ET- Mind Radar

The space traveler gazed from his own little window, as Elliott crossed the slanted roof and then scampered down the stairs leading from it to the garden. In another moment he was out of sight.

  The old star-rover monitored the boy’s path telepathically: Elliott was climbing into the hills beyond the house. Did he go to get food for his friend in the closet?

  No, the boy was creeping onto the dread fire road, where all troubles begin.

  The extraterrestrial’s delicate mind-antennae twitched spasmodically, for across the night he could feel—the clicking of teeth on the ring of terrible trophy.

  Elliott was not alone on the fire road.

  Another was there, searching in the shadows. Searching for whom?

  Could there be any doubt?

  He felt the heavy footsteps, felt the cold, staring eyes of the Earthman, a gaze that pierced the night with its own telepathy.

  The aged space traveler switched off his mind-radar and huddled in the closet. They were after him, with their blinding lights. They were up there in the hills, covering every inch of it, their own mental radar telling them—the extraterrestrial is hereabouts, and we shall find him.

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 7