VIIIT WAS LIKE WAKING up in Heaven. Melted into the arms of the first person I really trusted, and just let him hold me. It was the best feeling I could have. It had only seemed like moments for me, but it was all I really wanted out of this world. At last, I started bringing him up to speed. “OK, Sol, we did this crazy math-logic thing with those fiction books, and wound up marrying them to your old 'past lives/entropy' theory. Then invented some 'mysterious beings' that live in a world outside of ours, but able to affect us in ours. The core idea went long the lines that they were just using us to store memories, thoughts.” Then I stopped. What hit me felt like a brick wall falling on me. “Hey Sol.” “What?” I sat up away from him again and looked at him “We forgot a book.” “Wait. I