I rechecked the results and came to the same conclusion. The language on the boxes was that of the people of a country near our world’s equator.
It was a tropical paradise whose indigenous people preferred to be left alone by more civilized nations. Their chief exports were sugar and what the words on the box meant in their language.
The strange words on the boxes meant fresh lemons.
Why would there be boxes of lemons stored deep underground beneath the Association Complex, and who put them there?
And what about the ancient gravestones set into the floor in the room where the lemons were stored?
I hadn’t mentioned the boxes or the gravestones to Cassidy or Alex. I wanted to do this research first. Now, I wondered if it was a coincidence that they suddenly wanted to depart on a tropica
