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Show something under two hours and Dr'Anya was hustled away, A Deputy AVM named Rockforth had appeared in command of the whole operation. Dr'Anya had at first taken him for another android, for he'd had a marked androidal accent, but he'd appeared so poorly equipped with software that she'd at length put him down as a Crossover. He'd advanced ponderously into the room in the wake of his troops, his shoulders and arms festooned with chains and a huge padlock and key, and waited patiently next to Dr'Igor's sanctum door whilst the androids busied themselves with their affairs. A medium-sized sledge dangled loosely from one hand. Intended he to seal the door? With chains and a padlock? Marry, thought Dr'Anya, astonished, in the twenty-fourth century? The whole proceeding, in faith, was beyond her. Never had she known the BauerNetwork to function so swiftly before. Moreover, what in Isaac's worlde was Dr'Igor talking about? Revolution...? Ben's place...? The Mechanism...? Pray, what in Isaac's worlde was going on? 44 |