Contrary to the court etiquette, which requires the commander 
space travel with a fleet of escort, Bel Rayoz do without 
the latter. He was young and full of energy - it sufficed to 
an order to the supreme command and climb in a literal sense 
the edge of the world. In addition, Rayoz was lyubopyten, a universe full of 
the most diverse and incredible rumors about the edges. Provided 
an extremely tempting opportunity pouprazhnyatsya in the military art ... In 
Galaxy found no force capable of neutralizing a mixture of curiosity 
ambition. 
  Rayoz clumsy out of the ground vehicles from the porch of old house. 
Waited at the door. His eyes looked around the photon, but the door opened the man. 
The old man. 
  - My name is Rayoz - smiled him a general. 
  - Learn - the old man did not move from their seats. - What do you want? 
  - I came to the world - Rayoz retreated a step, and humbly bowing 
head. - If you Dyusem Barr will not give me attention. 
  Dyusem Barr missed the guest house. The general entered, noting that 
Inside the house does not seem so bleak. He moved the wall, and dirty fingers. 
  - At Sayvenne still belyat wall? 
  Barr smiled: 
  - Poor old belyat. Sorry, that will make you wait at the door. 
Photon guard reports on visitors, but it can not open. 
  - Why it did not fix it? - General surprised. 
  - No spare parts. Sit down, sir. Vypete tea? 
  - My dear sir! Can I refuse to tea at Sayvenne? Old 
patrician plummet guest stiff bow in the style of the aristocracy past 
century, and quietly left. 
  General became slightly ill at ease. He received his military education and 
entire adult life in military campaigns. Not once, as they say, 
looking death in the face, and never saw anything in the supernatural 
and mysterious. Not surprisingly, therefore, left alone in the shop 
Antiquities, General troubled. 
  In black box "of ivory", standing in rows on shelves, 
General угадал book. Their names were unfamiliar to him. Cumbersome apparatus of 
corner - probably a device to read books. General heard that 
there are such devices, but never seen. Someone 
told that in the good old days, when the Empire encompassed the entire 
Galaxy, in nine out of ten homes had such machines - and the same 
series of books.