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Gateway to Xanadu by Sharon Green – Chapter 1Chapter 1
By the time the gentle chime sounded that was obviously supposed to wake me, I
was already up and dressed. I didn’t have much in the room that needed putting
together, and that was mostly done, too. Which was definitely a good thing,
since I didn’t know how to turn that gently chiming alarm off. It must have been
set by Val before he left, and waking up to find him already gone had surprised
me. As excited as I felt about going home, I wouldn’t have believed it possible
for someone to leave that room without waking me. If I’d slept alone the night
before, I probably wouldn’t even have slept.
I stuffed my spare ship’s suit into the small monolon bag, smoothed the bag
closed, then turned to look over the blue-green, brown and white room one last
time. I didn’t really expect to see anything I’d accidentally left behind, and I
didn’t; I hadn’t shared the room long enough with Val. The last look around was
a good-bye to most of the strangeness I’d run into there in the Absari base
around Tildor, a volume of space no one in my Federation knew anything about.
I’d bumped into the Absari Watchers of the backward planet Tildor, had helped
out with a chore on the planet, and now was heading back to my Federation with a
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