They reached the east gate of the compound early in the morning. As promised, an IF security detail was there waiting for them, including a full hazard squad - of which only one would join them. Bean seemed largely unflapped by the entire ordeal, and Peter followed suit in pretending ( Read more... )

( Is this Bean or Petra? Or both? )

PETER'S INBOX:

To: Locke%erasmus@potnet.gov
From: Sand%Water@ArabNet.net
Re: Invitation to a party

You don’t want to miss this one. Kemal upstairs thinks he’s the whole show, but when Show and Pock get started in the basement, that’s when the fireworks stop say wait for the downstairs party before you pop any corks.
Elsewhere in the ( Read more... )

Graff had stopped in for a brief visit on their first morning there, but then was off again - returned to Earth, in fact, on the shuttle that had brought them. He did not return for several weeks, by which time Peter had written nearly forty essays, all of which had been published in various places. Most of them were Locke’s essays. And, as usual, ( Read more... )

From: Graff%pilgrimage@colmin.gov
To: Locke%erasmus@polnet.gov
Re: The better part of valor ( Read more... )

From: Chamrajnagar%sacredriver@ifcom.gov ( Read more... )

From: unready%cincinnotus@anon.set
To: Demosthenes%Tecumseh@freeamerica org

Re: Ill help you

So, Mr. Wonderboy Hegemon, now that you're no longer Demosthenes of "freeamerica.org", is there any good reason why my telling you what I see from the sky wouldn't be treason?

From: Demosthenes%Tecumseh@freeamerica.org ( Read more... )

Natalie was back to her old self, for which Peter was grateful; unfortunately, part of the reason why he was grateful for it was that with Achilles around, and the world hurtling quietly towards calamity as it had for the past few years, he didn't exactly have the time to do anything but work. Having Natalie back up to snuff meant he could delegate ( Read more... )

From: PW
To: TW
Re: What are you doing ( Read more... )

( Wiggin: Subj not to be killed. )