Burroughs, Edgar Rice Tarzan 02 The Return of Tarzan
Brian Daley Coramonde 02 The Starfollowers of Coramonde v4.1 (htm)
Saga rodu Michorowskich 02 CĂłrka Michorowskich RohĂłczanka Anna
H Beam Piper Fuzzy 02 Fuzzy Sapiens v2.0 (lit)
Angelique Anjou Chameleon (pdf)
4 Dead to the World
Desiree Holt Just Say Yes (pdf)
Higgins Jack Gra dla bohaterów
Balzac, Honore de Der Landarzt
Esther Mitchell The Underground Series 01 Tamia
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
"The other village? Why there?"
"Targeted the fusion plant, I think. They are energy seekers, as you may
recall."
I scrambled to my feet. "Have you alerted any of the others?"
"Most everyone."
"Now what?"
"I was hoping you'd have an idea."
The problem was that I didn't. Except one that I didn't like.
"You're not going... ?" asked Wryan with a look at my face.
"Anyone else better suited?"
We both knew the answer to that one.
So I went and pulled on full gauntlets, diving suit, and went hunting for
Frost Giants.
Finding the track from the village wasn't hard; it was almost bluish and
jagged in the undertime. Nor was dropping backtime to see what had happened
earlier in the day difficult, not that I could break out, but I could watch a
hazy view.
Even from undertime, I shivered as the blocky figure sucked heat and energy
from the fusion plant and the sur-
rounding cottages. Frost Giant a misnomer in some ways. The figure I saw was
oblong, with two legs, and what appeared to be four wide and stubby arms. It
wore no apparent clothing, except a bluish energy shimmer, and while it had a
"head" of sorts, that was more a protrusion than a head resting upon a neck.
It was cold, so cold that I felt it was sucking energy from the undertime as
well.
Then it was gone, leaving a bright blue and jagged time-trail that seemed both
sideways and backtime simultane-
ously.
I followed, although the effort was like ricocheting through a rock canyon on
a high-speed steamer that bounced off every wall. Each "bounce" gave me a
headache.
When the bouncing stopped, I was still undertime in the Queryan solar system.
That was easy to figure because I
couldn't break out from the undertime. The planet was Thoses, the one out
beyond Query. Rumor had it that the First
Empire had put a base there.
Someone had. Once. But the Frost Giants had frozen it solid, too.
From the undertime, all I could see was the energy drain and the collapse of
empty domes and plastics into dust.
Sure, it had happened a millennia or more before I was born, but watching it
happen and being unable to do anything about it was unnerving.
Page 138
ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html
As I shivered in the undertime, I worried. I worried a lot. The Frost Giants
didn't seem all that bright, but more like some sort of cosmic energy grazer.
And the trail from Query to Thoses had been without stops, as if they passed
from solar system to solar system and grazed on all the artificial and natural
heat and energy they could reach within their time range.
Another bright blue jagged trail, this one foretime, toward Mithrada.
I dropped away and headed back to the divers' village.
The problem was simple, and nearly impossible. Unless we could either find a
Frost Giant in real time, or in another time outside the Queryan system, we
couldn't even try to attack it. I needed to talk to Wryan, to design some sort
of tracking plan or strategy.
Execution I could handle, but not long-range planning. Not well.
LVI.
"Out of my way, Sammis." Even when he was trying to keep it down, Odin Thor's
voice boomed. He twisted the bosses on the gauntlets to activate the
microcircuitry. When I looked at Odin Thor, I wished I'd never found Ydris.
The gauntlets were too powerful for his ego. Bad enough for me, and I'd
survived his damned ConFed Marines with no illusions of justice.
"They won't work very well in here, Odin Thor." I used both his last names to
irritate him. Dangerous, but he lost most rudiments of logic when he was
angry. "Or too accurately."
"Don't you ever say anything straight out, runt?" All of Colonel-General
August Odin Thor looked ready to assault me. Which would have been fine,
except that was the moment Wryan walked into the travel hall, or what there
was of it we had built.
"Dr. Relom..." Odin Thor was all charm again, bowing low, almost from the
waist. "I was about to depart to see if I
could localize the latest manifestations of the Frost Giants. The ones that
young Sammis here tracked across the cluster."
"You are so determined, Colonel. Do you think that it is necessary? Especially
when we have no effective way of neutralizing individual giants?"
"Madam, we know who the enemy is. That enemy has just destroyed another
timediver's innocent family."
"What will you do once you find all the Frost Giants, Odin Thor?" I
interjected.
"Keep track of them until we can destroy them. They'll be a threat until we
do."
I wanted to know how Odin Thor could keep track of anything when he couldn't
find his way across a room under:
the now. Instead, I asked; "Do you remember what happened the last time?"
Wryan shook her head, but I ignored her. This one wasn't going by logic. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
