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explanation
as if he'd spoken.

"We'll sound either side," the old man said after a moment. "It might only be
a
pocket...."

He slipped the marker back into the rack, then reached out and took the
ornately
decorated shaft of the sounder, delicately moving it a fraction to the
right,
long experience shaping his every movement.

"Same strength," he said. "One pulse, fifty beats, and then a second pulse."

At once his First Assistant leaned forward, adjusting the setting on the dial
in
front of him.

There was a moment's silence and then a vibration rippled along the shaft
toward
the tapered tip of the cone.

A single, pure, clear note sounded in the tiny chamber, like an invisible
spike
reaching out into the rock.

* * *

"What is he doing?"

Guild Master Telanis turned from the observation window to look at his
guest.
Master Kedri was a big, ungainly man. A member of the Guild of Legislators,
he
was here to observe the progress of the excavation.

"Guild Master Geran is surveying the rock. Before we drill we need to know
what
lies ahead of us."

"I understand that," Kedri said impatiently. "But what is the problem?"

Telanis stifled the irritation he felt at the man's bad manners. After
all,
Kedri was technically his superior, even if, within his own craft, Telams's
word
was as law.

"I'm not sure exactly, but from the mark he made I'd say he's located a patch