In the bar above the clouds, the same three people who had been present during Daneel's test were back, in the same positions, and they were none the wiser regarding the extraordinary experience that they had all been through together.
There was a marked silence because of this, as they were all powerful individuals who could feel that something had happened here, that they could not recall because it must have been purged by the Overseer after the choice had been made by the one who had passed the test.
Often, in these cases, echoes would be present to give indications regarding what they had forgotten, but they were very hard to decipher, and at the moment, none of them were having any luck in finding out just why they had the strange feeling that whatever had happened was different than all the other instances that they had been through when they had been acting in their capacity as those who were the last layer of protection for the Arena.
