IV"BEN?" I ASKED TO THE void.
Again, "Ben?"
"I'm here, John." A voice in the misty semi-dark/semi-light swirling gray that seemed to move around me.
"What's 'here'?" I asked.
"I don't truly know." Ben replied.
"How come I can't see you?"
"Something to do with your thoughts and mine. If it helps, I can't see you either. Just a bunch of swirling gray mist." Ben sounded calm, or more likely, a disciplined calm. "We wondered where you had gone to."
I worked to calm my own mind. "So how did you find me?"
Ben paused, "Or you found me? This is just a deep meditation state. And I don't even know that this is real, other than it seems we both want it to be."
I was silent for a time at this. "Can you tell me what happened?"
"Ben?"
"Ben?"
"John... Sorry... Some data... can't share... can'
