The “digging people” were three women with wild hair and woolly jumpers. They looked and acted like no one else and were, to quote Woody, in a class of their own.
Where they’d gotten the idea for woolly jumpers, no one had any idea, as they were too aloof to ask, although Woody had his suspicions: they looked just like the Archaeologists he’d seen on Earth TV.
Their training was so intense that only three qualified; once qualified, they upped the training to impossible levels that even Alice couldn’t fathom.
They even claimed to have decoded another language from the bowels of the tunnel, calling it script . . .
scriptThey were so intelligent they pulled apart and rebuilt H-Pads “for a laugh,” and they not only played quizzes but reinvented them—in script—just because they could.
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