Watching Lin whisper and chat with her Amazon warrior-like pope, I suddenly remembered something that seemed unrelated to the current situation. Back when we returned from the Heisenwood World in the Redemund Twins Star System, we had seen a publicly broadcast message on the Empire communications network. It contained blessings for Big Dumb and the others.
That matter had seemed quite insignificant, and honestly had little to do with the present either. As for why it suddenly came to mind, the chain was rather convoluted: seeing Lin talk to the Amazon warrior made me think of her other believers; thinking of her other believers made me think of So Ya; thinking of So Ya made me think of the Twins Star System; and thinking of the Twins Star System made me think of that little incident from not long ago. See? My thought process was just that unconventional. Put a rock in front of me and there was no telling what I might associate it with. That was probably an important reason why Qian Qian and I got along so well: my associations paired with her creativity. Was there anyone else in the world more in sync than us?
When Sandora and I discovered that strange network-wide message, we had not thought much of it. We had simply assumed that some bored broadcaster had selected the wrong channel and turned a blessing message meant for the people involved into a network-wide broadcast. But now that I had suddenly remembered it again and saw Abyss Shilin before me, something clicked in my mind. "Oh, right, Abyss Shilin. I have something to ask you."
"Go on," Abyss Shilin replied with a single word.
"The Twins Star System... you know, the place called Redemund Heisenwood?" I looked into her eyes. "It used to