Scanned by unknown. Proofed by unknown. Converted to HTML re-proofed amp re-formatted by nukie. Distant Friends and Others Timothy Zahn CONTENTS DISTANT FRIENDS Red Thoughts at Morning Dark Thoughts at Noon Black Thoughts at Midnight OTHER STORIES The Peaceful Man The Evidence of Things Not Seen Guardian Angel Expanded Charter Final Solution Pawns Gambit DISTANT FRIENDS RED THOUGHTS AT MORNING It had been one of those long frustrating days the kind that makes you feel like the dishrag at a greasy spoon and I wasnt in any shape for the headline that jumped out at me as Iopened my Des Moines Register that evening: TELEPATH KILLED IN HIJACKING. I stood there just inside my apartment door rainwater running off my coat onto the rugand read the first few paragraphs. Amos Potter of Eureka California had been on acommuter flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles when three men at the other end of theplane produced guns and a bomb and demanded to go to Cuba. The pilot had obedientlychanged course but had had to set down in Las Vegas for fuel. Police and FBI men hadstormed the plane killing all three hijackers and wounding four