*
“But what does it mean, I mean, why insist upon this sort of ‘Geometric Embedding’?”
“There may be several reasons, but one is certainly preservative.”
“Coding may be another…”
“…And quit possibly, keying.”
“Keying sounds interesting?”
“Keying is still problematic, highly problematic…”
“Oh, yes?”
“…Not the concept, that’s sound enough.”
“We only have to consider ‘…Lir-Brood’ to know the difference possessing the correct key makes.”
“I know, I read through ‘…Turenn-Brood’ the other night…”
“Without a key?”
“…Nothing. Flat… Anyway, then they wouldn’t let me sleep until I’d amended one of the books and after I’d made the changes they… erm… dropped a little morsel.”
“A little morsel?”
“Well, a trail of crumbs, really…”
“Well, go on then!”
“The geometries are all at the start…”
“I’d realised that. And also that it is not without good reason that a certain spiritual teacher, who shall remain nameless, refers to geometries as ‘angels’.”
“Not angles?”
“Angels as in Heralds.”
“Trumpet blasts… that would fit.”
“Fit what?”
“We’ve been looking for the way, remember?”
“The way in?”
“If you like… The eye-guy, Conan, in ‘Crucible…’, what’s his role?”
“He’s a look-out.”
“And by extension…”
“A porter?”
“More specifically?”
“A Door-Keeper! But we’ve not done the eye-guy yet?”
“Not properly, no, but it’s in that story…”
“The way in?”
“The way in.”
“Crafty, that…”
“They are!”
*
‘Kith ‘n’ Kin’
