You're not registered…” Not registered… a Query on your name… blocked even from the Duke's code… Kryn's words are clipped, and even without the underlying concern he can sense, Martin knows of her unrest from the shortened speech. Something is right about it, for the first time in a long while, and something is not, nagging feelings she cannot place. “Disheveled,” she observes, looking at her hair. Half shrugging, she catches sight of herself in one of the full. She walks through the wardrobe to the tiles and direct light of the bath. Somehow, the long row of garments hanging in the wardrobing room does not surprise her, although she has not remembered them. Perhaps… “Back into the fishbulb,” she says out loud, crossing the room that would have held five of the single sleeping room she had occupied at Lady Persis'. Perhaps time will remove the awkwardness of relearning her past. Perhaps her studies at the Institute will help. The well-thumbed holobook in her father's study shows images of her growing up, standing at her father's knee, holding his hand. Why should her memories be so cloudy? She can remember everything since she returned so clearly, but the people around her, the rooms, they all have a clarity that the past does not have. She frowns and leans forward, letting her long black hair flood over the shoulders of her pale blue travel suit. The Duchess was solicitous, and her father the Duke growled. She cannot remember much of what she knows she should know. “Everyone watches the Duke's daughter,” she says in a low voice. II The young woman sits on the edge of the ornate bed where she is being watched. Even if such a god existed and if he could build a planet from scratch, why would he be humanoid or interested in humanity? -Lectures on Pan-Humanoid Myths Prester Smythe Kinsel University of New Augusta 1211 A.O.E. And if they did, the star wouldn't last long enough to allow planetary development of a terrestrial environment. In fact, stars that hot, F0 or hotter, don't have planets. Part I The Planet of Eternal Light I In toward Galactic Center, the myth implies, there is a star so hot it is a mere dot in the sky of that planet where the God of Darkness and the Lady of Light live-Just as this sun has only one planet, so is there only one God, the God of Darkness.
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