The Line of Polity
“Cormac observed this process with a feeling of chill that he had brought up with him from the platform on which he had met Blegg. What he had seen down there ... what had he seen?"They were rather touchy, down there," said Mika, as she studied screens and, through the touch-consoles below, tapped in further instructions to the robots.Down there?After a moment he realized she was referring to Elysium and the difficulties the three Golem had experienced extracting her from that place. He smiled t...hen, remembering her inability to ask direct questions. "They thought they were about to suffer a Polity takeover.""An understandable reaction," Mika replied, as he turned. She made a pushing gesture with her hand, exposing the tattoo on her palm that signified her graduation from the Life-Coven on the planet Circe — a secretive place that produced some of the best analytical minds for biosciences in the entire sector. Cormac studied her. She had changed only a little since the last time he had seen her: her orange hair was now shoulder-length rather than the crop it had been, her eyes were still demonic red and her skin pale, but she had acquired some bulk on her diminutive frame that had not been there before."Have you had a chance to look at the artefacts?" he asked her."Briefly," she nodded to the nearby case in which they were contained, "but such items require deep and intensive study.""Then they are Jain?""Oh yes, but in all honesty this thing is much more interesting." She indicated the creature Shuriken had killed in the Separatist base on Callorum, as some of the forensic robots now burrowed inside it.MoreLess
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