Lloyd, calmer now, watched the projected images of the destruction and misery with Brook. He revealed that they also have gadgets like this one, in Besten. It was yet another artifact unearthed from the vault library, there.
"The ancient peoples called them computers, I believe. Knowledge could be given to it and later, one could retrieve it again, if needed. The Prominants of Besten had only just begun to understand their workings and uses, when the ArchBishop banned trade with us. So we had to divert our attentions to becoming self-sufficient."
Lloyd pushed some buttons on the flat key pad and the black-glass panel displayed some more words. The white screen again showed the rapid images. The growth of human life and their transportation, throughout the suppressed history of their people (up to the Twentieth Century). All this flashed by in a matter of minutes.
Lloyd and Brook resumed their conference while they watched the screen.
"Maybe he heard about the excavation and what was found. Maybe this frightened him." Brook considered.
"If so, then why did he impose the embargo on us? Surely he'd know that would only infuriate us; and if we did have something to hurt his power with, do you suppose that we'd hesitate to use it?"
Brook shrugged unknowingly and smiled as he delivered a quick-witted answer.
"I didn't say that he was a smart man!" he said, then they both laughed.
Soon, the note of conversation once again became serious.
"Why hasn't he tried to destroy your computer?" asked Lloyd.