posting 20050827

Amanda's eyes actually widened. If I were just ten percent less jaded, I thi
nk I might have fallen in love.
"What? No," I said. "I had an Atari when I was younger, but that was a long
time ago. Do you have any organs, like a heart or a brain?"
"Well, then," I said. "Let's go have a meeting."
"The ientcio is about to begin his speech," Gwedif said. "He has asked me on
ce again to translate for him so that you will understand what is being said
The translation will not be exact, I'm afraid -- Uake will be using a lot
of High Speech, which we use to quickly pass along large amounts of informat
ion. But I'll be able to give you the gist of it. If you have any questions,
let me know -- our talking isn't going to disturb the speech." He fell sile
nt for a few minutes and then started speaking again, starting and stopping
as Uake made his statements.