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Allain Entwhistle turned the knobs on his long-wave radio A tantalising sound of oriental h the ether He kneas oriental because he had a collection of recordings that he had excavated frouardians didn't care about the past and let you dig anywhere so long as you kept out of forbidden areas

Allain had books that he had excavated It was surprising hoell they had survived the nuclear war and other calareat care to preserve them They had been stored in sealed containers by people anted to leave so to posterity as their world collapsed around the with people Huge cities once covered the globe Allain glanced at the uardians, and showed the planet as it was now All households were required to display it in their living room

If the map was to be believed, all of Planet Earth had been reduced to a cinder except their island They had escaped annihilation and were hanging on against the odds Much of their country was barren wasteland and the rest would soon folloithout continual care and vigilance

Allain's blood boiled whenever he saw the map It was part of the web of lies and deceit put out by the guardians They wanted people to believe they were the only humans left alive That was nonsense and they knew it The sound offrom the other side of the world The radio waves had bounced around the upper-at-wave transmissions could do that The radios people were allowed to have in their houses were short-wave They relied on dishes and were easy to control Short waves couldn't escape into the ether like long waves The long-wave radio, that he had built, used a length of wire as an antenna It ran along the top of his fence and was disguised to look like part of the fence

Allain was the technical expert of Plaid Koerno, the resistance ather infor elsewhere in the world Long-wave radio was one way and birds were another

The geese, that spent the winter on the local ponds, flew out over the western ocean in spring and returned in autueese as those illustrated in the old books and it was reasonable to assume that they went to the Great Western Continent just as their ancestors had done before The Fall