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he had always had a difficult time feigning interest where he had none this man here to my right is the factory manager kan bitali he ensures that everything keeps moving and that the merchandise keeps rolling off the factory floor he has even managed to convince the workers to work longer hours and increased productivity by fifteen percent the short man smiled slightly and gave a subtle bow and here on my left we have vaski lejit the head of our development branch he has quite a few wild ideas but he has also come up with some of our best selling products he is quite the innovator you know and hre behind me we have the heads of our various departments production research advertisements shipping sales everyone was so eager to show you around our factory we had heard that the men of your order were less than amenable to mechanics and machinery and so we were rather surprised when temalta informed us that they would be sending an ambassador to kedon but we are very pleased and highly honored please if you will follow me we will step inside and begin our tour they walked into the nearest building and nekel clapped his hands voer his ears the noise was deafening the machines threw up an infernal clatter and the voices of the foreman could be heard amidst the din shouting instructions this building houses our cookware line shouted jedan gesturing to the factory floor huge machines rolled out metal pressed metal cut metal and workers sat in their stations performing the same actions again and again as nekel watched the routine was absolutely mesmerizing each piece was exactly the same and the routine never changed this is where it all starts jedan explain gesturing to a large machine which fed sheets of metal onto a conveyor belt the metal is delivered here in stacks and this machine feeds it out on to assembly line the automated valves here determine which belt it is delivered to there are five main routes each consisting of at least three separate lines of products let me show you the group moved to one of the long belts and watched the sheets of metal come off the feeder the little valves flicked open and closed and a sheet came down the line that they stood by a man slid the piece quickly into a large press and pulled a lever the top of the press slammed down and quickly opened again the metal had been cut into a precise shape the worker repeated the process five times until no more pieces could be cut from the sheet then tossed the scrap metal onto a belt that moved just above the floor as nekel watched the scraps were picked up by a abother worker on another adjoining line what is he doing nekel shouted in jedan s ear oh the owner replied he will be cutting smaller implements from the metal that s why each lines consists of at least three belts we want to make sure that we use as much of the metal as possible the pieces from the first press were making their way to the next worker in line and the small group moved in for a better look this worker a young woman pulled one of the pieces into alignment with her machine and pulled a lever the machine slammed down much as the first one had and lifted quickly the metal was now no longer flat and had a rather complex shape these are facades for our line of ovens the other belts on this line produce pots and metal cups we sell quite a few of those to the military every year they re one of our best products nekel s ears rang as he listened to jedan and he wished that they could move to someplace more quiet but it was nearly a half hour before the tour moved back outside the temaltan shook his head slightly trying to clear it of the noise but he could see that there were at least three other large buildings that must hold more production floors and groaned quietly is something wrong ambassador asked gelek quietly nekel massaged his temples with gloved fingertips and replied yes my head is killing me there must be a way to cut down on that noise i am prepared to endure discomfort for the sake of our mission but i see no benefit in going deaf in the process gelek nodded and hung back for a moment to speak to the factory manager are you enjoying the tour my dead ambassador asked jedan keli and nekel forced a smile and a nod yes indeed i have never seen anything like it before and neither has anyone else from my country i believe you see we believe that matter is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the soul consequently we have not devoted very much time to the pursuit of the physical sciences we still create by hand those few things that we need we are happy in our ways though we have few needs and know how to be content with little when death calls one of our number his soul floats away easily and it is not weighted down by earthly attachments that is very fine indeed but tell me do you and your countrymen never long for a little more ease in your life i know that the northern islands are vrery cold and it is difficult to grow food on the rocky soil even a few of our kedonese machines could triple your crops and feed your people better why do you not develop your own machines or buy some of ours surely it would be of benefit to you the temaltan monk smiled noncommittally would we like soft beds to sleep in and mechanical carriages to drive us everywhere perhaps it would certainly make our lives easier but if we were to accustom ourselves to such things we would lose our ability to sleep on rocks and walk twenty miles if need be our life is not pleasant as you would count such things but we are happy with our lot and we have no need of an easier life jedean keli nodded pensively thinking about the ambassador s words as they entered the next factory floor ah here we are i know that you say that your people have no need of thse things but even you cannot deny the gloriousness of this floor nekel once again winced at the deafening sound and looked around the factory floor at the beginning it looked similar to the other factory sheets of metal being cut pressed painted but at the assembly stage he realized what was being constructed at the far end of the floor gleaming new mechanical carriages rolled off the belt and were driven away impressive isn t it this factory is still the only one to make the carriages used by the cities of kedon of course any private citizen is free to purchase whatever type of carriage suits their needs but most of them chose to buy an amalgamated kedonti carriage we hope to have a new model available early next year but vaski is still working out the details eventually every man and woman in kedon will own a mechanical carriage and we intend to be the ones that make it affordable to everyone here jedan s face was crinkled in a wide smile a nd nekel could tell that he truly believed in the value of hbis product and you don t worry about making such machines so readily available to so many people you really want your country overrun with loud clattering machines nekel tried not to smile no matter how many machines jedan keli produced it would all come to a grinding halt within the year but of course he had no way of knowing such a thing and nekel was not about to let on that something might happen if that knowledge slipped out it could cause a significant change and he had no desire to end up split between two futures why should we worry about it jedan laughed right now it is easier than ever for people to travel families formerly separated by large distances are now aable to come together every week if they wish instead of once or twice a year goods from all over kedon are delivered fresh to the markets and public transportation is cheaper and faster than ever and there is noise to be sure but little more than the incessant braying of the deshas and our machines are getting quieter with every new model it is one of vaski s main concerns he thinks that the next model may cut down on the smoke as well after ascertaining that his guest had had enough of the noise of the production center jedan led the small group back outside the noise was sstill quite loud but not nearly as deafening as it had been inside the building your aide mister gelek has informed me that you are still recovering from the terrible accidne that occurred on your voyage so i will end the tour here and allow you to return to your house we have been greatly honored by your visit today and we hope that you enjoy your time here in our country if there is ever anything the amalgamated kedonti can do for you or your people please do not hesitate to let us know jedan keli bowed low and shook nekel s hand firmly as gelek closed the door of the carriage it pulled away from the curb bearing th two men back towards the ambassadorial residence thank you gelek i do not think that i could have endured another moment of that noise the clammer in the streets is bad enough as it is i shudder to think of what it will sound like with hundreds more of these carriages they make the very air itself stink posted by joi at 7 53 am no comments 45ish kedi and suka walked side by side their escorts walking sedately behind them the hallways were mostly empty since most of the passengers were still at lunch or up on the decks of the ship my mother is visiting this afternoon and will probably not return until after dinner kedi said unlocking the door to her quarters i would love it if you would like to stay with me for awhile we have not had much time together since we set out and i miss seeing you suka laughed yes of course i ll come she looked over her shoulder at the escort and informed him of her plans he bowed and headed back down the hall with kedi s escort the two girls entered the suite and made their way into the sitting room kedi can i see that book that you were telling mr luser about i don t think i ve ever seen any astaldi poetry before at least not a whole book of it that story you told sounded well almost familiar i m trying to figure out where i might have heard it before suka settled herself gracefully on the couch wishing she could loosen her corset kedi nodded going to a low bookshelf that sat in a corner i thought so too i keep trying to think of something that would give me a clue as to why it seems familiar but no luck so far once i get back home i m going to go through all of the storybooks that my nurse read to me it might be mentioned in there somewhere she pulled a thick blue volume from the shelf and handed it to suka here it is there s lots of things in there poetry stories even a book of religious writings the book itself is about a hundred years old i think it was published when the astaldi ended their isolation and let traders and explorers through again i think anything astaldi was selling then so they just shoved a random collection of literature in a book the young woman paged through the book the pages were brightly illustrated and the text was rather ornate no none of these sound familiar wait the life of the blessed sulan by mei nevrekti the book of sulan i can t think where i ve heard of them she flipped through the pages until she found the first entry the life of the blessed sulan recorded by her loyal follower mei nevrekti in the year of ersada under the light of the great god su the blessed sulan began her life in this cycle under a different name she was born to parents who lived on the island of mei and grew as many young women did she fell into reading silently eyes scanning the page rapidly kedi watched from the adjoining sofa her friend s face grew very pale and her breath began to come in short gasps after a moment her hands began to shake and the book fell unnoticed to the floor wisps of ginger hair blowing with the sand blood running across paving stones colored lights play across temple walls stars spin slowly overhead suka what s wrong her friends voice sounded far away almost as though it were underwater as kedi s hand closed on hers she looked up into those blue eyes it was as if kedi was out of focus the eyes were the same but sometimes she had the bronze skin of the kedonese and at another instant her color was as pale as the ersans suka looked down at her own hands they seemed to shift between her own pale skin the broze of the traditional kedonese and the dark brown of the astaldi the moment passed and suka sank back into the cushions of the couch kedi shrieked and dashed to her friend s side suka suka what happened are you alright suka s eyes fluttered open and she slowly sat up oh my kedi slipped her arm around her friend s shoulder and helped her sit up here let me loosen your corset you need to breathe the metal slid back and suka felt the air fill her lungs oh yes that s better what happened why did you faint i that book i started remembering it and remembering more things more details than it gave i knew names and places before it mentioned them i she shook her head no it s insane this can t be happening the younger girl fidgeted on the couch it s alright you can tell me even if it s crazy who would i tell it to suka laughed quietly and nodded fair enough kedi i think i lived through these things i think i was one of these people that sounds so mad doesn t it it doesn t seem like the sort of thing that would happen in this day and age kedi shrugged slightly i don t know maybe your imagination just got a little overactive today i think maybe you had best lie down and rest for a while here you can lie down on the sofa my mother won t be back until later and she wouldn t mind anyway we can turn the lights down and you can just rest for awhile she carefully turned down the lights and settled herself back down on the sofa suka let herself relax and tried not to think about the images that had flowed through her mind as she drifted off into sleep the last thing she saw was a pair of green eyes floating above an open sea the ship perzelsis pulled into the dock four days later and the passengers began to disembark they were chatting gaily amongst themselves skin and eyes bright from the fresh air and sunshine suka and gehne arranged for their luggage to be sent to the house and suka made her way through the crowd towards kedi and her mother kedi suka waved above the crowd and saw an answering hand a few yards away after a moment the two girls stood together trying not to be jostled apart by the mass of travelers suka can you come over to my house sometime this week i found something that i think you should see kedi had to shout to make herself heard over the babble of cheerful voices and suka nodded yes just send me a note and let me know when to come my mother will want me at home for the first few days but i should be able to come for a few hours later in the week alright i will send you a message as soon as i can i really enjoyed the trip suka nodded as she began edging her way through the crowd again yes i enjoyed it as well i will come see you soon when suka arrived back at the cart which was now laden with luggage gehne signed to the 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