"I agree with that, Your Majesty," Prince Travann said. "If it's as important as I think it is, Professor Dandrik is greatly to be censured for ordering it stopped and for failing to report this anticipation effect."
"We'll consult about the inquiry, including the experiment, tomorrow, Your Highness," Tammsan told Travann.
Paul rose, and everybody rose with him. "That being the case, you gentlemen are all excused. The students' procession ought to be arriving, now, and I want to tell them what's going to be done. Prince Travann, Count Tammsan; do you care to accompany me?"
Going up to the central terrace in front of the Octagon Tower, he turned to Count Tammsan.
"I notice you laughed at that remark of mine about Aditya," he said. "Have you met the First Citizen?"
"Only on screen, sir. He was at me for about an hour, this morning. It seems that they are reforming the educational system on Aditya. On Aditya, everything gets reformed every ten years, whether it needs it or not. He came here to find somebody to take charge of the reformation."
He stopped short, bringing the others to a halt beside him, and laughed heartily.
"Well, we'll send First Citizen Yaggo away happy; we'll make him a present of the most distinguished educator on Odin."
"Khane?" Tammsan asked.