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IZTHO WENT TO a couch against the side wall in the shop, where he had left his screen, and turned it towards Jessica. “The markings on the walls in that cave you were talking about—did they look anything like this?”
He spoke Mirani and made no attempt to simplify his speech for her sake.
So he had been interested in her story about the cave. She made a note not to underestimate him again.
The screen displayed an image of a stone, like a brick in a wall. Carved grooves in the surface depicted, under each other, an arrow, two suns and three people. Her cheeks flushed, Jessica nodded.
He touched the screen. Another picture displayed an overview of a chamber with a flat dais in the middle, just like in the chamber she had visited with Ikay. The walls were covered in carvings. She whisp
