“—instruction machine,” finished Jonnie, “and taught them Psychlo from scratch!”
“And they converted it back to Pali! That Psychlo minesite down there is pretty smashed, but it had a dictionary and some other books in a fireproof safe, and they’ve been going like a racehorse ever since. So we can talk to them.”
The singsong was going on. They were speaking with a Chinko accent, just like Jonnie and the pilots!
“You like that, Lord Jonnie?” said Chief Monk Ananda in Psychlo. “They not only sing it out, they also talk it really well.”
Jonnie applauded them loudly and they cheered. He knew what he was going to propose here.
“Is this all of them?” said Jonnie.
No, there were about forty more, but it was quite a scramble down here from the monastery. It took ropes and climbing skill and h
