“Have you already shown anyone this treatise?”
“No. That would be stupid. No one would take it seriously. I didn’t acknowledge it myself at first. Then afterward... when I saw everything with my own eyes... A person who hasn’t seen it will write it off as someone’s wild fantasy... You have to find some other way, some other way to convey this to the world... I don’t know how... Just not simply knock them over the head with it... maybe you can suggest something...”
“But what... what did you see there? In that Ratburg?” “In Ratburg?” Marko asked again, with such revulsion to that name, to the point that his eyes were gleaming. “Oh, I’ve seen a lot there! You couldn’t dream this in your sickest dream.”
His hand stretched to the tape recorder.
“Well! Well! Tell me!” I wanted to cry out, bu
