prepared to depart, each to our own occupations.

With that our council ended, and, in the company of Bernibus, I was sent
to another area of the fortress to be measured for an anti-electron
suit, in order to protect me from the effects of reverse revolution. We
didn't converse in the beginning of our walk, for my mind was too busy
subconsciously thinking over what Wagner had said to have any conscious
meditations.

We walked through the fortress towards the northern section, which held
the technological rooms, so as to get an anti-electron suit in the
making for myself. Realizing that the fortress has been little
described, I will do so now. It was broken into six different sub-
divisions, each branching from the only entrance, which was in the
center of them all, the different divisions connecting to it through
long, narrow defiles, or gorges, like the one at the entrance. This was
for security, each area being independently contained within the whole.
The six areas, or departments, as they were called, were as follows: the
Northern was the technological and industrial research and production
facilities; the Eastern was the residential department, containing also
the civil services, such as medical care and distribution centers; the
Southern was the agricultural and other food production areas, though
there was little besides agricultural, for the Canitaurs were strict
vegetarians; the Western was for mining minerals and other raw materials
to be used by the other departments. The other two departments were
below the others, being differentiated between by the names Left and
Right, the Left being the governmental offices, and the Right the
military headquarters, providing protections both civil and foreign
(this was, incidentally, the beginning of the expression of the terms
Left and Right to denote ideological preferences, but I digress).