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. Then
below, in a place of safety, those in charge of the city's
defense could hear any
15. See "Gnome Chicken" recipe in LEAVES FROM THE INN OF THE
LAST HOME, P. 246.
16. For related discussion of the "speaking armor" issue, see
PHILOSOPHIKA GNOMIKON MMXVII (323 A.C.), pp. 675,328 -
682,465.
threatening movement by those who dwelt beneath the sun
and the moons, and could act accordingly, preventing
surprise and possible ambush.17
Excited by his developing project (which he lovingly
entitled "Star Wires"), Armavir decided to put his findings
to the test before submitting them to the Mechanical
Engineers Guild. Making his way to the upper world
bearing a helmet, 100 feet of wire, an augur, and a detailed
map of the undercity, he began by drilling into the earth
beneath several of the more prominent vallenwoods on the
slopes of the mountain - a task that, of course, took him
several years, especially since, as both poet and engineer,
his auguries occasionally misfired. But enough of the trial
and error: it is not the dark night of labor that we wish to
see in a work of genius, but the flawless and seamless fruit
(or stars) of that work.
And so, when the elaborate connection was made - the
first helmet safely in the upper branches of a large
vallenwood, the second at the ear of our hero in a secluded
library alcove (not the one mentioned before), the two
connected by a copper wire stretched almost to the point of
breaking - young Armavir knelt silently and listened to the
world outside
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