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And he had to do it quickly, before the changes he was experiencing threatened
to overwhelm him.

For one thing, the unpredictable, skull-pounding headaches he had suffered from
since childhoodтАФthe ones that caused blinding flashes of light behind his eyesтАФ
were growing worse, in intensity if not frequency. When and if it occurred,
would he be able to tell the difference between a common headache and a
cerebral hemorrhage? Would he be able to deal with the physical as well as the
mental consequences of the changes he was undergoing? He needed answers to
all the old questions about himself, as well as to the new ones, and he needed
them soon.



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Of all the billions of humans on all the settled worlds scattered across the vast
length and breadth of the Commonwealth, no one could claim that "nobody
understands me" with the depth of veracity of a tall young redhead named Philip
Lynx, who was called Flinx.

Before setting his small transfer craft down at the Nazca shuttle-port north of
Tacrica, he had spent much time in free space planning his approach to the grand
library that was Earth. First he had tried accessing the Shell, the free and
omnipresent information network that spanned the globe, from one of the
numerous orbiting stations that circled the planet. Unsurprisingly, the small
segment he was able to access from orbit had been devoid of all but the most
fundamental, freely available birth information on the subject of himselfтАФ save
for one small historical reference to the destruction of the outlawed Meliorare
Society in 530, three years before his birth. That information was already known
to him. For what he wanted, for data that was no doubt restricted, banned, or
even under Church Edict, he would have to probe much deeper.

That meant accessing in person one of the intelligence hubs that sustained the
Shell. The Commonwealth Church and Science hub on Bali would have been
ideal, but presenting himself at a highly visible and tightly secured site that
offered only restricted access to the general public would have been asking for
troubleтАФespecially since he had entered its corridors once before, seeking
information then only on the specifics of his birth. Ignorant of how widely and
well his current physical description might have been disseminated to local
authorities, it behooved him while conducting his research on Terra to keep as
low a profile as possible. That meant avoiding the most famous and closely
monitored centers of research.



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