After The Move

                            By:

                         Fox Cutter

3/21/96:

Standing in a back corner of the office building where
College Club, a company that actually hired me, I pulled out a
small black box.

Flipping it open, I ran my thumb over the single red button
on the inside, and looked into the sky. "I hope you two got
this right." I said, directing my comments to a two of
Prid's best R&D people, who currently where operating from
Luna.

Pressed the red button, a counter lit up, and started
counting down from 20. I set the box down, and took a few
steps back. As the timer hit 0 there was a flash of blue,
and red, accompanied by a large gust of wind, pulling in
towards the box. In less then a second the effect had
fizzled out.

I reached out into the area over the box, and surprisingly
found exactly what I was looking for. Picking up the box, I
opened the now relocated fold, and step through onto Prid.

A blast of cold air hit me as I exited one of the many folds
that ran through Marble Hall. Getting my baring, I made a
few turns, then entered an transit tunnel.

After another three minutes in the tunnel, I got off, made
a few more turns, and hit my front door.

I fingered in the code, and stepped inside the closet sized
room. On the far wall was a semi-transparent, glimmering,
curtain of light. Or for the layman, a teleport curtain.

Stepping through it, I was moving over 600 miles to another
such room, just out side of my house.

Keying in that code, I popped opened the front door, and
stepped inside. "Oriana?" I called out.

She looked over the railing from the dinning room, "Oh, Fox,
you made it back?"

I shrugged, "Well the brother's fold moving device worked
like a charm. Though you don't sound to excited to see me."

Coming down the steps, she tugged on her shirt a bit, "I
am, I was just getting worried about you."

I meet her at the bottom of the stairs, "Well no need, I
made it to San Diego alright, and looks like I'm going to
fit in perfectly there."

"That's great," she said, hugging me, sounding a bit better.

I nodded, "I have the fold set up in a back corner of the
building, it should be safe enough there."

"Now all you need is someplace of your own to put it."

"Ya, though that should be the last move. The brother's said
that any more the two this close together could destroy the
fold entirely."

She nodded, her hair falling over here eyes, "I know. I
wasn't even sure it would work for this first one."

"No need," I said, "This looks like it could be the best
thing of my life."