by Alex Archer
It shouldn’t surprise her, she realized. These were the same people, after all—or their descendants, anyway—who had hidden combat training from their masters in a dance.
She closed out the file she was working on, anthropological notes she was never, ever going to be able to publish, and shut her laptop. Laying it aside, she clicked off the television and the light and lay down to sleep. Her thoughts were jumbled. She knew she’d agreed to have her memory altered by the Promessans. She wasn’t sure anymore what had been real or what she’d imagined. She was content to know she’d helped to accomplish something good.
THE PHONE SHOOK her rudely out of sleep.
“Hello?” Usually she snapped straight to full wakefulness. Maybe I still haven’t healed as much as I thought.
“Annja sweetie honey?”
“Doug?”
“The network wants extra shows,” Doug Morrell, irrepressible producer for Chasing History’s Monsters, warbled in her ear. “We’re starting back up early. I’ve been calling you for days and days and days. What, did you fall off the edge of the Earth?”
“Something like that,” Annja said.
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