“But you said the Lumagom would destroy you if they knew what you were doing. Wouldn"t they try to stop you?”
He shrugged. “You let me worry about that.”
“What if the time hole doesn"t go far enough back in the past?” I countered.
“Let me worry about that also.” He smiled and I took no comfort in it.
I frowned and he recognized the frustration in my face. His monocled eye studied me.
“You are the new Cartographer,” he said matter-of-factly. “I know about the safeguards that the former Cartographer put on the map. I also know that the Explorer"s League has been unable to unlock it since his untimely death. You are the new Cartographer, therefore you must have unlocked it. I need that information.”
“OK,” I sighed. “If you already know where the hole on Earth is, why do you need the map
