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failing to meet minds with a mate, not wanting to Corneph insisting, pulling him into the suffocation of the full quarm flight disaster, and a peculiar alien, a human, a worthy creature but prone to excitability file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruis...Star%20Rigger%2002%20-%2 0Star%20Rigger's%20Way.html (148 of 175)20-2-2006 21:43:31 STAR RIGGER S WAY by Jeffrey Carver & remembering further& first love with a woman who left on a ship and never returned, and was never Page 106 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html a friend humiliation outside the rigger community, longings unfulfilled within friendship with Janofer, and then Skan and Legroeder, and flying Lady Brillig loss a long and uncertain quest to regain a security never possessed & memories flickering up as though in an invisible cyclone; but he could see where they were going, flying in a great golden stream of lost secrets to the glassfish. Impulsively he stepped with a part of his mind into the eye of the cyclone and leaped with one of the memories with Lady Brillig and rode it in an arc across space to the glassfish. And he entered the glassfish s mind. The gestalt of all their minds. They call themselves Mu-Laan , he discovered. He saw the Mu-Laan inspecting this small creature which dared, with smaller creatures inside it, to enter their realm, their dream-turbulent home in the world of ever-shifting realities. It was a peculiar realm, this world of the Mu-Laan. The gestalt was of more than the three; there were other minds at work, linking and joining and crossing over incredible distances, meaningless distances to form the merged identity, the gestalt. Distance meant nothing; it was an artifact of a limited mind. He huddled, terrified of losing himself in the gestalt. But he peered out through the mind of the Mu-Laan, and he saw over fabulous distances, scenes as far away as the other galaxies, as near as the internal organs of the glassfish. He viewed through other eyes, he touched other riggers, human and otherwise; he glimpsed creatures which dwelled in the glassfish universe, in the Flux. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruis...Star%20Rigger%2002%20-%2 0Star%20Rigger's%20Way.html (149 of 175)20-2-2006 21:43:31 STAR RIGGER S WAY by Jeffrey Carver Perhaps he could focus: he glimpsed the Hurricane Flume through the eyes of a rigger passing in a ship. No memory this it was a vision different from his, a vision of another being. And here: the Wall of the Barrier Nebula, from outside, and just at the edge of the Flux. A rigger somewhere in Golen space, diving deeper. Thoughts and feelings of riggers fluttered across his senses. The touch of a pirate ship, a raider and the paranoia and fear of the riggers who drove her. Legroeder! Had he touched Legroeder? The sense fluttered away before he could isolate it from the blur. But he understood now what had happened to Legroeder; he had caught that in the flurry. Legroeder had been captured and impressed by the raiders, as he had guessed. And, he felt sadly, Legroeder would never be seen free and alive again by his old friends. He was sure of the fact, though he did not know how he knew. The pain made his resolve waver, and for a moment he was aware of his own frailty here; he was split in two minds, and he looked out of Spillix at the glassfish even as he looked out of the Mu-Laan mind at the Flux universe. But if he could see so far and so clearly could he touch Janofer and Skan in the nets of their ships? Mind whirling, he squinted and focused. Page 107 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html Stratified mists. Janofer looked at him curiously across the lightyears, the meaningless lightyears which did not even exist in the Flux. She looked at him but did not see him. She flew in the net of a ship where? in Golen space, flying speedily back toward protected territory. His astonishment was so great that it erupted joyfully out of his breast and echoed across the distances. And at the sound of joy ringing through space, Janofer widened her eyes; and she saw him and cried out in recognition. Hope and amazement and bewilderment and loving desperation reverberated through the void between them. A part of the feeling was his and a part of it Janofer s, and he felt himself joined to her by tears and wordless emotions. Janofer! How could he call to her, speak to her? file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruis...Star%20Rigger%2002%20-%2 0Star%20Rigger's%20Way.html (150 of 175)20-2-2006 21:43:31 STAR RIGGER S WAY by Jeffrey Carver Janofer! Was it possible, after searching for so long? She tossed her head against space. Her eyes gazed at him with delight and wonder, through the shimmering reality of the Mu-Laan vision. How could he know that she was real? He had spoken and flown with so many Janofers, so very many of her. Janofers who were constructs of memory and fantasy, Janofers who had touched him and cared for him and tried to help him love another, Janofers who had saved him in the net. Janofers who had vanished when his fantasy-sequences had ended. There should be a difference. The Mu-Laan consciousness grew restless around him. But the glassfish seemed gruffly interested in the mental knot he was struggling with and so far they were refraining from aggression. (But Cephean, the part of him still on Spillix saw, was stirring with belligerent outrage.) Janofer, what should I do? he cried out in desperation. And he wondered why he had cried out so. Gev it s you! Yes! Janofer! How are you reaching me? [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |