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"The Ghost of Narrulla's Tear
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"Narrulla's Tear is all that's left of them
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"The ghost of Narulla's Tear?" Yorthops asked
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Kulai might ply her with two evenings of romance and culture in exchange for one union by the light of Narrulla on the cushion of their bedroom balcony
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She had not been friendly with Kulai until just the past couple local years, she'd lived here a little over three months as she had counted time on Narrulla's Tear
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Their ship was the last of the great daedelus sleepers and traveled so slowly that it reached Narrulla's null point late in the Earth year 2342, a hundred ninety four years from its launch
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"The starship that makes up two thirds of Narrulla's Tear's weight is why she's involved," he said
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My sister could build enough bots to render more metal from Narrulla than there is in your starship
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"So we have an asteroid coming toward us and an enemy starship, and Narrulla's Tear
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He had set up an audible alarm on any signal from Narrulla's Tear
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The starship is Narrulla's Tear
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He would keep quiet about Narrulla's Tear and believed starships might be possible, but not that they attacked
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He found that there were now reported to be two electric ghosts haunting Narrulla's tear
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There was mention of rescuing one from Narrulla's tear, but did not say who that was
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- The Ghosts of Narrulla's Tear
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"We're still in the null point between the moon the natives call Narrulla and the planet they call Kassidor
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"The natives call this body 'NahniNarrulla,' 'Narrulla's Tear'," Ava said, "and I've picked that up
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While those natives had to be informed by the one of their clan who had gone to a data terminal, the network was connected to everyone on Narrulla's Tear and she was able to query, 'what is known about an asteroid that could collide with the planet Kassidor?' and find out quite a lot
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A feed of all the channels Narrulla could currently open from the planet below was up on screens around them
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Just after he was done Narrulla's Tear passed into eclipse where they are unable to reach a lighted tower on the native data system and thus unable to continue a connection thru it
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If Althart had been correct in his back-of-the-envelope calculation of dendrite growth rates we probably would have succeeded and Narrulla's Tear would be inert wrecks of abandoned starships
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Getting that fabricator going was as much for the Heavenly Mother as Narrulla's Tear
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"Narrulla's Tear but," he paused
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It was on the limb of the planet to the main scope here on Narrulla's Tear, but nowhere near the limb of the planet from the geosynchronous
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But as the shuttlecraft made that one more orbit, Narrulla swung too far east to observe the Gengee chaparral, and its scope could no longer see what was happening out in the wilds of that basin
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There was no doubt that the shuttlecraft was on course to reach Narrulla's Tear, and could couple with the old lock on the Lula in as little as two hours
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We're sitting ducks off Narrulla's nose like this
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"The moon called Narrulla and our ships, as seen from the ground
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"I'm sorry if I forgot to tell you, but is it possible you forgot? It isn't a threat, it is related to the ghost in Narrulla's Tear
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I am in a virtual universe in Narrulla's Tear, up here with your starship and can adjust my personification at will
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Narrulla was up now
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How many campfires could they slew it to while Narrulla was overhead? She wasn't thinking of that, she said, "I think I can understand something of what you feel coming here
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By then the string of asteroids with the plasma plume had swung close by Narrulla, then become much more spread out and had moved off almost to the orbit of Onchegeela
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In this one Narrulla and the asteroid remaining at the null point had swung around in it's orbit so it was opposite the string of asteroids that were moving away in the direction of Kunae
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Most of the presumed boulders had fallen from the null spot, swooped by Narrulla, missing it by only a few hundred miles, and been flung out of the system in the direction of Kunae
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Nuplayy couldn't tell how much energy without knowing the mass of the objects and the last few weeks he had been writing about how to determine their mass by observing Narrulla
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He needed an axis of motion to follow Narrulla and another to follow the seasons
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No candle in a window is as bright as Kunae in the sky, 61Cygni B, a much brighter star than any in Earth’s sky, even Venus, but nothing compared to the full moon of Narrulla, which gave only a quarter the light of Earth’s
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“There was a starship full of them in the 55th, before the frozen human one,” Ava said quickly, “and a couple still there on Narullla’s Tear
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She lives in a universe of complete magic tied to ours by that ‘fabricator,’ the device that builds her virtual world out of Narrulla
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She talked about the media view of them and then mentioned that she’d heard a Yingolian ghost was rescued from Narrulla’s Tear
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There had never been a public claim by the Kassikan that Ava was the person they had transferred, they had started a rumor that the soul transferred had been lost and might have come up under any helmet within sight of Narrulla at the time
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Narrulla would come back to this side of the planet in a couple hours and the main scope would be able to see them
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Somewhere he knew that he should check for Narrulla in the sky, but couldn’t
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What was it, ten or twelve hours now? Had they swung the main scope this way? Narrulla was up again, it passed overhead from west to east every light and every dark, so if they had, they could see him now
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“Listening to that dyke that’s up there, I’m not sure Kunae is far enough away, but Narrulla’s way too close
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” Narrulla was up now and it’s mottled light played across her body as she sat in the windowsill
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After that she changed subjects a bit, “So your starship is now on Narrulla?”
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“Unless you’ve got a nice telescope, one that could show Narrulla up about this big
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“Over towards Noonitondow, the University there has an observatory with telescopes that would show it up much bigger than that, they’ll show craters on Narrulla that big
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She was silent for awhile, staring at Narrulla
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He’d been told Narrulla looked half the diameter of Earth’s moon from the ground
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One of the astronomers up there had written about what were believed to be some asteroid fragments that had become trapped in the gravitational null between Narrulla and the world this decade
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Now a Nuplayy of Ebnaiyah out of Kln has published some observations on the new and tiny chain of moons, stuck in Narrulla’s null point
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I believe that you are actually located in the piece of your ship which remains parked in Narrulla's inner null point
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She had to cut off, but she was frozen, how could she answer these questions? Should she pretend she was sitting in one of the buildings nearby in Zhlindu? Controlling the probe from there? She was just using the asteroid pinball with Narrulla as a convenient prop for a story she wanted to sell? But before she could start to blurt that out, he continued his own line of questioning
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All who live on in the silicon of that asteroid above Narrulla, and all who live on in the silicon of the asteroids that have gone to Kunae and all who live in the crystals of the asteroids of YingolNeerie
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"In that boulder off Narrulla's nose
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"The official plan was that there wasn't any real possibility of life here, any planet in the habitable zone of a star this small would be tide locked facing the star by gravity the way Narrulla is
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"How well I know," she said as she snuggled deeper into his lap and watched Narrulla become redder as it came out of eclipse in the sky above
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"I don't know, there is a side of me that says until I can no longer see Narrulla hurtle by in the dark
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In real life he knew Narrulla was a lifeless ball of dirt and rock barely larger than the outer city and more airless than the spine of the Kinsheeta Waste
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He eventually won me over, he has too much data, there was the attack Luray wrote about, and the astronomical press is full of the moonlets in the Narrulla null point
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They are haunted by ghosts made up of electricity in silicon crystals that are still up in those moonlets up by Narrulla
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His only advantage was that their souls were up in Narrulla and that would be at least a quarter second away
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The delay in response between here and Narrulla had allowed him the time he needed, its actions were always resisting his previous move and helped him get the robot up in the air
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Up to a half second delay in the round trip of the signals to Narrulla and back and relatively low-level autonomous functions
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Desa didn't see them as three humans sitting across the coach, she saw three machines disguised as humans that might be communicating with the ghosts of human souls in the starship high above Narrulla
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She noticed that their reaction time was slower since Narrulla was out of the sky
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She remains trapped in the boulder that was left by Narrulla once again
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"They've all gone back to YingolNeerie but one, she's still in the moonlet between here and Narrulla
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All astronomers agreed there was still an asteroid stuck in Narrulla's inner null point, but a sizable fraction of astronomers still say cometary outgassing could account for the behavior of the other bodies
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“Subject to objection from any member of the court, the objection is overrulled
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And he only lets his closest lackeys anywhere near, unless you’re Grulla the chambermaid or one of the two pageboys who carry him his bathwater
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Al – Hakim Biamrullah destroyed thirty thousand churches in his dominions
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she trully was a pretty lady, my pretty lady
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ALL POSITIVE ENERGY FEEDS BACK WHAT IT IS FED AND REFLECTS IT BACK MORE POWERULLY THAT IT WAS SENT
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"Good, by God!" said Sancho Panza; "I could have told myself that; the prophet Perogrullo could have said no more
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The Arch-astronomer of Krull motioned lightly with his hand and his bearers set the throne down in the shadow of the hull
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While the two men helped themselves to some more of the green wine, he told them about the Circumfence, the great effort that had been made to build it, and the ancient and wise Kingdom of Krull which had constructed it several centuries before, and the seven navies that patrolled it constantly to keep it in repair and bring its salvage back to Krull, and the manner in which Krull had become a land of leisure ruled by the most learned seekers after knowledge, and the way in which they sought constantly to understand in every possible particular the wondrous complexity of the universe, and the way in which sailors marooned on the Circumfence were turned into slaves, and usually had their tongues cut out
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"They all talk like that in Krull," said Tethis
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That's what they say in Krull
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"That'll be passed from lengthman to lengthman all the way back to Krull," he said
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After we've seen Krull, of course
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"Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that idea? Your lives in Krull will be rich, full
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Krull turned out to be a large island, quite mountainous and heavily wooded, with pleasant white buildings visible here and there among the trees
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The land sloped gradually up towards the rim, so that the highest point in Krull in fact slightly overhung the Edge
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Here the Krullians had built their major city, also called Krull, and since so much of their building material had been salvaged from the Circumfence the houses of Krull had a decidedly nautical persuasion
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Painted figureheads and hublandish dragonprows reminded the citizens of Krull that their good fortune stemmed from the sea; barquentines and carracks lent a distinctive shape to the larger buildings
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The hut was smashed to fragments as the monster charged through it, although Terton survived by clinging to the Circumfence; some weeks later he was picked up by a returning salvage fleet, subsequently escaped from Krull on a hijacked lens (having developed hydrophobia to an astonishing degree) and after a number of adventures eventually found his way to the Great Nef, an area of the Disc so dry that it actually has negative rainfall, which he nevertheless considered uncomfortably damp
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"The Krullians intend to launch a bronze vessel over the edge of the Disc
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At least, so the Krullians say
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And so, in an attempt to reduce the risks, the Arch-astronomer of Krull has bargained with Fate to sacrifice two men at the moment of launch
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"The goddess said two men were going to be sent over the Edge," he said, his eyes gleaming, "and you remember Tethis the troll saying you'd need some kind of protection? The Krullians have got over that
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And this was awkward, because although Rincewind considered himself an expert in most of the tongues of the western segments of the Disc it was the first time that he had ever been addressed in Krullian, and he did not understand one word of it
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The ruler of Krull and the Circumfence considered this for a moment, then shrugged
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The roar of the assembled people of Krull was deafening
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As the chelonauts and their guards crossed the great arena, passing between the many altars that had been set up for the various wizards and priests of Krull's many sects to ensure the success of the launch, the Arch-astronomer frowned
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That was the signal for every magician, enchanter and thaumaturgist in Krull to leap up eagerly and, under the terrified eyes of their master, unleash the first spell that came to each desperate mind
