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Proceeding from "Honorable Enemies" to "A Message in Secret," we find that this second story begins as Flandry approaches Altai in an Alfzarian/Betelgeusean spaceship. Flandry was on Alfzar in the Betelgeusean System in "Honorable Enemies." Emil Dalmady, who confronted Nicholas van Rijn in "Esau," was from Altai. This reminds us that children of Dalmady accompanied David Falkayn to Avalon, that one of them, Judith Dalmady/Lundgren, wrote short stories that were published in the magazine, Morgana, named after the Avalonian moon, that Hloch of Stormgate Choth collected three of these stories in The Earth Book of Stormgate and that the first of these stories was "Esau," about Judith's father! In her old age, Judith wrote "Wingless" about David Falkayn's grandson in his youth. Emil Dalmady is a young man when he confronts van Rijn but his daughter is an old woman when she writes about Falkayn's young grandson who is also van Rijn's great-great-grandson. Thus, the Technic History shows us not only centuries of history but also generations of families.