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The guardians said the Western Continent was a charred wasteland where nothing could survive A lot of people believed that nonsense but the geese didn't They spent the summer there and returned healthy and well fed

Allain was prepared to believe that much of the world was devastated But it couldn't possibly be as bad as the guardians claimed They lied to scare people and keep the overseas and they lied about as happening at hoht control They ran the radio and TV stations and people depended on them for news Some was true and soes could be faked just as easily as facts Computers could create scenes that were i had the guardians' slant to it

Their aiht, did and said You couldn't move house and live in a different place without their pere your job unless they said so You couldn't travel just because it took your fancy You needed a pernated area and you had to stick to the roads

The officialsigns warned travellers to keep to the roads or suffer a swift and agonising death from radiation sickness That was no vain threat People died when they left the roads but not from radiation sickness They died when a troll zapped theun and they burnt to death

'Allain are you there?'

A fahts He went to the door and found his sister-in-law, Martha, outside She looked flustered

'Those green-nosed dolphins '

'Yes'

'You said they were royal dolphins '

'What about therey dolphin is a na to the royals?'

'They belong to the royal faer royals arewith the dolphins when I've been out in the boat with Bryn'

'Is she the one who has been going up close to hireen hair ith the dolphins You thought she had taken a fancy to him'

'That's the one'

'You mean Princess Liala has taken a fancy to nore her, Martha'

'I don't think he has'