--- Eris Reddoch  wrote:

> The next morning, Shawn wakes early and makes his way down 
> to the laboratory. It is one of the places where he has 
> determined that there is a chance to overhear anything 
> happening in the gardens above.

OOC: So much for keeping Suz in the Dark. ;P
 
> The door to the lab is closed, as it should be, and opens to 
> his handprint. Inside the lights are on and he sees Arvitis 
> sitting in a chair with a pair of headphones on. He is 
> tinkering with a collection of parts at a workbench. The 
> headphones have a wire running from them to a breadboarded 
> device sitting on one corner of the workbench. From the 
> breadboarded device a pair of wires lead up to some sort of 
> circular metal disk attached to the wall somehow or other.
> 
> Arvitis is oblivious to Shawn's entry behind him, and 
> continues to bob his head and hum off key as he looks at 
> small parts through a magnifying glass and make notes in a 
> battered old black notebook.

Shawn stopped in his tracks. He didn't know Arvitis put in so many
hours. He did some spacial calculations and tried to determine if he
was, as Shawn began to suspect, a far second in the liust of people
that wanted to hear more of Mira. He stepped in and closed the door and
relocked it.

Shawn

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