43 - Telling it Twice

“Honourable Father. Might I speak to you a moment?”He was in the Celestial Chamber, sitting in the chair in the middle of the orrery, the jewelled orbs of the planetary bodies rotating around him. The knowledge of the motion of moons and planets had been, mostly, kept from when we lived in the stars. He pulled the lever, stopping the motion of the mechanism, so his chair was close to the floor. “