Chapter 17: Edie to the Rescue
It was only after Jones and Sonam left for their exploratory excursion a day or two after the confrontation in the library that Edie calmed down sufficiently to pursue what had happened logically.
She spent a lot of time each night lying awake on her yak-wool mattress listening to Henry snore on the other side of the room and thinking. She couldn’t go back and check her decoded text, because Jones had taken the two journals and their transcriptions with her. She was certain in her own mind that she had been correct in her conclusions. She could almost remember it verbatim. Today I pulled enough kias to make the shimmer completely visible, and a gate began to glow. I am certain it opens into the shimmer as did the one at the centre of the Kargil pattern wher
