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1. I Just Want To Have Something To Do
-Ramones
2. Blew Away
-Smashing Pumpkins
I. Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais
Coquelles- the ancient star gate at the opening of an antique & long forgotten worm hole twisting through space & time; Astira knew the opposite end of the hole opened up at the majestic White Cliffs of Dover. The ivory cliffs formed a natural high barricade for the castle of the White Queen. Here, the hidden passage would lead her to Archimedes & Merlin- key members of the Second Foundation.
But tonight she roamed the streets of Coquelles. The French blue dusk deepened in a golden bloom of stars. Her i5 lit the way.
Thieves in the night, the Count led Voltaire down a discrete and narrow series of steps cut from the rock on the moonlit banks of the Seine. A poachers' darkened boat moved gently up and down on the water, moored to heavy iron rings deeply embedded into rock. The Count signaled with a small gesture of his hand- a small airlock opened and a short ramp materialized. Within a few short seconds the Count & Voltaire entered the Twinkling Star.
"Monsieur X, the Foundation agent Sauveur has paid us in full, and now we pay you with interest," said the Captain.
"All is well then." said the Count.
"But tell me Captain, where is your Princess Lei?"
"You know her then?" asked the Captain, with a curious look.
"Who really knows anybody in our world?" replied the Count.
"Well, Monsieur X, the Princess travels everywhere at a moments notice- nobody knows where she is half of the time."
"I see." said the Count. And he gazed at her red table as though it were a sacred Valentine.
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