Making the Best, continued
Nov. 3rd, 2005 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerI'm through.
That was an awful lot of rubble. I had to carry it outside armful by armful. I pitched it into the sea, which must have startled the fish-beasties round that side. I can't tell you how I ache. But I did it. I got through. And yes, the tunnels do run all the way under the island.
I found the rest of that paper of Yeesha's. Mostly just crowing about having persuaded the D'ni survivors to give up the Art and all their technology and live simply. All very Thoreau, if that's the bloke I'm after. Well, good for her. Personally I think she's cuckoo, but that's just me. I can't see how it bears on the imager message, if indeed it does.
One of the tunnel branches ends up in a room that I think must be under the log cabin, and yes, the Channelwood book is there. Another curves round and comes out in a long room full of humped shapes in a row, with the glimmer of glass at the end. And another leads to a very nice if long-neglected set of living quarters, with steps up to the back of the bookcase in the Library. If the bookcase were folded down to access the passage to the tower, these steps would be completely inaccessible. No wonder the Stranger never saw any of this.
But it's the other tunnel that I'm interested in now. It terminates in a chamber right smack beneath the centre of the island. There's a machine there, with a dome, bolted securely over a hole in the ground. It's warm down there, very warm, and there's a tension. I think maybe I've been wrong. The geothermal energy isn't running out at all. It's been shut off. I just have to work out how to open it up again, preferably without blowing the island to kingdom come, and who knows what might happen.
Not tonight, though. I've been digging almost solidly for days, and my brain wouldn't strain cabbage right now. There's a control panel but I can't make sense of it. I'm going back to Stoneship and to bed while this still feels like progress. I think it is. I hope it is.
Oh, one other thing. Another piece of paper. Five odd-looking shapes, roughly shaded in different colours. No idea what that's for, but I'm hanging on to it. May come in handy, you never know.
That was an awful lot of rubble. I had to carry it outside armful by armful. I pitched it into the sea, which must have startled the fish-beasties round that side. I can't tell you how I ache. But I did it. I got through. And yes, the tunnels do run all the way under the island.
I found the rest of that paper of Yeesha's. Mostly just crowing about having persuaded the D'ni survivors to give up the Art and all their technology and live simply. All very Thoreau, if that's the bloke I'm after. Well, good for her. Personally I think she's cuckoo, but that's just me. I can't see how it bears on the imager message, if indeed it does.
One of the tunnel branches ends up in a room that I think must be under the log cabin, and yes, the Channelwood book is there. Another curves round and comes out in a long room full of humped shapes in a row, with the glimmer of glass at the end. And another leads to a very nice if long-neglected set of living quarters, with steps up to the back of the bookcase in the Library. If the bookcase were folded down to access the passage to the tower, these steps would be completely inaccessible. No wonder the Stranger never saw any of this.
But it's the other tunnel that I'm interested in now. It terminates in a chamber right smack beneath the centre of the island. There's a machine there, with a dome, bolted securely over a hole in the ground. It's warm down there, very warm, and there's a tension. I think maybe I've been wrong. The geothermal energy isn't running out at all. It's been shut off. I just have to work out how to open it up again, preferably without blowing the island to kingdom come, and who knows what might happen.
Not tonight, though. I've been digging almost solidly for days, and my brain wouldn't strain cabbage right now. There's a control panel but I can't make sense of it. I'm going back to Stoneship and to bed while this still feels like progress. I think it is. I hope it is.
Oh, one other thing. Another piece of paper. Five odd-looking shapes, roughly shaded in different colours. No idea what that's for, but I'm hanging on to it. May come in handy, you never know.