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.Ulanda looked at them, or En’talac rather, and didn’t answer.Blanking out.Going, going, gone.He tugged En’talac’s sleeve.“Cassa did this all the time,” he said and was surprised at the jerk of her body, her eyes wide open and staring at him.She came a few feet at least, her face thoughtful.“I keep forgetting she was real.”“Is real.”En’talac kept her eyes on Ulanda.“Is real.”“Whatever,” he grunted then puffed his cheeks out.The morning was gettingbrighter.Blue sky for sure and a single sun coming up fast.How long would they have to wait until Nexus Change crested and she had to dance the Opening?Ulanda was concentrating on breathing, staring at her feet otherwise.Raggedbreaths as though she needed the sound to reassure herself she was alive.Maybeshe did.Despite what he’d said, it made him nervous listening.Hell, Cassa hadmade him nervous too.En’talac kept twitching like she wanted to get in thereagain; the medic back after the rest had been put firmly under control.He shook his head.“No way.Right now, I wouldn’t try to separate out whether she’s Cassa or Ulanda.With Cassa, you push her, she pushes back.Try it again, and she does it harder.Or, sometimes she wouldn’t do anything, and you’d start to thinkmaybe you could get away with it.People got themselves killed making thatmistake.”En’talac hesitated then started pulling things out of the pack, wringing clothlike she wished it was his neck.He gave her a big grin to get a scowl back, then a twist of her mouth that was at least half a smile despite herself.Shadows were visible already; sunrise very soon.They were on a nipple ofsand on top of a small rise.Land fell away on all sides, rising again to mountains on the setting side of the sky, and leveling out the other way, with a narrow band of extra brightness that might be the ocean.Sunrise in that direction, opposite from Lillisim if he remembered rightly.And from the map Ulanda had pulled intothe Net, there should be a delta at the end of a river.Gennady’s flitter had been on a bluff.Would it be here or on Lillisim? Even if it were here, it was too far away to do them any good.Out of the way of the Zimmer crystals interfering with the Opening though.Even sitting at the dinner fighting with Garm, she had beendeep enough in the weave to know.And the thought occurred to him: she had been deep enough in the weave toknow which world out of who knew how many, which world and where on thatworld, they would end up.Possibilities? Realities?Interesting.He scratched his nose and stretched again.Ulanda’s breathing hadsettled down, and he turned his head to see.Not that she’d remember knowing,Laurel Hickeywww.2morrow.bc.caEye of the Ocean – Book 1: Riprobably never had consciously known why she had ordered the flitter away orwhy she’d chosen that place on that world out of all the ones possible.She had gone from standing to looking, turning slowly, having to kick the robewhen it didn’t want to follow.Sand caked in the lace weave, some from Lillisim, amber where it was drying, dark gold where it was wet.More was pale gray oropal when the light hit it directly, darker where it had borrowed the moisture from the robe.Her face was getting more human looking again, from a grimace of irritation atthe drag in the robe, to squinting at the growing light as though she’d like tochew it out too.Fishing for the apple, he took a bite without looking first.Sand ground between his teeth and he spat the piece out.The next piece didn’t taste much better even though he picked the obvious grains off.The mound they had landed on must look like a child’s pail of sand dumpedwet, he thought as he slid more than walked off.Piled wet, then left to dry and crumble at the edges.The land around them was a waste, rocks and dust, his wetboots muddy after the first step.A few shrubs, gray leafed things, or they just dusty as well.Yellowed grasses.Trees nearer the mountains, purple in thedistance.More than one mountain, layers of them, getting paler the further they got, but all of them smooth topped and worn looking.Clouds rolled skyward inback of them, rose and gray with the dawn.Anything could be out there but hedidn’t see buildings or signs of people.He thought Anga had had a pretty good idea of what world was on the otherend of the overpattern tear -- as the Sector developed, the lines of power, even such as they were here, tended to organize much as planets do out of dust clouds-- but the exact location on the world depended on the interaction of too manyvariables, many of them probably affected by the passage through the tear.Hesupposed he could be grateful they weren’t in a swamp like Kalin where he hadfound her.A few more bites and he was looking at an apple core.From Ri, he decided,not Lillisim.He had bought this type in the markets, Palace and Ri-surface both.Here? He picked the seeds out before letting the rest drop.Laurel Hickeywww.2morrow.bc.caEye of the Ocean – Book 1: RiPart V- 56-The curved outer wall of the room was a single thickness of ceramic scale-tiles, as were the two inward walls that joined to make the ceiling.They had been setto continue the image seen more directly through the hull.The sunlight was gold cut into facets by the embossed tiles, burnished copper in the joins [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Ulanda looked at them, or En’talac rather, and didn’t answer.Blanking out.Going, going, gone.He tugged En’talac’s sleeve.“Cassa did this all the time,” he said and was surprised at the jerk of her body, her eyes wide open and staring at him.She came a few feet at least, her face thoughtful.“I keep forgetting she was real.”“Is real.”En’talac kept her eyes on Ulanda.“Is real.”“Whatever,” he grunted then puffed his cheeks out.The morning was gettingbrighter.Blue sky for sure and a single sun coming up fast.How long would they have to wait until Nexus Change crested and she had to dance the Opening?Ulanda was concentrating on breathing, staring at her feet otherwise.Raggedbreaths as though she needed the sound to reassure herself she was alive.Maybeshe did.Despite what he’d said, it made him nervous listening.Hell, Cassa hadmade him nervous too.En’talac kept twitching like she wanted to get in thereagain; the medic back after the rest had been put firmly under control.He shook his head.“No way.Right now, I wouldn’t try to separate out whether she’s Cassa or Ulanda.With Cassa, you push her, she pushes back.Try it again, and she does it harder.Or, sometimes she wouldn’t do anything, and you’d start to thinkmaybe you could get away with it.People got themselves killed making thatmistake.”En’talac hesitated then started pulling things out of the pack, wringing clothlike she wished it was his neck.He gave her a big grin to get a scowl back, then a twist of her mouth that was at least half a smile despite herself.Shadows were visible already; sunrise very soon.They were on a nipple ofsand on top of a small rise.Land fell away on all sides, rising again to mountains on the setting side of the sky, and leveling out the other way, with a narrow band of extra brightness that might be the ocean.Sunrise in that direction, opposite from Lillisim if he remembered rightly.And from the map Ulanda had pulled intothe Net, there should be a delta at the end of a river.Gennady’s flitter had been on a bluff.Would it be here or on Lillisim? Even if it were here, it was too far away to do them any good.Out of the way of the Zimmer crystals interfering with the Opening though.Even sitting at the dinner fighting with Garm, she had beendeep enough in the weave to know.And the thought occurred to him: she had been deep enough in the weave toknow which world out of who knew how many, which world and where on thatworld, they would end up.Possibilities? Realities?Interesting.He scratched his nose and stretched again.Ulanda’s breathing hadsettled down, and he turned his head to see.Not that she’d remember knowing,Laurel Hickeywww.2morrow.bc.caEye of the Ocean – Book 1: Riprobably never had consciously known why she had ordered the flitter away orwhy she’d chosen that place on that world out of all the ones possible.She had gone from standing to looking, turning slowly, having to kick the robewhen it didn’t want to follow.Sand caked in the lace weave, some from Lillisim, amber where it was drying, dark gold where it was wet.More was pale gray oropal when the light hit it directly, darker where it had borrowed the moisture from the robe.Her face was getting more human looking again, from a grimace of irritation atthe drag in the robe, to squinting at the growing light as though she’d like tochew it out too.Fishing for the apple, he took a bite without looking first.Sand ground between his teeth and he spat the piece out.The next piece didn’t taste much better even though he picked the obvious grains off.The mound they had landed on must look like a child’s pail of sand dumpedwet, he thought as he slid more than walked off.Piled wet, then left to dry and crumble at the edges.The land around them was a waste, rocks and dust, his wetboots muddy after the first step.A few shrubs, gray leafed things, or they just dusty as well.Yellowed grasses.Trees nearer the mountains, purple in thedistance.More than one mountain, layers of them, getting paler the further they got, but all of them smooth topped and worn looking.Clouds rolled skyward inback of them, rose and gray with the dawn.Anything could be out there but hedidn’t see buildings or signs of people.He thought Anga had had a pretty good idea of what world was on the otherend of the overpattern tear -- as the Sector developed, the lines of power, even such as they were here, tended to organize much as planets do out of dust clouds-- but the exact location on the world depended on the interaction of too manyvariables, many of them probably affected by the passage through the tear.Hesupposed he could be grateful they weren’t in a swamp like Kalin where he hadfound her.A few more bites and he was looking at an apple core.From Ri, he decided,not Lillisim.He had bought this type in the markets, Palace and Ri-surface both.Here? He picked the seeds out before letting the rest drop.Laurel Hickeywww.2morrow.bc.caEye of the Ocean – Book 1: RiPart V- 56-The curved outer wall of the room was a single thickness of ceramic scale-tiles, as were the two inward walls that joined to make the ceiling.They had been setto continue the image seen more directly through the hull.The sunlight was gold cut into facets by the embossed tiles, burnished copper in the joins [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]