ET- Life Transfer

  E.T. raised his healing finger, in which many powers were contained. He must give something to Botanicus, whom he’d not seen in so long and to whom he owed so much. And though his teacher was far wiser than he, and counted all the treasures of botany as his own, there was one thing E.T. could give, the gift which an Adept can give to an Elder, even though the Elder knows much more than the Adept. Botanicus saw E.T.’s gesture beginning and shook his head. “Do not shorten your own cycle.”

  But the gift of the life-force was already leaping, from the core of E.T.’s being, from the store of his life-potential. He was giving a cycle of his own life, consisting of an entire century, to Botanicus. His healing finger glowed, and the light leapt into Botanicus, at the point called Energic Door, in the top of the skull.

  The gathered students drew their breath in awe, for they had never seen this gift before. And a moment later they saw its manifestation; an age ring had vanished from the dome of Botanicus’s head, where the cycles were counted as in the trunk of a tree. He had regained the form he’d held a hundred years ago, and a new vigor was in his gaze as he once more raised his head.

  “A fine gift, Doctor,” he said softly, and cast his eyes to E.T.’s own brow, where the vanished ring had formed, E.T. having gathered Botanicus’s weariness to himself. E.T. turned away then, as if nothing had passed, and gazed into the fields which he and Botanicus served. He felt the heaviness of a full cycle upon him but he would carry it for Botanicus; it was only right that he do so.

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 4