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… So Cabilo had her capturing a base well armed with missiles,
And then orchestrating on-the-spot Peruvian dismissals
Of the highest leaders of the land, with no sign of dismay,
As her master-of-the-mind Cabilo came to have his way.

Since Cabilo’s lens had also got to Jenyfer’s possession
Of her faculties, her mind had made an uncontrolled regression,
To her childhood dreams of playing dolls with someone she had learned
(So much later) was more suitable than someone she then spurned.

Yet, instead of meeting him at Ambloome’s party (per the telling
In eleventh of these stories), she now found her mind was swelling
With another version, where they met as children. So Braisyde
Never had the chance to be the man she’d looked for far and wide.

He was instantly available in her mind’s alteration,
Less appreciated, since she’d built a faster expectation,
Seen it gratified in childhood, with Cabilo’s mind control,
While her body stopped some tanks, before their treads could start to roll.

She would grab each tank and turn it gently topsy-turvy.
In Lee-John’s mind he had saved Ambloome from several of the scurvy
Thieving pirates, and she thanked him for the rescue of her raft.
He dispatched them all, received her love and thanks, and then went aft.

Nonvor still thought she was winning, as she shot a hydro pellet
(In her mind against the Fire Fairy), still forgetting Zellit
(Her new partner) and the fact that Lester came to use his gun,
(His toy water rifle), dousing Fairies’ flame in Ambloome I.

In the mean time, Viking Two (Braisyde) had also been subjected
To Cabilo’s mental misconstructions. He had once expected,
As a teenager, that he would find some sweetness back at school,
When in fact results of courtship ventures always turned out cruel.

In the daydreams, which Cabilo’s lens induced, he had the normal
Opportunity to take a pretty girl to high school formal,
Go for picnics, kiss in privacy, and feel that every date
Came with freely given feelings he could just reciprocate.

With an absence of the loneliness, the sneering and the teasing
Which had really happened, Braisyde found his altered teens quite pleasing.
With his mind believing all of this, it really wasn’t hard
For Cabilo to make use of him as nearby bodyguard.

Yet one detail had been overlooked, or else miscalculated.
Though Cabilo’s lens took memories from their minds and recreated
Them with differences, which mesmerized his targets; he could not
Know the true extent of Braisyde’s pain, which had become his lot.

He’d struck adolescence at thirteen, and watched the girls he’d honour
(With his dreams) all pairing up with bullies (who’d made him a goner
In the playground in his first two years of school). The grief remained
In his mind, as it accumulated, all those years ingrained.

It could not just be rewritten, when Cabilo’s lens implanted
False accounts. Unlike the others, Braisyde’s mind had raved and ranted
Of the seven years of broken heart, restored in time to break
Once again. He’d often found it almost more than he could take.

So his brain broke through the Alpha-Mind-World thoughts, which did enable
Him to take Cabilo by surprise, and properly turn the table.
First he struck him with his sword, but only used the weighty flat,
So to knock him out. The soldiers left him tied up on the mat.

Then Braisyde released his friends from what Cabilo’s lens was doing.
When Peru learned what had happened, they saw nothing worth pursuing,
Since they’d also been apprised of how the Seven Sentinels
Of the Daylight came from Ambloome’s world to stop the Sun Cult’s cells.
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