"Something like that. I don't know—"
"No. No. Or—wait—" He tried to focus his thoughts upon a far, faint calling that came from infinite distances. His name. An urgent summons—
It faded and was gone.
"There's nothing," Stuart said finally, and Kari moved her shoulders uneasily.
"No help there, then."
"Tell me one thing. What's the Aesir's power? Hypnotism?"
"No," Kari said, "or not entirely. They can make thoughts into real things. They are—what the race of man will evolve into in a million years. And they have changed, into beings utterly alien to humans."
"They looked human—giants, though."
"They can assume any shape," Kari told him. "Their real form is unimaginable. Being of pure energy ... mental force ... matrixes of electronic power. They were striking at you through your mind."
Stuart said, "I wondered why they didn't set some of their Watchers on me."