was plunged into sharp relief. Werner also noticed the giant cloud and looked at it as if a bad omen. He got up from the wall with a worried expression. The skiers resumed the interrupted descent and reached the meeting point. The helicopter was waiting, a flurry of snow around it. As soon as the pilot spotted them, he turned on the engines.
When Oskar returned to his room in Kirkwasser, he fell on the bed exhausted. The Great Circuit had become an immense reticular construction, which was out of control. Doctor Werner was a powerful man, a shareholder in the consortium, and he, Oskar, had been introduced as a specialist in logical networks. Since he had proven he was able to ski, Werner would ask him to collaborate. This entailed being directly involved in managing the Great Ski-lift. W
