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'You do indeed come from a superior place,' the priest enthused 'What you have said has been a revelation to st us and its purpose was to bring the wisdom of the sixth realm to those who have not received the full revelation of the divine truth '

Aaroen droned on in a way To the conversation back on track

'Why do you want to know about eclipses?'

Aaroen handed him a sheet of parchment

'When ere at Karnak we used this to predict eclipses That ignorant man, Grimwald, does not understand that the blessed lines require modification before they can be employed in this more northerly land'

Tom exa held the view that soalithic ue computers He had seen learned papers that claimed the monuments mimicked the heavens and could be used to predict lunar eclipses and other celestial events

'Grimwald thinks that there will be an eclipse of the , that will bring great shareed

'Will you look at his prediction and see if it is correct?'

Tom leant forward

The parchment was covered in lines and circles It rerae was used to predict celestial events

The proble Tom looked up from his calculations The ashed wall of the stable was covered in equations and calculations but his endeavours were leading nowhere Without a calculator the task was beyond hionometric tables He'd lectured on them in his university courses He'd told his students how i Now, he realised just how true that was Without the tables, he wasn't capable of the si his time

The crowd of onlookers failed to notice the look of desperation on his face They were greatly irams and symbols he had drawn on the ith a stick of charcoal None doubted that his good spells were more than a match for the evil spells of the priests of the Duideth

Their idiotic chatter irritated him He needed so disturbed The queen had talked about a gully with shrines and statues It was a place of solitude and he resolved to go there He put down the charcoal, dis orders to be left alone