Resonance

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  The next thing I remember was being really scared for a moment, because I was in the dark and paralyzed, unable to feel my body. Then three things happened almost at the same time: I remembered I didn't have a body, I hooked up with Shep, and Yancy snored, which I heard and felt. Then I was okay.

  Shep and I spent some time inventorying the bodies we were now in, as well as we could. We could only feel what our carrier, our host was feeling, which was the bed under us and our own breathing and so on. And Yarnall, whom I could feel through Shep, was dreaming, something confused and very fast-paced, lots of neon and screeching tires, like an action movie. Yancy was dreaming too, only it was about women.

  After a while Yancy woke up, got up, and managed to cool off enough to take a piss, and while he was doing that, Yarnall woke up and went to do the same. Separate bedrooms, separate bathrooms.