![]() ![]() The cyborg trio poses as Doctor Ruy Lopez, his daughter Rosa (the irrepressible Mendoza, now grown), and her duenna, Doña Marguerita Sir Walter's hospitality and discretion are bought for the promise of restored youth. ![]() (Kage Baker knows her Shakespeare: Sir Walter is the descendant of Alexander Iden, loyal subject of Henry IV, who slew the hungry rebel Jack Cade in that very garden in Kent.) Their intent is to gather herb samples from the garden of Sir Walter Iden, a foolish though generous country squire. ![]() The wisecracking, mildly misanthropic Mendoza wants nothing to do with historical humans, but her first assignment is to travel to England in 1553-uncomfortably close to those damn Inquisitors-with Joseph and Nefer, two other Company operatives. In return, all she has to do is travel through time on a series of assignments for the Company and collect endangered botanical specimens. What 5-year-old Mendoza, on the brink of being tortured as a Jew, is totally unprepared for is to be rescued by the Company-the ultimate bureaucracy of the 24th century-and made immortal. In 16th-century Spain, everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition, as they have a well-known tendency to cart people off to their dungeons on trumped-up charges. ![]()
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