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They moved through the splendor of the Milky Way, through vast
lanes of fine dark nebulae, across a giant rift, past glowing clouds of
hydrogen and oxygen and bright expanding shells, rings within rings,
flowing out from intense stars in their center as if the star were a
pebble dropped in a pond of burning space, the planetary nebulae.
The Sagittarian region was well known to Pat and she commented
on the Lagoon, and Omega and Trifid Nebula suspended around
them. The local system they sought lay off a loose globular star
cluster, one of a crowd here deep in toward the center of the Galaxy,
the bright core around which the spiral arms of the entire Milky Way
ponderously swung.
He was part engrossed in the technique of moving his mind, part
awed by the variety and beauty of the Galaxy, and part lost in the
beauty of the mind within him. She moved with deft, clear thought
like the chime of crystals. The sensory images of Earth were gross
and distorted projections of the way he saw her, but she was at once
the beating rhythm beneath rock-and-roll and the abstracted clarity
of Chopin, the summer wind and the warmth of a wine. He held her
mind within his in a new union so complete that anything else was
mere fumbling.
"Thank you," he heard her voice say gently, and they sank down
toward the rings of small planets they had come to visit.

A colony from Earth implied an atmosphere, and several planets in

the group indeed looked fuzzy. The two Divers skimmed rapidly from
one to another in a general survey, selected the largest of those
which might support man, and sank down through its belts of
radiation.
The central mass of land lay beneath thin clouds, through which the
local sun shone in drifting spotlights over the cultivated areas and
irregular groups of cities.
"When we get closer," her voice said, "you'll see them walking about
inside their minds, which to us will be cloudy colored eggs around
them. They cannot see this, of course, any more than a non-Psi or
we ourselves on Earth. If it isn't obvious what they are thinking, we'll
have to go close enough to touch their minds with ours. But be very
careful before you do that. If they are very empty-minded, there is a
risk that their body magnetism will polarize your mind in temporarily.
You can get out again, but it's messy and unpleasant while it lasts.
And it's almost impossible to avoid being sucked into a medium's
mind, so I hope they haven't got any."
They were now over the main city and headed toward a large
domed building, apparently modeled on the Capitol.
"How did they get here?" he asked.
"We don't really know. The contacts so far have been by radio to a
very early investigating fleet. Obviously they must have come out
after the hyper-space drive was invented—we're over twenty
thousand light-years from Earth, here, I'm told—but they don't seem
to realize the difficulties of sending them the envoy they asked for.
Assuming these are the people that wanted one."
"Look, an old landcar—down there on the street!" he exclaimed.
The colony apparently still used ground vehicles. As they came
closer, they could see people walking in the streets and moving in
and out of doorways. There were no moving sidewalks, personal
vertijets, anti-gravs. It was cleaner but otherwise as old-fashioned as
the quarter in which Fred Williams lived on Earth.
"Imagine coming so far—to find this," he said, disappointed.
"You'll find colonies are usually several generations behind, but let's
not be too hasty," she said. "We can have a look around later. First,
let's see if we have the right planet and get this envoy matter out of
the way. Down through the dome, here."
They passed through the weather sheathing and curved girders of
the dome into an assembly hall full of human beings, seated around
a central dais. The colonists had apparently been inspired by
Congress. A quick glance at their minds showed they were
politicians, no better and no worse than the Earth variety, intent on
compromise and the exchange of benefits between the groups of
interests they seemed to represent. Several carried visibly in their
minds one fixed interest and a quick count showed that agriculture
was, in one form or another, the main business of the colony.
"I think that answers it," she said. "We'll have to check on the other
planets, but farm problems seem to be what they're most concerned
about."
He felt dissatisfied. "Shouldn't we touch one of their minds to see if
this is really the political center? It may only be a village meeting."
It seemed incongruous to use the wonderful reach of Diving to
gather little facts like this and to depart knowing nothing else. Then
again, he recalled the doctor describing it as a simple problem.
He felt her mind move understandingly within his. "All right, let's
touch the Speaker and see how far his authority goes. He'd be very
conscious of a superior Congress if there is one."
They moved together to the dais and brushed against the Speaker's
mind. The short, bald man sitting impressively in the center of the
bubble immediately leaned forward and banged his gavel. The entire
assembly rose to their feet and stood still. The Speaker slouched in
his chair. His mind shook off the influences of his body and rose up
to touch the two of them.
"Welcome, at last," he said.
"You have been expecting us?"
"Of course. Though why do you say 'us'?"
They moved partly from each other, overlapping only at the extreme
limit of their own minds, so that he could see there were two of
them together.
A gasp sounded in the Speaker's mind like an echo and there was a
movement throughout the assembly.
"Can they hear us?" Pat asked.
"Naturally. Psi capacity is a minimum requirement for the Senate.
Can't you hear us?"
"Only by mental contact."
"How odd," the Speaker replied. "Still, we ourselves cannot merge in
each other, only into housings."
"Housings?"
"But surely.... You must know. Of course you must."
"I'm afraid we don't."
"For heaven's sake, what part of the Solar System do you come from
that you don't know a housing when you see one? Ganymede,
Mercury, Jove, Venus, Bacchus? Although I was under the
impression that the entire system used the same terms."
"One moment," Fred said. "What system are you talking about?"
"This system here, naturally."
"We come from a different part of the Galaxy, a part that is called
the Solar System by those who live there."
There was a multiple rustling of thoughts which disturbed the
Speaker momentarily.
"Please, gentlemen, please! Will every Senator please quit his
housing so that we have less of these physical interruptions?"

Every member of the assembly sat down, relaxed his body and rose
gently above it with a clear and uncluttered mind.
"Thank you, Senators," the Speaker said. "Now. Do we understand
that you come from some other part of our galaxy?"
"Yes," Pat said. "We call it the Milky Way."
"So do we."
"You probably brought the name with you."
"You are suggesting that we came from you and brought the name
of the Galaxy with us?"
"Why, yes."
"I see. Would you identify this solar system of yours?"
Pat held in her mind a picture of the Solar System and the Sun,
embedded in the long spiral arm of the Galaxy. She made the image
of the Earth expand and contract in emphasis.
"Thank you. So you come from that little system, do you? How
interesting. And yet you have never heard of housings."
"We call them bodies."
"Well, so they are. I recall a primitive energy transmission we had
here long ago. We extended an invitation to the operators, but they
have not so far arrived. They came from your system, or so they
said."
"They did. They contacted you by what we call radio. We were sent,
frankly, to see what sort of envoy should be sent here to you."
"Ah! There has been a natural confusion. We thought you were here
from one of our outer systems where we are having some difficulty
raising the right housing. In fact, we were just debating the correct
form of grain to transmit to feed the housings on. They are in the
awkward stage of having sufficient minds to exist, but insufficient
nerve cortex to enable us to enter them. Our local representatives—
whom we mistook you for—have been having a very difficult time for
several hundred years, but we will soon find the answer. Now, we
will be glad to receive an envoy from your system. We are always
glad to receive representatives from our successful colonies. As to
the type of envoy, anyone with a broad galactic viewpoint will do.
We will, of course, be glad to offer housing and the usual facilities."
"When you say housing, you mean bodies?"
"Naturally. Bodies such as these Senators' or my own are the most
adaptable for this climate. If you go in to our Ganymede or out to
Jove you would have to use a local—er—body, because these human
types would melt or suffocate respectively. But the local housings in
silica and in ammonia crystal have proved quite adequate for normal
locomotion and physical work there. The normal facilities of the
sport planets would be available, to be sure. We are quite proud of
our slither bodies, I suppose you would call them, in the snow
worlds—quite a recent development. I fear we are not too luxurious
here, but galactic opinion forces us to make our housings do almost
everything they are capable of doing—walk, drive, cook and other
such menial tasks. But then at least everyone knows we are not
spending the revenue on our own housing—er—our own bodies.
Only last century we barely averted a political threat to make all
Senators' bodies sleep out in the open weather. But obviously it is
much more expensive to keep breeding new bodies than build a
shelter such as this one. Even taxpayers can see that."
The Speaker's mind echoed general agreement from the Senators.
"It will come as a surprise," Pat said clearly, "but our system believes
we colonized yours."
This met polite and general laughter in which the Speaker joined.
"Perhaps," he said, "you would care to communicate direct with the
Senators who were in charge of your system during the
developmental stages. Will the Senators please come forward for
contact?"
Seven of the minds above the floor of the Senate drifted over to
touch peripherally against each other and against Pat and Fred.
"When we first undertook that project," one or all of them said,
"your system was entirely unpopulated. On the third planet, we
found, however, roughly humanoid apes in isolated caves and by
selective breeding we succeeded in making that species into a
housing identical with those we use on this planet. Unfortunately,
only the less stable minds of the Galaxy were prepared to live quite
so far out and we eventually lost touch. Is the same housing still
used?"
"So much so," Pat told them, "that we cannot normally detach
ourselves."
"You mean you send bodies from place to place?"
"Yes. The radio signals you received were from a spaceship
containing men in their own bodies."
"Remarkable. Naturally, we accept your statement. But this implies
considerable technical skill—and a prodigious disregard for the
taxpayers' money. You mean there were actually men out there in
bodies sending energy transmissions, instead of visiting us in the
mind from Earth?"
"Yes."
"Remarkable. Very remarkable. Can you spare the time to tell us
more about this? We can accommodate you with a double housing
or separate housing, whichever you prefer."
"May I withdraw to consult with my colleague?" Pat asked.
"Of course. We will continue our debate."
The Senators returned to their forms and the Speaker, sinking back
into his body, recalled the assembly to their discussion of agricultural
problems.
Over the dome, Pat slipped inside Fred Williams' mind again. They
thought of the enormous space-ships developed over many centuries
and at uncounted cost to give men favorable odds in an unfavorable
environment. And of the hazardous shifting of power based on
bomb-satellites, and the fence upon fence of security precautions on
which Earth and the Solar System depended. Or rather, when they
considered it, on which their local population depended. It was not a
problem for two Divers but for a team of specialists.
They returned to the Speaker.
"We would like to consult with the original Earth Senators again and
perhaps borrow two—housings—for a a short while."
"With the greatest pleasure."
The Senators concerned quitted their housings and floated across
the assembly to join them. They all rose together to the outside of
the dome, where they would not disturb the debate below.
"One of the questions," Fred said, "is what happens if we died—by
accident, for example—while in a borrowed housing."
"You imply a question as to what happens to any of your people,
since they have lost the power to detach themselves, or do not
make use of it."
"Yes."
"Unfortunately," one or all of the Senators replied, "we do not know.
It is said there is a continual production of new minds in the
universe, which appear here and there, wherever there are suitable
housings. Others disagree but have no real answer. If we lend you
housing—a panther-style body for personal racing on the grass
steppes, say, or a vast whale-style body for enjoying some of our
oceans, and so on, there is some risk. Among certain cultures, we
find a return of the mind to a similar vacant housing. In other
places, we have found an obscuration of the mind. We think there
are parallel universes differing from this as mind-form differs from
substance. And we believe each mind continues in these further
dimensions. This would be practical if you were unable to leave a
dying housing. Our advice is not to get caught in any accidents.
"Should it be advantageous to you, we will keep housings ready for
you here. One male and one female, of course. Ah—on one question
which you did not ask—you will find our guest housings are a
uniform breed which became popular on your Planet among the
Greeks and Romans as ideal godlike forms, shortly before we
returned here.
"And as to the other question you have not asked—we never
interfere with local cultures, for the greater the variety of each, the
greater the enrichment of all. Your system is entirely safe; we
propose to observe it more closely from now on. It is our impression,
however, that you would be wise not to mention the galactic system
we represent, when you return to your Earth. It would be too
upsetting to the established pattern. We are all human beings, but
we have solved the same problems in very different ways."
"We have not solved ours," Fred said.
"Oh, neither have we. But at least the few of us here, including
yourselves, at any time as our guests, have achieved what you
would probably call immortality."
"We are free to accept your invitation at any time?"
"Certainly."
"Then we will report that no other envoy is needed," Pat said clearly.
"That would be beneficial indeed."
"And may we send you a very limited number of friends?"
"Your guests shall be our guests. Again, we suggest you limit
knowledge of us so far as possible."
"We are called Divers because we can leave our bodies. Only Divers
could visit you in this way, and we will not send any others."
"Thank you. It is largely our fault. We have come across traces here
and there of other colonies which we assumed were the successful
result of past experiments. It occurs to us now that several of these
may be in fact body-bound expeditions from your solar system. We
will investigate and correct our catalogues."
"We can be of assistance there," Pat answered.
"Excellent. We wish you Godspeed and a pleasant return."

The nine minds released contact and moved apart. Fred felt Pat's
mind slip into his. They rose off the dome and increased speed,
soaring into the sky and out, above the ring of planets.
"Why didn't we borrow a couple of bodies?" Fred asked.
He could picture himself strutting elegantly in the body of a Greek
god, with Pat to match beside him.
"Please stop that—we're zigzagging about. You're new, Fred. Every
Diver goes through the same routine—a pep-talk from the President,
Doctor Sprinnell's little tricks, your first Dive all over the universe,
and then routine patrols. What you don't know is that whenever we
Divers come into contact with another race or another form of life,
we are invariably offered gifts of some sort. Primitives sense the
presence of a Diver and put on a show, lay out food and their
treasures. The more advanced, using trained telepaths, try to bribe
us. And so on, without exception."
"Okay, so I'm new, Pat. So I don't know the pattern. A few days ago
I was a slob in an automation-parts supply house and now I'm here
with you at the back end of the Milky Way, or the center, whichever
way you look at it. But Doc Spinner made some pretty odd cracks to
me about security and I don't like the idea of being spied on all the
time back on Earth."
"No Diver does. The Defense Council put us in business, but now
they are afraid of us, in a way. We can go anywhere and see
anything. We might have a look at their secret installations or their
private files. Then we would be in trouble."
"Well, I didn't ask to come into this. But now that I'm in and a Diver,
just one fancy move by Security and I'm off to get another body.
That sounds odd, doesn't it? But I mean it."
"I'm glad."
"Eh?"
"I'm very glad, Fred. I wanted to see how you'd take it. I feel the
same way. It's true we're always offered presents, but immortality is
something larger than a present. And to get out from under the
thumb of the Psis and their spying is something all of us have been
longing for."
"And I'll tell you something else, Pat. From now on, if the other
Divers agree, we'll do what we want. Oh, the Solar System can have
its patrolling. I'll have to learn how that's done from you. We'll tell
them what they want to know. But one sign of interference and
we're off, and they can keep the bodies. We won't tell them they are
a backward colony that has forgotten how to Dive. But we know it.
We won't tell them the rest of the Galaxy is run from the center back
in Sagittarius by humans who can Dive. But we know that too. If I
thought at all about it, I thought we were freaks, useful nuisances.
And I didn't mind being ordered about. But we're not freaks, Pat.
We're the normal human beings that the Senate back there meant to
create. It's the Solar System that is lop-sided, not us."
"I'm not—overinfluencing you, Fred?"
"Hell, of course you are. I can hardly think of you without looping
around a star. But the facts are the same. And from today, we're not
Divers. We're the Free Divers, housing where we wish to, seeing
what we want...."
"And protecting the Solar System, Fred."
"Well—they're entitled to that. And we'll keep to their security
regulations for our bodies on Earth, if it makes them happy. We can
afford to give a little here and there."
They shot together through the nearest T-Tauri variable arch and
zoomed happily. After a while, they returned to the rendezvous off
the American coast on Earth. The other Divers were waiting for
them.
"It's a custom," Pat told him as they approached the nine Divers,
hovering in space, "to greet you as a new Diver."
They closed together as they met, within Fred's larger shell. He told
them. There were no doubts among their minds.
"Sooner or later," Fred finished, "one of us was bound to meet the
true Galactics we've just met. It happened to be Pat and myself. I'm
new and don't know much about Diving, but I've seen enough to
know that from now on I'm a Free Diver."
"So are we all," they answered.

Returning across America in the one shell, they scattered confusion

and headache throughout the psi-watching stations in their path by
the scramble of eleven sets of thoughts. Then they separated and
left Fred to go down to his body while they returned to theirs in the
different places Security had put them. Pat followed him down as a
precaution.
This time, Fred Williams' body fitted his mind with a greater feeling
of strangeness but less muddling. The smaller consciousnesses of his
body did not obscure his perceptions; he was aware of it as a
housing for his mind.
He looked at Dr. Howard Sprinnell, who had listened to him so far in
silence, uncommenting and unmoved, a mild, friendly face in the
small medical room.
"So, Fred. I warned you, Pat warned you. You go out on two Dives,
a few days after discovering that such things exist, and you come
back to give me an ultimatum for the Solar Government. A lifetime
here in the drabbest, almost medieval surroundings of the city and,
after a few days, you come back announcing you're a Free Diver,
owing nothing to anyone. Is that right? Do you still stick to that?"
Fred nodded.
"You realize what we can do to you, Fred? Dammit, on your first
Dive you almost went out of space-time altogether, only you didn't
know what you were doing. Do you know what you're doing now?
Do you think I've spent twenty years searching for negative Psis for
government service so that you can turn them against the Solar
System?"
"Hold on, Doc. No one said anything about being against the Solar
System. If there's work to be done, we'll do it. But in our own way
and without being spied on."
"Just give me one reason why the government should trust you, with
the entire Security system."
"Because," Fred said carefully, "you may have my body, but in my
mind I am a Free Diver."
"And nothing anyone can say will change that, eh?"
"No."
"You know," Dr. Howard Sprinnell said reflectively, "you're talking as
if you had another body cached away somewhere."
"Whoever heard of that?"
"Lots of people, Fred. Voodoo zombies, certain Mahayana religious
leaders, prehistoric Egyptians—there's quite a well documented
tradition. But the great problem has always been to find a leader
with the courage to do it scientifically and in the interests of all the
people, not just the members of some sect. Give a man the universe
to play in and he doesn't mind a few rules as long as he's allowed to
play. Finding negative Psis and creating the Divers as an organized
official body was easy compared with the task of completing the
experiment—by making one of them revolt! Nine of the ten before
you were too easily satisfied. Diving according to the rules and
regulations was enough for them."
"Who was the tenth?"
"Pat. She was the prettiest and most discontented. I thought I could
stir up some fire."
"You did."
"Ah, good. I am high-Psi, by the way. I seem to feel she's
somewhere around here. However ... I can never be a Diver myself,
but years ago I formed the theory that a lot of phenomena could be
explained by minds reaching out beyond their bodies. Now be
careful, Fred. I don't want to know. The Security Psis are very real
and there are a lot of things I cannot afford to know. I'm a Solar
Government servant, remember. But it seemed to me there might
conceivably be a life-form somewhere in the universe which used the
body as a vehicle for its convenience. I hoped one day the Divers
would find such a life-form, and if I made the regulations stiff
enough and supplied one or two other irritations, one Diver might
decide to make the jump, to revolt and stand on his own feet. Free
Divers, you called yourselves, eh? A good name. I don't want to
know where your base—your other base—is, Fred. I only want to
know there is a group of people willing to serve the Solar
Government regardless of time, theoretically for eternity—that's
what it amounts to when you work it out. As I say, I'm just a
government servant. And thanks, Free Diver."
He held out his hand and shook Fred's. "From now on, Fred, you can
all come and go as you wish. If you feel like keeping to the security
regulations, fine. But I'll make it clear to the Defense Council that
there's nothing they can do about it if you don't. Men who don't
mind losing their bodies have always been somewhat beyond the
power of a government."
"On that basis, Doc, I don't mind continuing the way you planned."
"Laryngeal transmitter, continue your cover-job and the rest?"
"Don't see why not."
"Come along then. You're due to be released from jail."
Fred followed the doctor into the operating room.

He remembered the beer this time. Elsie lay back on her bed,
drinking from the can, one of her scuffs dangling from a bare toe.
"The trouble with you, Fred, is you can't even rob an office."
"I didn't."
"That's what I mean. See? You just can't do anything."
He lay back on his own bed and looked at her. There were a lot of
things you didn't mind putting up with, voluntarily. You married her,
so you'd look after her, trudge to the shipping room to work and
trudge back. The tireder you got, the better.
For evening came every day, and with the evening came sleep for
his housing and eight hours for patrolling the Galaxy. And beyond
the system, out beyond the dark lanes, there were endless forms of
life ... and the two great developments of men, one stemming from
the other in different ways, but each expanding, colonizing, growing
... all with problems for the Free Divers he led.
"Wouldja get me another beer, Fred?"
"Sure."
He remembered to slouch into the kitchen, as if he did not care. And
when you considered it, he didn't care at all. This was one path of
human developments the Senators never thought of.
"Trouble with you, Fred, is you're just a negative character. You
weren't when I married you, but you are now."
Well, she was certainly entitled to a beer for that.
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