Narchi said,"So YES! I am really a little green man. I don't feel like showing ye lads right now because I'm not very practiced at changing me coloration." Cyrus asked,"Like the 'Martian Princess' here? Really?" Narchi shrugged, "Not quite the same color green, but certainly. Like me wife put it. People ON Earth are all different colors, so why would ANYONE with any sense think that people OFF Earth would look the same,either? I told ye what we know the Probability-Transformation-Engines and the Four Brothers." Phineas shook his head and said,"It disturbs me no END that the Four Brothers seem SO like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse! This all seems so BIBLICAL!" Narchi nodded."It would NOT be the first time we have run into people wearing the mantle of people's religion. It's a powerful twisting of people's belief to THEIR agenda! I don't actually believe for an INSTANT they are the real thing! Not for an INSTANT! They could have been seen by ancients in Palestine, seen through the Crystal plate, like ye and Cyrus did of Rose and other people on the Nautilus, OR they are super-powered FLIM-FLAM men! They are most definitely NOT angels of god! Forget that!" Cyrus asked,"Then WHY in tarnation are they coming HERE to fool around with them dang PTE things? Wouldn't ANY of them be as good as ours?" Narchi nodded,"THAT is the most important thing to ask, I think! NO ONE KNOWS! THAT is what disturbs me most!" Phineas said,"Maybe CHESS was the wrong game when I was thinking about it." Cyrus said,"How about this--where would YOU put the controlling all important main one of the lot?" Narchi said,"Probably NOT on me main planet! EVERYONE would think that and that would be the main target. I'd... HIDE IT SOMEWHERE where they'd never think to look!" Cyrus nodded. "Yep. My Pa always said, the best best way to hide a tree is in a forest, not in the plains. Maybe that's where them ancient forerunner folk hid their diamond. Not in the rough, but among all the other diamonds?" Phineas asked,"Now that is solved, why are you dressed like that,'Professor'?" Narchi said,"If I'm guarding the women while they are having a dream conference out of our sight, I want to be comfortable! These clothes are NOT made of WOOL and breath! My feet are obscenely comfortable in THESE boots! I ACTUALLY AM a Professor. Of Math and Engineering, actually--taught for several years at the Balaam Institute. Hated it. I prefer to be in the thick of it in the field" Cyrus exclaimed,"WHAT IN TARNATION? The Green princess just changed, unless I just went mad! She shrank and her ears changed!" As they watched, her clothes shifted and changed color. Narchi sighed,"Nope, ye're not not mad,lad." Narchi said to Phineas, "They be coming awake any second. Those buckets of water next to me grand-daughter on the bedroom hearth?" Phineas nodded,"Aye, but why? You said in case she awoke angry?" Narchi chuckled. "If she is, ye'll see!" Cyrus bent close to Mi'i and said."I think she's awake >KLUNK< OW!" When Mi'i sat up suddenly, they impacted heads with a loud sound. Cyrus fell to one knee. They held their heads and groaned. Mi'i shouted,"OWWWWW! YOU BROKE MY HEAD! Who is you?" Cyrus said,"I'm Cyrus Harding, your majesty! How did you change them ears of yours into Donkey ears?" Phineas exclaimed,"LOUT! You said the Princess has 'Donkey ears'?" Cyrus exclaimed,"I meant DOE EARS! Your hard head addled my brains!" Phineas asked,"'Hard head'?" Cyrus said,"Better than a SOFT HEAD!" He looked at her and said,"I meant your other-worldly beauty would addle ANY man's brains, your highness!" Mi'i giggled and said,"I like you! You're funny!OW!" Narchi said,"Remember what I said lads! Women are DRAMA, and ye're about to see a BUNCH of drama piled up in here!" For the bedroom, Neblae shouted,"KIBO! I ought to punch you in the face!" Narch flinched,"Oh, boy! Here we go!" --To be continued!--