“I think you’ll agree it’s equally clear we aren’t simply—somehow—somewhere else on our known world. Captain Holland assures me the moon and stars are all where they belong, but even here—a hundred miles from where we were wrecked—we should be swimming instead of standing on an undiscovered land full of unknown creatures and people. All these things you know, but evidence amassed by the officers of this . . . Detached Expeditionary Force, and more presented by our new friends and allies”—he jerked a nod toward Varaa-Choon and Ixtla, who’d stepped up beside her horse—“convinces me our
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