You type on your computer, attempting to run a game program.  As you type, your
vision doubles and then clears. You suppose that you have been working too hard
recently, and you rub your eyes with your palms.  When you look at the computer
screen again, scintillating dark blotches cloud and blur the edges of your     
vision. Maybe it wasn't a problem with your vision; most likely it was a power 
surge of some sort. The room does seem to be getting dimmer, almost            
imperceptibly so. As you attempt to scan your disappearing surroundings, the   
cool edge of sparkling blackness folds around your field of vision, like the   
hand of a lover, encompassing you insistently. The edge of your sight is       
bending and curling in upon itself. As your ability to see diminishes, you feel
panic approaching. The claustrophobic but familiar darkness overtakes you and  
adrenaline shoots through your uncomprehending skull, and you realize that you 
are shaking, wobbling unsteadily as your ability to see the world rapidly fades
from you.  What light now remains condenses and clarifies upward into a perfect
radiant circle, and you arch your neck to try to interpret and maintain it.    
Directly beneath this last, inscrutable white light, simple shapes gleam at    
your feet.                                                                     
                                                                               
IN THE SPOTLIGHT                                                               
An Unexpected Intelligence Test                                                
Copyright (c) 1998 by John Byrd.  All rights reversed.                         
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