Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

America, it had failed ninety nine percent of its people over acentury before she was born.“I wish I had time to take you to the mainland where youcould see people in the same sapling hut with their goats andchickens right now. Instead I only have some time afterdinner to take you to a temple down the street for a lyre choirrecital.”“Won’t we be spotted there?”“That is a point, we are still wanted for running out onyour obligation in Knossos. This is a different temple andthose who agree to remain in the heaven of this era don’t havedata communications. A messenger was probably sent toAtlantis, but who knows what attention they paid. Knossosand Atlantis were like Washington and Wall Street during theAmerican collapse,” Yellelle told her. “There was a certaincompetition for influence between the sacred and theeconomic. Atlantis never swore fealty to the King of Knossosor the High Priestess of the Goddess in Knossos. The cynicalsay they bowed only to the power of gold, but in this day andage most of the people here believed the Goddess of naturewas real and many attended celebrations.”“I hear you with the ‘common belief system’ mantra,” Avasaid, “but I’ll take anything in Zhlindu, Dos or the Yakhanover your lyre choir at the temple down the street.”“Pppp,” Yellelle said, “wait til you get to the 2341 echo.”474