Previously
in Future Prefect... after leaving Bill to consult with the Dustbins
of Wisdom in private, our heroes went upstairs to discuss what to
do. Irritatingly, they were then arrested by agents of the Internal
Security Agency. In the basement, Bill accepted the assistance of
the Dustbins of Wisdom in escaping a similar fate. Climbing into the
leftmost of the three Dustbins, he found himself transported to the
Black Forest in Germany where, he is assured, he can begin to fulfil
his destiny. |
Bill
walked forwards, kicking his way through undergrowth thicker, greener
and more lush than anything he had seen in America. Clearly h2g2
had many good things going for it, if it was clean enough to produce
plantlife like that, and trees so large. Bill wouldn't have thought
that possible from his life in America. The world was too polluted,
beyond repair. Or so he had thought.
Up
ahead, something glimmered through the trees, a flash of white revealed
briefly by the wind moving leaves. Bill pressed on with renewed
speed. This might be where he was supposed to go. Abruptly, he found
himself at the edge of the trees, facing a clearing. Perhaps a hundred
metres of gently sloped grass rose uninterrupted to the base of
a large white wall which surrounded some sort of large building.
Towers rose from within the walls, and he could hear the sounds
of people talking and chanting.
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