shoulders.

 

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