Jude followed the Amazoness into yet another cave.<br/>--She said 3015, right?  That's fifteen years in the future.  And yet this place looks like something out of the Stone Age.--<br/>--You'd know, wouldn't you?--<br/>--Are you saying I'm<em>old</em>, Greed?--<br/>While the Sins argued, their host ignored them and began examining the room.  There was a wide variety of food, but (except for drinks) each dish only appeared once on the long table.  But the hulking Amazons told him to sit down...  He grinned, and sat down in one chair near some sliced fruits.  He piled them onto a trencher, then blinked out of existence to reappear (sitting, of course) down near some of the more interesting meats.  Then he vanished and reappeared again, as if he were at a Hatter's tea party.<br/>--Do you even know what that is?--<br/>--Food!--<br/>--Gluttony agrees with what you're doing.  That should be setting of some serious alarms--<br/>Jude continued to eat, taking extremely small portions of most of the dishes.  One turned out to be lightly toasted grubs, but the rest were quite pleasant.  The surprising thing was that the meal included no advanced cooking-- everything on the table was prepared using some combination of a knife, a cookfire, and a pot.  There didn't seem to be many spices, either.  Perhaps the Amazons used a different counting system for years than the assembled earthlings did?  It certainly seemed more likely that this was the past.<br/>He nibbled, and watched the newcomers, especially the people who'd just been herded into the village a few minutes ago.  Interesting bunch-- Orpheus recruiters obviously cast a wide net.  But if they were all as magically competent as Ace, there was quite a bit of power concentrated in this room.<br/>--Where we are, there's<em>always</em>quite a bit of concentrated power.--<br/>Jude finally settled on a single seat, near a pitcher of water, in case one of the other people wanted to try to come over and talk to him.  A few months ago, he would never have drank the water in a place as obviously primitive as this, but now...<br/>--Now you have Us--