Luis Castelar thinks of his stolen timecycle as "...his horse of the wind..." (p. 725) He flies above a city where Spanish soldiers march out to attack their besiegers. Some look up and see him. Later, visions are reported. As he crosses the city boundary, another vehicle with two riders appears beside him. It arrives with an already activated electromagnetic generator projecting a field that disables his timecycle and causes it to give him an electric shock. As he falls, the Patrolmen stun and catch him.
"Women and Horses and Power and War"
Two Exaltationists, Buleni and Draganizu, guarded by local soldiers, walk past the disguised Manse Everard. The medallion on a chain around Draganizu's neck is a stolen Patrol communicator. Everard kills Draganizu and disables Buleni. While the soldiers charge toward him, Everard transmits in Temporal:
"'Unattached Everard. Come immediately. Combat.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), PART TWO, 209 B. C., p. 113.
The soldiers and a bystander are stunned. Five timecycles have arrived bearing Patrol agents with energy projectors. The two Exaltationists still in the nearby city have set an alarm that will alert them to the arrival of timecycles within a wide radius. However, Everard leads an attack sixty seconds earlier, cutting them off from their timecycles. End of Exaltationists.
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