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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThe 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