He looked up and felt it high above him. �He couldn�t see it, but he knew it was there. It was always there, searching. �He knew when it found him there would be hell to pay......literally. �Well, what did you expect? �You don�t get as far as I am in this life without stepping on a few toes.� ��Although I do suppose I could have been a little more selective.� �He always seemed to be talking to himself. �Most people who had chanced to meet him thought it was a peculiar trait but harmless. �The truth of the matter was, he wasn�t talking to himself, He indeed had company wherever he went. �It�s just the other...well...uh.....well, this writer has yet to think of the words to describe �what� the other was so I guess you�ll have to wait. �Anyway, he wasn�t alone and you�ll just have to take my word for it, and that�s that. �Back to what I was saying. �He did have company, it�s just that the normal everyday humdrum person couldn�t see it. �And if the normal everyday humdrum person couldn�t see it, you don�t think they would be able to hear it do you? Not to say �it� ever said anything you understand, although it may have. �You see �it�s� a complicated thing and I just don�t think your ready yet.

�Well, let�s see what we have here!� �He had been walking for days now in the midst of the Great Wood. �He thought he had a few more days to go before he would get to a break in the canopy above him, but he seemed at be at the end of the Great Wood.