Several red lines appeared on the map.Altamonte turned to me. “Does anything appear strange toyou?”
I was still shivering from our arcticsojourn so I was tempted to shrug and say no.
Then the red lines caught myattention.
“The ice moved in from the north,from the polar regions,” I said.
“Yes.”
“So the migration should have gonesouth, to warmer locales. But your lines have three separate tribesgoing north, into the freezing climate.”
“Yes. Odd, isn’t it?”
“Darn right it is. I assume you haveruled out stupidity as the reason they headed north.”
“Yes. I don’t think they weresuicidal or stupid. In fact, and this is a supposition and I havenohard evidence to back it up, but I suspect…” he tapped the end ofthe three red lines with the pointer. “…these were the mostintelligent of Jardoval
