STORY------ Mayata had just sheathed her sword when she heard a voice approaching her from off to her right. "There you are, FINALLY." She turned to see a fussy looking litle man approaching her, obviously speaking to her. He was dressed something like the stranger Lydia had been. Mayata frowned as the animated little man looked her over. "You DO look precisely the part but this is no excuse for cutting the time so thinly. Come, come we must get inside. We need to have you in place before people start to gather." The strange man took Mayata by the upper her arm and began bussling her towards an awning covered doorway. Mayata had yet to speak, her mind was reeling, trying to make sense out of where she was. It was obvious to her that Lydia was from a different place...orrrrr....time? Either way Mayata seemed to have landed in that place now. How it had happened she could not quite guess. She couldn't seem to remember anything before steeping into the bright light, not even WHY she had stepped into it. There had been someone else there, a stranger called Lydia. Beyond that her thoughts were clouded, perhaps a combination of shock and an after effect of the light. But, for the moment at least, it seemed to make sense to go along with the self-important little man. AT least he seemed to have been expecting her. He led her into a large room that appeared to have been organized like a complicated maze. The walls of the maze corridors where formed by massive shelves filled with what looked to Mayata like tablets of some kind. The man led her quickly through the maze, obviously he knew its secrets, to an amazing stack of tablets that nearly reached the ceiling. Mayata froze, pulling back against the mans grip on her arm. There on the face every single one of the tablets was a picture....of her. The small man lost his grip on her arm and looked back at her sharply, then paused, grinning. "Yes, impressive isn't it. It's every book in the series, 100 copies each. Somewhere in there is a single autographed copy. Whoever find, and buys, THAT one gets the whole series, in hardback, for free. Your job is to entertain the crowd while making sure they don't search through the books. The one they touch first is the one they buy. Make sense?" Mayata didn't respond. The small man shook his head impatiently, "Listen, pose for pictures, play the part all you like, but make sure they only look at one volume each or the contest won't work." With that the man scurried off into the maze Leaving Mayata staring at the shrine...to her. ------STORY Not as well written as I would have liked by internet access is limited this trip. The idea came to me as soon as she stepped out of the alley. I hope it works with the multiple Mayatas. I think I lost track of them in there somewhere. :)