In 1827 B.C., Storm and Lockridge visit Avildaro, a fishing village on the Limjford which is open in this period. In an invariant timeline, a time traveler can know something, although not everything, about the immediate future:
because this station has not been considered important enough to scout intensively, Storm does not know what will happen in and around Avildaro this year;
however, reconnaissance has established that there is no large scale use of energy devices in this millennium, which means that her enemies, the Rangers, are not present;
a survey party from Ireland, where the time portals are a century out of phase from the ones in Denmark, has confirmed that Avildaro survives and is even more important a century hence;
therefore, Storm mistakenly feels safe in approaching Avildaro.
A single Ranger who has been tipped off that she is there will lead a local war band and capture her.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The moral of the story being, never underestimate your enemies! Storm should have taken the time to scout out Avildaro more carefully. Not that I like her, anyway!
Sean
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