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19 June Beside a land, Realm beyond the Sixth Circle

To care to follow the contours of the land He was a big ht well A slilanced anxiously towards the road

'There are people up by the gate'

'Relax, Colin' To It's the price you pay for being on TV Stop worrying They don't knoe're doing'

Colin fidgeted aardly

'You knohat I think about this whole operation It's totally illegal There are strict protocols on experiuidelines that Brussels puts out'

'Stop worrying' Tom stood up 'They're just a bunch of bureaucrats'

He went to a van and returned with a wicker basket, which he set down on the grass beside a computer A cat peered out The animal's head was shaven and electrical wires protruded from a plate attached to its skull He connected one end of the cable to the cat and the other to the cohts flashed and the animal purred

He turned to Colin

'Our little friend see it'

'That's not the point The law doesn't care what the cat thinks'

Tom stroked the cat 'If Galileo had worried about the law, he'd have been too scared to observe the moons of Jupiter and we'd still think the sun moved around the earth'

'It's more complex than that,' Colin continued to fret 'We could be accused of black ic Think what that would do to our reputations'

'I wasn't accused of blackrods'

'No You were labelled a crank'

'Absolutely' Toneto rods, I' out of it Well, they've got it now Pussy's wired up and no one's going to accuse hi the results'

He held the basket to his chest and strode down the slope to the pond, dragging the cable behind hi unease His friend had ist People flocked to his excavations and there were solanced at them then returned his attention to Tom and the cat The aninals down the cable to the coht appeared on the screen