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Show "Brighton? Is't not in the Provinces?" "Close enough for no comfort, hard by the Tartar foothills, but in all truth 'tis in Schroeder Commendium. Both Schroeder and Nijinsky Commendium fair soured on NewOxbridge, lost they so many of their Doctors to BESPA." She stopped talking abruptly. Expounding I am, and full heavily, she thought to herself. The woman banked and turned south, but the child went on with her questioning. "Schroeder and Nijinsky?" she asked, her jaws full busy with the leathery beef. "Kostya Nijinsky and Eli Schroeder. Paired they right after planeting on the FirstSleeper -she was the one with radar sickness-took Holds over here and produced a quantity of girls-nine in all-and well nigh every one of their descendents ended in the Cloisters for study- The Elders of the two Comendiums were fair outraged. No representation have they on the .Council. The oldest Doctor they have now is a ten-year-old girl child in Nijinsky Commendium." "But I thought," said Janni, "that the Skill did die out in their line." "So they said, indeed. But now methinks that the surviving children were taught fair well how to hide it." "But are the two Commendiums yet tied into the BauerNetwork?" "Aye, but full loose. And in Brighton the folk did sabotage cables and consoles and burned up the auxiliary memories. NewOxbridge at length erased them." "Ah," said Janni. "So Brighton folk will wot not that we be escaped 139 |