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Show XXVI "Appearances are ever deceiving." Ancient Earthski Adage Dr'Igor turned around at length, looked at the woman behind him, and then nodded. He was well satisfied with this woman, Belinda, who appeared-Isaac be priased!-to worship himself and believe unerringly in his cause. She was of inestimable help. There was nothing she couldn't do, nothing she wasn't delighted to learn about. He smiled at her warmly- "Aye, and so we begin at last, Belinda," he said, and got up, throwing his still smoldering cigar into the tray. "Let us to the main room," he said to Janni and Dr'Anya, "and ye shall see what we've been doing up here since FourthMonth." A short walk down the hall brought them to a blank stone wall which, upon being touched in a certain place by Dr'Igor, opened onto a large double door and into a cavernous room equipped with fully twenty-five terminals. Almost all the folk in the room were grouped around a large rectangular table illuminated by what looked to be some sort of document- the table itself appeared to be a huge visual. "What we have here," said Igor, drawing the two women over to the table, "is the result of our spy in the BauerNetwork, the Brown Mole, digging most assiduously into the serpentine mind of the Governor." Belinda took a place at the visual and smiled to herself. Then Dr'Igor frowned. "Said the Mole, however, that though he could dig this document 247 |
