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A minute later someone was calling them. They turned from the balustrade and saw Geryn's white head poking from the trap door. 'Come down,' he demanded. 'I've been looking all over for you. ' They followed him back to the first floor. Tel saw that the scarfed giant was still sitting at the table, his hands knotted into quiet hammers on the boards. 'Now, everyone,' Geryn called as he sat down at the table. Somewhat reluctantly people left the bar. Geryn dropped a sheaf of papers on the table. ' The top sheet was covered with fine writing and careful architectural drawing.

I'm all right. I think. ' He looked up at the roof again, two stories above. 'Your turn, Your Highness,' Alter called up. 'It's high,' came a childish voice from the roof. 'Hurry up,' said Alter, her voice becoming authoritative. 'When I count three. And remember, knees up, chin down, and roll quick. ' There was the space of a breath, and then it fell, rolled, bounced unsteadily to its feet, and resolved into another boy, this one blond, and slighter than the first. 'Hey, you kids,' Jon said. They turned.

We can traverse the distances between stars or galaxies, ignoring temporal consideration. We do not usually bother with any living species, except to observe. But recently—recently by our standards though the actual time is longer than your world is old—another living force has come into this segment of the continuum, it has evolved similarly to us. We can both touch the perceptions of life forms on various worlds; this involves a good deal more work and energy than travelling from one side of the universe to the other, for we must convert our own vision in which neither time nor space are of much importance down to the miniature scope of life forms that exist often for less than a century, where an object behind a wall is an unseen one, where the experiences of one individual can create emotions and ideas unknown to the mind and heart of another.