Let's see... I'm about two meters from the wall here. So the diameter of the cylinder is 1452 meters... Let me try the verticals next..." Jim, Cindy....." A'moth called out. "Both these stairs and the platforms are numbered. Each stair is numbered, the top one is labeled 25,200. And I think the platform itself is labeled zero-degrees."Cindy nodded. "I've been counting the platforms. I think there's one for each fifteen degrees of rotation, thirty-six platforms in all maybe..."Jim reported, "I. Why had she gone without waking me? It had been a beautiful night. Had I done something wrong?I went to the window and looked across to see if she was in her bed. But her apartment looked empty. It surely couldn’t be but… the bed she’d played on, the nightstand where she’d kept her favorite cock, they’d gone. Everything had gone. What had happened? Where is she?Putting on jeans and a T-shirt, I went to the apartment manager and asked him where my beauty was. “Who are you talking about? Beauty?. Mostly because he has Hornwood blood coursing through his veins. One of only a handful of knights in the entire North.“This is Maester Allyn, also relatively new. Fresh from the Citadel, in fact. Odd timing, if you think of it. He’s quite the sharp maester, actually. He’s good friends with our septa, Gisila. Perhaps too friendly with her, eh? We’re one of only a few Northern houses adhering to the Faith of the Seven, while most are devoted to the old gods,” Wyman tried to converse normally with. That one gave me a lot of trouble because I was not sure that it was ethical. Sue explained it this way: “If someone was about to shoot you or a member of your family, would you want to prevent it? Of course you would! I have already given you several ways you could do that, but none of them are absolutely fail-safe. The one absolutely reliable way to prevent it that I know of is to make the person’s mind drop the idea. That’s what I mean by mind control.”“Okay, Sue, now that you put it that.