Did you know that the ancients believed that the angels move the planets?” Nick turned to the man next to him and gave a bemused look. His friend and shipmate Tycho had always been an eccentric one.

He still had time. The assembly would not convene for some hours yet, Ethan reassured himself. Master had given him ample time to complete all of his tasks. “He always does,” Ethan remarked, to himself and no one but the passing countryside.