![]() ![]() ![]() That's why they had left their observatory and come to New Rome today: The stars were right for Malacar Ahasherat, the Swarm Queen, to break free of her prison in the Florida swamps, and the Society had to be warned. They were researchers for the Septemberists, both of them, and they spent their days with their noses in old books and their nights with their eyes glued to telescopes, looking for signs that the Mangleborn might be breaking out of their underground prisons. "And I've asked you before not to use that awful slang."Īrchie sighed. "We don't talk about the Society in public, Archie. "I'll bet the Septemberist Society is under the big statue of Hiawatha in New Rome Harbor," he told his parents as they wove their way through the crowd down to the submarine docks. ![]() His mother and father either didn't know where it was, or they wouldn't tell him. It might turn right around from the Hudson River Submarine Landing in Jersey and head back to Hackensack territory. Mannahatta? Staten Island? Breucklen? Queens County? For all he knew, the submarine they took to the group's secret headquarters didn't go to any of New Rome's boroughs at all. Twelve-year-old Archie Dent had been there a dozen times before and still he had no idea where it was. The secret entrance to the headquarters of the Septemberist Society could only be reached by submarine. ![]()
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