When Wanda Tamberly on her timecycle hovers above the garden of Versailles, she sees that some of the flowerbeds have been arranged in the shape of the Time Patrol symbol, an hourglass on a shield, but enclosed in a circle and crossed with a red line and also that this arrangement is guarded by concealed but armed soldiers. A trap.
As soon as Wanda realizes the implications:
"Shadow flowed across the world." (p. 354)
Sure. That shadow flowing then exactly corresponds to Wanda's sudden apprehension. Other natural phenomena concur:
a weather vane flashes once but then darkens;
the sun sets;
dusk follows;
stars tremble;
cold deepens;
wind dies;
silence enters.
Everything sets the scene. Then the Andersonian heroine acts instead of fleeing.
I have returned from my sag aloo and the sun has set here. Tomorrow will be a normal Saturday in Lancaster.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The archcardinal should have been suspicious of the design Keith Denison proposed, and wondered if it had different meanings from whatever he was told.
Ad astra! Sean
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