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best available on short notice."

"It was a wise choice," the Lady Ynvalda assured her. "You are strong,
Young Sister." She hesitated. "You only mention reading of the Foanna.
Are we…"

The Time Agent shook her head. "No, Great One, unfortunately not,
though your memory is highly honored. There is a fierce long age between
this time and that future."

"Can you tell us when? Or how?"

The human nodded. "If you really want to know, Lady," she replied
reluctantly.

The Foanna said nothing for a moment. "No. You are right, Young
Sister. It is best that those who are set upon life's journey do not know the
hour or manner of its culmination."

Eveleen turned her attention once more to Ashe. "You'll have to
produce Karara, Doctor. There can't be any thought of our taking her
back—it's four Foanna, not three, that Hawaika honors—but I must speak
with her. She has to know precisely what she must record for us and for
her adopted people."

"She won't be staying alone," Murdock informed her.

"Hardly. Hawaika's oceans of the future are filled with highly intelligent
dolphins who communicate both orally and mentally with their
land-dwelling placesharers. To take Tinorau and Taua would be to doom
that sentient race to nonexistence."

Ynvalda nodded. "It shall be as you will. Our sister will not gainsay you
in this."

The Foanna turned to the two men. "Would you like to speak with your
Young Sister alone?" she asked them.
 "If you please, Lady," Ross answered before Ashe could reply. "Miss
Riordan probably has news of our own people which we are eager to hear
and maybe a new assignment for us as well."

"That is so, Great One," Eevleen confirmed. "There's nothing we need to
conceal from you, and I'm at complete liberty to speak before you if you so
wish, but little of what I have to say concerns Hawaika, past or future. You
may enter my mind to determine if I'm talking the truth. I think I can
lower my shields for you if I'm willing."

"No need, Eevleen," she replied, her accent making a song of the name.
"You radiate truth. Neither we nor ours will suffer for our leaving ye at
this time. —When ye are done here, we shall bring Karara to you. Until