Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
> protect what?!
> Is this going to be explained in Shadow Dancing?
> have the shadows reopened the facility that you mentioned in
> Messages From Earth and the comics? Is this Mars link important?

Kill telepaths to protect the Machine from them.

jms

(blocked) asks:
> Which book??

The story is "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe.

jms