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trip to the Moon to satisfy that curiosity no."
"And if that creature really is an Annunaki," de-clared Kane darkly, ' 'then
its race was just as instru-
mental in the destruction of human civilization as its creation. From
everything we know about them, they had space flight and
hyperdimensional-travel capabil-ities while Man was still hanging out in
trees, right? When they arrived here, they used such brutal tactics on us that
ancient depictions of devils were based on early interactions by humanity and
Annunaki. That's why serpents came to be symbols of evil."
Lakesh raised his eyes from the scattering of print-out. Reprovingly, he said,
"That may have some truth to it, but even so we can't allow old superstitions
to color our next course of action."
"All right," Grant declared irritably. "Let's not go back to the dawn of
time let's just go back a couple of centuries. Didn't you tell us that in the
twentieth century, UFO abduction researchers came across re-
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working in tandem with the Grays, the Archons?"
Lakesh nodded. "I did. But they were reported in a relatively small percentage
of abduction cases."
"You also said the witnesses in those cases re-ported that the Archons showed
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the reptiles a marked deference," Kane argued. "What does that suggest to
you?"
Lakesh said slowly, reluctantly, "It suggests that Balam's people were either
working under the com-
mand of the Annunaki, their forebears, or simply tol-erating their presence,
like children who put up with set-in-their-ways grandparents."
Kane expelled a disdainful snort. "Oh, please
."
Doggedly, Lakesh went on, "The opportunity to learn where the Annunaki fled
after the pact with the
Tuatha de Danaan would be an extremely important pieces of data."
"Important to who?" Grant wanted to know.
Domi surprised them all by drawling, "Sam, the imperator." She glanced
questioningly at Lakesh.
"Right?"
He favored her with an affectionate smile. "Very, very right, darlingest girl.
We would have valuable information that neither the imperator nor Balam
pos-sesses."
"We don't know if they have that information or not," Kane retorted. "Or if
they even want it."
"Perhaps not," Lakesh replied smoothly. "But to employ a phrase that has been
used here a time or two in the past, there's only one sure way to find out."
He picked up a sheet of printout. "If the creature on the tape is indeed an
Annunaki, then we " His words didn't trail away; they simply ended abruptly as
if his voice clogged in his throat. He stared fixedly at the columns of
symbols and the translations on the paper. His eyes widened.
"Then we what?" Grant demanded impatiently.
Brigid leaned across the table, reaching for the pa-per in Lakesh's suddenly
trembling hand. "What is it?"
Lakesh allowed her to take the printout from his fingers. He coughed and in a
strained, hoarse tone he announced, "Apparently, the creature we saw on the
tape is not just 'an' Annunaki, but one of the two
'the' Annunaki."
Kane glared at him through slitted eyes. "What?"
"It was Enki, brother and rival to Enlil."
Chapter 14
The bottom level of Cerberus was some 150 feet be-low solid, shielded rock. It
held the nuclear genera-
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machine rooms and the air-conditioning core. A semidetached wing contained ten
detention cubicles, all of them as nicely appointed as the average flat in the
Cobaltville
Enclaves.
Lakesh tapped in the sec code on the door leading to the detention wing.
Followed by Kane, Grant and
Brigid, he walked through a dimly lit corridor that had once been bisected by
a wire-mesh security checkpoint. He paused before a door, looking through the
small ob slit.
"Our guest appears to be awake," Lakesh said qui-etly. "So we won't rouse her
and maybe she won't be so surly when we go in."
Grant and Kane took places on either side of the door. Both men were attired
in the black, formfitting shadow suits with dark glasses masking their eyes.
Earlier they had agreed that Brigid and Lakesh would be the ones to initially
interrogate Megaera, inasmuch as their presence might tend to intimidate her.
How-ever, they waited outside just in case intimidation be-came necessary.
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