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Show program?" she asked him. "Aye." "Thou canst reprogram the Governor?" Phrapp hesitated. Did he want to reprogram the Governor? "Aye," he said. "Well," cried Dr'Igor peremptorily, "get ye to it!" Phrapp looked at him levelly. "After.-" he said, "there be a shared decision as to what goes in it, exact." "Ye will program what I tell ye to! " Dr'Igor said through his teeth. But Dr'Anya had already changed sides from Grant-Sheblem to Phrapp. "A shared decision," she said thoughtfully. "Indeed, that appears a very good way to go." "Does not the original BauerWorlde Constitution call for some kind of decision-making body?" asked Janni. "Aye," said Jothra, who had a good-sized library of laboriously handwritten books on BauerWorlde history and legends. "'Tis there indeed, and evolved, Saint Isaac bless us, into the Exalted Board of Managers. Then..." Dr'Igor grew exasperated. "Get ye up," he growled to Phrapp, "and put everything back into that blessed memory!" Phrapp's eyebrows shot up. "Worthy sir," said Janni, "use thy good sense-'tis a mission impossible thou art asking of him." "I will not be blocked..." began Dr'Igor, shaking a fist. "If thou pleasest," interrupted Belinda, nodding at Phrapp. "Our destiny is in this man's hands." She walked over to Phrapp, who looked 319 |