# michael trellis international traveller businessman and author michael trellis climbs sheer vertical surfaces lizards would find challenging and dangerous if they were foolhardly enough to attempt them ey actively seeks physical challenges experts commonly regard as 'starting from moderately impossible' on a piece of jutting stone no wider then ir left foot michael has been perched one legged like a flamingo for four hours just staring out at the landscape i call up to ir and the dry echo of my words quietly bounces around the canyon wall ey looks down smiles and waves once but says nothing today ey is exploring the ancient ruined quarry in the desert of shak'tari / new namibia / androquine system i am ir bodyguard though with ir current personal specks and antigrav armor field one would have to be a fool to take ir on mind you i am loaded for stage 3 assault ship and am no pushover either dimensionally speaking - that is in terms of psy - ir current hyper folding universal spacetime orientation lattice - ey is precisely 51 arc seconds east of ir last location held 20 days ago on a small watery satellite planet 40 light years from this location no birds in the sky; the sun bakes down in silent waves of at times bewildering heat luckily the gold limestone michael is climbing feels cool michael is currently sporting a centurion mark ii body with advanced survival customizations performed by ir own company cool temple the vast limestone slabs feature huge yet intricate carvings dated to being impossibly old when the earth mother was young they look like a star chart though i am not an expert and tell michael this 'you are not an expert like other ordinary people are not polar bears' ey replies nobody alive in this part of the system knows what the carvings signify or represent only that they aren't carvings but rather were discovered by the ancient alien race as having formed within the same material for some reason a bunch of hypercorporate sellers of very specific hardware are also out here in droves with personal sales booths offering chilled soft drinks - except the sales staff have either not arrived - folded in - or have left in a hurry the drones i sent out twenty minutes ago ping back no lifeforms or threats although that's hardly the point the point is michael ir climbing the aesthetic vibes and the overwhelming stark beauty of the desert planet ambience // republic of bob