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read verse 19.”
“What is the
message of verse 19?”
“It says,
‘However, be encouraged; the gods will prevail and the threat will
be overcome’.”
“What can it
mean?” asked Elena. “Ziemia is populated by humanoids that are
still living in the Stone Age. They have little knowledge, and
possess no weapon that could be a threat to the Karavec.”
“What you say
is true,” said Barrow. “But the prophecy cannot be wrong. The
creatures that inhabit Ziemia will be a threat; and the murder of
the embryos and stealing of the blood has something to do with
this.”
“We must
depart at once for Ziemia,” said Forster.
“First, I must
consult with the Council,” said Barrow.
Chapter 7 – The
Council
“ The
Council are my servants, and I am their servant; indeed I am one of
them. Together, we serve all the Karavec people.”
The Book of
Karavec (36, 21)
Lolena hadn’t
been summoned to a meeting of the Council for over three hundred
years. During that time, she continued working as a lawyer in the
Hikon High Court, and no one knew her true identity. She had even
produced two genetic seeds that had been nurtured at the Regional
Embrycultural Centre on Hikon and grown into Karavec of high
standing in the community; but these offspring did not know their
origins, and they were like strangers to Lolena.
So that
morning, when she felt the call from Barrow requesting a meeting of
the secret group, she was taken by surprise. Barrow did not make
the call using a conventional means of communication, but he
conveyed the news to her through the channel of his gnaris to
hers.
Lolena
immediately cancelled all her appointments for the next week,
telling her assistant that she had urgent business to attend to in
another part of Hikon. Her assistant’s protests that she had a case
at the High Court that could not wait were met with a severe
reprimand. Such was the importance and urgency of her attendance at
the meeting of the Council.
From other
parts of Hikon, the three other members of the Council had also
received their calls.
The members of
the Council always left the day-to-day running of the Karavec
Empire to Barrow, and knew that he was more than capable of making
the right decisions and communicating with and serving the gods.
So, when he called a meeting, they knew that there must be
important matters to deal with, and decisions to be made. At the
behest of the gods, the Council members possessed the ultimate
power over the entire Karavec Empire. Barrow was one of them.
Barrow prepared to set
off for the meeting, but knew that he must depart from the palace
under the strictest secrecy. His guards, who remained constantly at
his side, or kept watch outside his room whenever he slept or knelt
alone in his chapel communicating with the gods, would be difficult
to deceive; so evading them would be a difficult task for him to
achieve. To give the guards the slip required some genius on the
part of the Great Savant. He dressed as a slave, and carried with
him a note signed by the Great Savant himself giving the slave
permission to leave the palace to visit the rich master who had
grown him in his own cradle, and who was now sick and ready to
die.
Barrow may have
deceived his guards, but he had not deceived Forster. Forster was
not only a detective, but also an expert in reading body language.
Over the few days since he had met the Great Savant, he had studied
his every body movement and every nuance of facial expression. He
had deduced that Barrow would need to discuss a matter of such
grave importance as the murders of the Karavec embryos with the
clandestine group, and also had the inkling that Barrow would make
his way to the meeting in disguise.
Forster and Elena
waited in the shadows outside the servants entrance to the palace
for Barrow to appear, knowing that he would be disguised and on his
way to the important meeting.
“There he is,” said
Forster,
“What is the
message of verse 19?”
“It says,
‘However, be encouraged; the gods will prevail and the threat will
be overcome’.”
“What can it
mean?” asked Elena. “Ziemia is populated by humanoids that are
still living in the Stone Age. They have little knowledge, and
possess no weapon that could be a threat to the Karavec.”
“What you say
is true,” said Barrow. “But the prophecy cannot be wrong. The
creatures that inhabit Ziemia will be a threat; and the murder of
the embryos and stealing of the blood has something to do with
this.”
“We must
depart at once for Ziemia,” said Forster.
“First, I must
consult with the Council,” said Barrow.
Chapter 7 – The
Council
“ The
Council are my servants, and I am their servant; indeed I am one of
them. Together, we serve all the Karavec people.”
The Book of
Karavec (36, 21)
Lolena hadn’t
been summoned to a meeting of the Council for over three hundred
years. During that time, she continued working as a lawyer in the
Hikon High Court, and no one knew her true identity. She had even
produced two genetic seeds that had been nurtured at the Regional
Embrycultural Centre on Hikon and grown into Karavec of high
standing in the community; but these offspring did not know their
origins, and they were like strangers to Lolena.
So that
morning, when she felt the call from Barrow requesting a meeting of
the secret group, she was taken by surprise. Barrow did not make
the call using a conventional means of communication, but he
conveyed the news to her through the channel of his gnaris to
hers.
Lolena
immediately cancelled all her appointments for the next week,
telling her assistant that she had urgent business to attend to in
another part of Hikon. Her assistant’s protests that she had a case
at the High Court that could not wait were met with a severe
reprimand. Such was the importance and urgency of her attendance at
the meeting of the Council.
From other
parts of Hikon, the three other members of the Council had also
received their calls.
The members of
the Council always left the day-to-day running of the Karavec
Empire to Barrow, and knew that he was more than capable of making
the right decisions and communicating with and serving the gods.
So, when he called a meeting, they knew that there must be
important matters to deal with, and decisions to be made. At the
behest of the gods, the Council members possessed the ultimate
power over the entire Karavec Empire. Barrow was one of them.
Barrow prepared to set
off for the meeting, but knew that he must depart from the palace
under the strictest secrecy. His guards, who remained constantly at
his side, or kept watch outside his room whenever he slept or knelt
alone in his chapel communicating with the gods, would be difficult
to deceive; so evading them would be a difficult task for him to
achieve. To give the guards the slip required some genius on the
part of the Great Savant. He dressed as a slave, and carried with
him a note signed by the Great Savant himself giving the slave
permission to leave the palace to visit the rich master who had
grown him in his own cradle, and who was now sick and ready to
die.
Barrow may have
deceived his guards, but he had not deceived Forster. Forster was
not only a detective, but also an expert in reading body language.
Over the few days since he had met the Great Savant, he had studied
his every body movement and every nuance of facial expression. He
had deduced that Barrow would need to discuss a matter of such
grave importance as the murders of the Karavec embryos with the
clandestine group, and also had the inkling that Barrow would make
his way to the meeting in disguise.
Forster and Elena
waited in the shadows outside the servants entrance to the palace
for Barrow to appear, knowing that he would be disguised and on his
way to the important meeting.
“There he is,” said
Forster,
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