This is a catching up chapter. There are four characters. We have met:
all four earlier in this novel;
Komozino only in this novel;
Wanda Tamberly in the previous volume;
Keith Denison in a very early Patrol story;
Manse Everard in every previous instalment.
Everard and Tamberly meet and recount their experiences in the alpha timeline, then visit Denison who recounts his experiences in that timeline. Although he had been held prisoner for four years in the alpha timeline, Denison had not been able to deduce how it had diverged from the standard timeline so Everard tells him that before Denison relates the rest of the alpha history that Everard had not learned yet. Then Komozino arrives to inform them that the mission to restore the standard timeline has failed and that they must now cope with a beta timeline. The following chapter is headed 1989beta A. D.
"Delenda Est," with only a single divergent timeline easily deleted was like a rehearsal for the greater complexities of The Shield Of Time, PART SIX.
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