' There was a chuckle down the line.'Are you being my boss or my friend? If you're my boss then you're setting a wonderful example and I agree about t...e workload and I'll tear myself away from here and come with you to help, and if you're my friend I know precisely what you hope will come up, and I'll tear myself away from here, etc., etc.' Elena let out the breath she'd been holding.'I'm being both, really, because somebody showed me how to. If I get us seats on a flight tomorrow afternoon. Of course there are always the lunatics who think they'll turn up some precursor of Homer, or an eye-witness account of the Ark Of The Covenant or even the last will and testament of King Priam but I think that shows a mis-understanding of the Mycenaen mind. Poetry was spoken and shared. What point would there be in writing it down? Keeping track of the number of sheep or how much oil you had, well that's a different matter!"Freddie had some sympathy with her point of view. He'd always felt it. . uh, guys didn’t have anything to do with the attack, they probably were part of attacking other civilizations in the past...”“We treat them as equals until they prove they aren’t deserving of it, or we treat them as prisoners. If they are telling the truth, do you wish to turn them over to the authorities on Earth? They would be torn to pieces whether they had anything to do with the attack or not. And ... if he is telling the truth, the females didn’t have anything to do with any of. This, at least, according to Lore's most recently received reports. With the ten months required for word to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other, distant news is often incomplete and out of date.Lore has a radius of two thousand miles, about twice that of Earth's single moon. It orbits a sun similar in size and strength to Earth's Sun. Seven other planets inhabit the solar system, although these other planets are currently uninhabitable. For the moment, they provide plentiful.