<div>Roy C. Lackey wrote: <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>If real-time phone service between planets light-years apart were even<br>
possible, the government would know and use it. Clearly it is not.</pre></blockquote><div><br>The government doesn't know everything. I quote: <br> At last John said, "There are only two ways to communicate with Woldercan." The president muttered, "That we know of."<br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>Besides,what could either Reis or Chase have been doing on Woldercan during the week<br>
or so that Cassie was left to cool her heels in the islands that would have<br>benefited either man's immediate agenda?<br></pre></blockquote><br>I can imagine several possibilites:<br>1) Reis - Consult with the beings who taught him how to walk unseen and to make gold. What else could they teach him? Love potions, maybe? Cassie become much more loving after smelling that mysterious spicy cologne.<br>
2) Chase - Find his natural father. Pick up some of the magical skills Reis has learned. Get dirt on the existing ambassador so he can be replaced.<br>3) Either - use the time-shifting nature of trips to Woldercan to go backward or forward in time.<br>
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