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Enough was enough: quite suddenly, that was how Hermione felt about all this. As the picky, preposterous, pointless conversation continued, with a faint smile on her lips Hermione wrote a couple of lines of her immaculate Pitman shorthand, laid her pad on the desk in front of her, and after a nod of permission from the Prime Minister she stood and left the room. Probably nobody else even noticed she was gone. She walked out into Downing Street, and stepped into the London next door, which swarmed with security guards, but she was such a familiar sight after all these years that they accepted her identity card and let her pass. And then she stepped again. And again, and again Much later, when she was missed, one of the other secretaries was called in to translate the little note that she had written, the delicate strokes and swirling curves. It looks like a poem to me, sir. Or a song lyric. Something about people criticizing what they cant understand. She looked up at the Prime Minister. Mean anything to you, sir Sir Are you all right, sir Have you got a husband, misssorry, I dont know your name Its Caroline, sir. Ive got a friend, a steady , good with his hands. I can get you a doctor if you want. No, no. Its just were all so bloody inadequate, Caroline. What a farce it is, this business of government. To imagine we were ever in control of our destinies. If I were you, Caroline, I would marry your steady right now, if you think hes any good, and go, go to another world. Anywhere but here. He slumped in the chair and shut his eyes. And God help England, and God help us all. She wasnt sure if he was asleep or awake. At length she slipped out, taking Hermiones abandoned pad with her.

WITHIN A WEEK of her meeting with Clichy, Janssons colleagues had started calling her Spooky Jansson. And within a month, she had made an appointment at the Home, as Joshua called it. It was an orphanage, a rundown converted section8 apartment complex on Allied Drive, in an area that was about as rough as it got in Madison. But you could see the place was well kept. And there she quietly met, once more, fourteenyearold Joshua Valient. She had sworn that if Joshua dealt through her she would guarantee that nobody would treat him as a Problem, but as somebody who might be able to help out, maybe, you know Like Batman That was how, for several years after Step Day, Joshuas young life had been shaped. That must seem a long time ago to you now, Selena said smoothly, leading Joshua deeper into the transEarth complex. He didnt reply. So you became a hero. Did you wear a cape asked Selena. Joshua didnt like sarcasm. I had an oilskin for rainy days. Actually, that was a joke. I know. Yet another forbidding door opened in front of them, another corridor was revealed. Makes Fort Knox look like a colander, this place, doesnt it Selena said nervously. Fort Knox is a colander nowadays, said Joshua. Its just lucky that people cant carry out bars of gold by hand. She sniffed. I was merely making a comparison, Joshua. Yes. I know. She halted. The way hed paused in the middle of that reply was annoying, and even more annoying when what shed really been trying to express was that, even now, all this business of stepwise worlds could be so frightening. Not to Joshua, it seemed. She forced a brief smile. This is where I leave you, at least for now. I am not allowed to get too close to Lobsang. Very few people are. I know Lobsang wants to discuss your difficulties with the congressional review thats been looking into the outcome of your earlier jaunt into the remote stepwise worlds.

The voice of Lobsang said soothingly, I ought to have paid more attention to that. Yes I mean the fire. Oh, dont worry, Joshua, Im no mindreader, not yet; you were glancing at the fire every few seconds and you have a tendency to move your lips soundlessly when you are counting. Interestingly enough, nobody else has noticed that little flaw, with the fire. But of course, Joshua, you do notice. You watch, and listen, and analyse, and inside that roomy cranium of yours you play yourself little videos of all the possible outcomes of the current situation that you can envisage. It was once said of an English politician that if you kicked him in the butt not a muscle would move on his face until he had decided what to do about it. Its one of the qualities that makes you so useful, that watchfulness.

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She was fishing, of course. Joshua suspected that this was, in fact, the leverage Lobsang hoped to use to recruit him. He said nothing, and she couldnt gauge his reaction. She guided him gently into the room beyond. Nice to have met you face to face, Joshua. He said, May I wish you the security rating you desire, Selena. She stared at the closing door. She was sure that impassive face had broken into a smile. The room within this fortresslike inner sanctum was decorated like the study of an Edwardian gentleman, even down to the log fire blazing in the fireplace. The fire was a fake, however, and not entirely convincing, at least to Joshua, who lit a genuine log fire every night out in the wild. The leather on the chair standing invitingly beside the fire, however, was real. Good afternoon, Joshua, said a voice from the air. I regret that you cannot see me, but in point of fact there is very little of me here to see. And what there is, I feel sure, would be quite dull to observe. Joshua settled down in the chair. For a time there was silence, almost companionable. Beside him, the fire crackled artificially. You could tell, if you listened, because of certain sequences of crackle, that the soundtrack was repeated every fortyone seconds. And you are not apprehensive, are you I can detect no fear in you, none whatsoever. I believe this is because you are the only person who has been in this fortress of a room who knows that he could get out at any moment. Why Because you can step without a Stepper box oh, yes, I know about that. And without getting nauseous afterwards, too. Joshua did not rise to that. Selena said you had something to tell me, about the congressional review Yes, the expedition. You got into trouble with that one, didnt you, Joshua Look there are only two of us in here, arent there So, if you give it some thought, there is no reason whatsoever why you should repeatedly tell me what my name is. I know why youre doing it. Dominance. This was a lifelong bugbear for Joshua. I may not be too clever, Lobsang, but you dont have to be clever to work out what the rules are For a while there was nothing but the repeated crackling of the false fire. Later, Joshua came to understand that if there was a pause in a conversation with Lobsang, it was for effect; at the clock speeds he worked at, Lobsang could answer any question a fraction of a second after you asked it, yet after the equivalent of a lifetime of contemplation.