them through time. This was kept from the public, and was forcefully
forgotten by those who knew, their reason being that Temis would guide
your travel better than the others who were not called as his servants.
If it were anyone but you, Jehu, I would probably have deceived myself
in the same way, but I cannot let you be destroyed like this. You must
escape and not let them throw away our only chance of salvation in such
a way. I only wish that I had known sooner, I only wish that there was a
chance that you could escape,

"Your Devoted Friend,
"Bernibus"


For a moment I could do nothing except sit in silence and ponder over
this new revelation. After I had reread the letter twice, so as to be
thoroughly familiar with its contents, I ate it, so that if I did
escape, or was apprehended doing so, Bernibus would not be found out and
suffer because of it, though I doubt not that he would have gladly done
so. When I had done that, I ran down to the door and attempted to force
it open, but to no avail. Neither could it be picked. And even if it
had, it would have done me no good, for there were at least two guards
always stationed at the foot of the stairs, and many more between them
and the temple entrance, and even if, by some miraculous intervention, I
made it that far, that left me stranded conspicuously in the center of
Nunami. My only hope was to escape from the island completely, for I
would be found soon enough by the cooperating inhabitants if I remained
upon their own lands.

The land across the sea then entered my mind, and its degenerate
inhabitants, but that was across a wide channel that would be hard to