***Recommending dispersal tactics, Johnny…loose config…this should allow us unhindered access without obvious resistance or setting off any alarms***

  “Good idea,” Winger decided. It was one of many advantages of being an angel. You could easily disperse yourself into a cloud of smoke and drift like dust without triggering any reaction…assuming the place was accustomed to having such apparitions floating about. To Johnny Winger, clouds and knots of nanobotic forms were as common about the monastery as the ever-present incense candles.

  After drifting about for an hour, homing on the strong deco wake signals detected by Doc II, they came at last to a massive vault-like structure on the lowest level.

  “This must be where we were before, Doc,” Winger decided. It was clear from the shimmer of the vault surface that a nanobotic barrier was in place. “Looks like we’ve got a reception committee to deal with.”