Expansion: A World Wright Inc. Venture by Vlad ben Avorham

Author:Vlad ben Avorham [ben Avorham, Vlad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

They were shown to their rooms and allowed time to rest before their audience with the governor that evening, before dinner. The rooms were lavish. Servants were everywhere. Only their confidence in not being understood in English allowed them anything approaching actual privacy. While they did not confiscate their weapons, they were informed that other than for John, who’s noble dignity would demand that he not be disarmed, they deemed it unnecessary for anyone else. The Governor would provide all necessary security during their stay. This didn’t sit well with Eli’s Texan sensibilities. Even Evita was uncomfortable with how uncomfortable she was about being told to go disarmed and as a general rule she disapproved of being armed. Fortunately, it didn’t really matter. Much of what they carried for weaponry, the powerful stuff anyway, wouldn’t be recognized as such easily. Small improvised grenades, smoke bombs, and a half a dozen other incendiaries, explosive, or chemical weapons. No, they hadn’t made mustard gas, but some quick lime that with only the addition of some water will generate enough heat to melt through the central barrier separating the two parts. Eli didn’t know which of a dozen different reactions it was the Roths were using in this thing, but when they said plant it, wet it and run. Eli did smile slightly at that memory. He was glad that the Roth’s were on their side.

Obtaining what privacy he could muster by use of carefully placed furniture and piles of his own armor, Eli opened the small note and fought the urge to swear. While he was confident that the message was in Hebrew which he read fluently, it was not written it the familiar script used by Jews around the world since the Babylonian captivity, but rather in the earlier more pictographic characters of what linguists called Proto-Siniatic Hebrew similar but even earlier than what was used by the Samaritans. This alone lent credence to wild theories that Eli didn’t dare to let himself seriously entertain. It wasn’t a simple task, and he got no rest before their audience with the Governor. He began by converting the simple characters that were obvious, and those that he could remember with ease. Then he moved to those which could be reasonably discerned after some careful study. Then looked for what would make familiar words that fit into the context he had from the message. This was not easy as the lack of vowel points meant that the same spelling could mean different words depending on which vowels were intended. However, by the time he had dressed and was ready to depart for their meeting, he had converted the entire message into modern Hebrew script. A text that he was confident now, in this entire world, only he and the Roths could read. He tucked away this valuable information, frustrated that it would do him no good until they arrived in Xi, and destroyed the original copy lest it be discovered by the spies that Ariel confirmed were in fact watching his every move.

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