Chapter 6, Christmas Ribbon Summary

Louis now has his useless information, the location of the puppeteer home world, hundreds of light years from Earth. The party lands on the puppeteer planet, which is filled with tall buildings. They walk through a park to a dome. Nessus leaves Louis, Speaker, and Teela, saying that he must visit see those-who-lead. Before leaving, he gets Speaker to say that if Nessus does not return, Speaker will not go on the mission.

In the dome, a forest is projected on all walls. A puppeteer appears on one of the walls and introduces himself as Chiron. The other wall goes blank, and Chiron uses it to show the crewmembers images of where they're going, a ring built of some new type of material, circling an orbital path around a sun, providing a huge surface living area. The puppeteers passed...