Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

woomen from the silicon subusturateh.”“You’ve talked about me?” Ava asked him.“I set up a little meeting,” Butuani answered. “There aremany of the Learned who are interested in you and yourpeople. They are also the ones who will need to train you tobe receptive to acolyte Tometahin.”“How many are there?” she asked with some trepidation.“Am I expected to give some kind of presentation or am Igoing to be treated as an enemy agent?”“They don’t want a prepared statement, they want candidanswers to their questions.”Meanwhile the girl lead them into a wide hallway withphotomurals of country scenes on the walls. There were a fewothers passing in this hall, even one woman with an authenticMinoan costume. She had wondered if it was still allowed,this proved that it was.They were directed to a room with benches on both sidesand a huge bowl in the middle. One end of the room was awindow that looked out over the cliffs and the inner islands ofthe city. All the inner islands were thickets of skyscrapers inthis age, but most of them were less than twenty stories.Along the inner cliffs there were much taller buildings andthe track for a hanger that ran twenty floors above the harbor.Most of the shipyards were now on the outer shores of theinner ring islands, not on their inner shores like it was fourthousand years ago. There were mainline container ships now,not rowboats.487