Watchers of the Dark
“Why didn’t he explain this?”
“Either he had so much to teach us that he forgot, or he left transmitters for Biag-n to explain. What are you mumbling about?”
“I was counting. There are just seventy-one possibilities. If we had a couple of days, we might figure the thing out.”
“You’re thinking of trying one slide at a time,” Darzek said. “They probably work in combination, too, which would make thousands of possibilities. Or maybe they’re used successively, like on a dial telephone. O...ur problem isn’t the number of destinations, but the fact that we have only one choice. Wherever we end up, we’re stuck there because we don’t know how to come back and try again.”
“Any place would be better than this,” Miss Schlupe said distastefully, tiptoeing around a puddle of ooze and touching her fingers to her nose.
“Not necessarily. The dead bodies in the next place could be our own.MoreLess
“Either he had so much to teach us that he forgot, or he left transmitters for Biag-n to explain. What are you mumbling about?”
“I was counting. There are just seventy-one possibilities. If we had a couple of days, we might figure the thing out.”
“You’re thinking of trying one slide at a time,” Darzek said. “They probably work in combination, too, which would make thousands of possibilities. Or maybe they’re used successively, like on a dial telephone. O...ur problem isn’t the number of destinations, but the fact that we have only one choice. Wherever we end up, we’re stuck there because we don’t know how to come back and try again.”
“Any place would be better than this,” Miss Schlupe said distastefully, tiptoeing around a puddle of ooze and touching her fingers to her nose.
“Not necessarily. The dead bodies in the next place could be our own.MoreLess
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