262 DATE WITH THE GODS
Oh by the way, as of the 22nd of this month my
mission was accomplished. You are all that is holding me
in Peru. How long are you going to detain me?"
"How much time do you have?"
"I don't have to be in the United States until the middle
of October."
"I know, but you'd better leave before October 3rd,
because something is going to happen here in Peru. It
would be best for you to go. We won't be seeing one
another for a long time."
"If you say so. I'm going to miss these sessions with
you, because afterwards I always feel fulfilled. Maybe
tomorrow you and I could take a ride to Huancayo or
LaOroya. I need to call Lima to check my plane reserva
tions and things like that."
I reminded Rama that before my departure she still
owed me a session about the nation in this world and a
race of people. It was all we needed to complete our
original list.
We went into the water for about an hour, then had
lunch, finishing by mid-afternoon. We drove to some
nearby fields and made ourselves comfortable. As we
were talking and enjoying the scenic view from a grassy
hill, a group of men appeared, walking over the crest of
one of the hills. Rama said it was her space brothers and
went to meet them.
I could only see them at a distance, but I saw they had
no hair on their heads and that two of them were tall.
They were all dressed in the same type of robe Rama had
worn the day she'd stood on the rock, bathed in golden
light.
As I watched Rama talking to her friends, I became
very edgy. Even though I couldn't get a good look at
them from where I was sitting, I could see they more or
less resembled my previous ideas of what someone from
outer space might look like.
I never spoke to them, but I could hear them speak to