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Roy Rogers. of being Eduard's teacher. She had never been on Earth and was not part of the underground complex team that had been observing Earth for the past 310 years. She was fascinated by the idea of working with the people of Earth. For her it meant that she would have to learn a great deal about the planet, its history, science, languages, its people and, of course, Eduard Meier. Semjase lived on Erra, the home planet of the Pleiades, where the level of consciousness was quite different from that of Earth, where she would soon be spending so much time. This would pose some problems for her, so she set about her task of preparation slowly. First, she studied the German language that was spoken by Eduard. The information storage systems available to her in the Pleiades had on file the King's German that as spoken on Earth during the 16th and 17th century. This was very similar to the Swiss German that was spoken by Eduard and would allow her to understand his thoughts once she began to monitor them. For the next ten years, she studied the history of Earth and its people over the past several million years so that she could educate Eduard. She would occasionally listen in on his thinking so she would be better prepared to communicate with him when the time came. Throughout all of this time Eduard was unaware that she was listening to this thoughts or that she was studying him. During this time Eduard had taken on the nickname of "Billy," a name he had picked up while watching American movies about Billy the Kid. Very fond of American Westerns, Eduard thought of himself as a cowboy, and thus became "Billy." He wore a cowboy hat and often carried a gun and holster just like his movie heroes, Gene Autry and