![]() ![]() Murray's instinct was ringing a quiet but persistent bell. He got tight on the bumper again, this time punching the horn. ![]() Twilly stomped the accelerator and the station wagon shot forward. The cobalt Lexus began to pull away, and as it did a can of Sprite flew out the window and bounced into the scrub. It's all a game to you, she lashed out.it's not a game to me. The schism, defying her every idea about the way the world was. For years after she'd remembered that moment, confronted with a physical representation of something her mind revolted at. She'd been twelve, thirteen at most, and completely spooked by the idea of this emptiness echoing emptiness, back and forth, back and forth, until they reached the limits of light. It was a distress she'd not felt since childhood when somebody (she'd forgotten who) had taught her the trick of looking at infinity by putting two mirrors face to face, each staring into the other's reflection. The world she'd assumed all her life to be complete and comprehensible was here undone utterly. And step by step she achieved her goal, coming close enough to the hole to see down its throat. Her body, already bruised and battered within an inch of its Lazarite life, was barely equal to the challenge. ![]() The effect got stronger the closer to the hole she went. Space itself was knotted up, its convolutions pliable enough to be pressed through but only with the greatest difficulty. The air, and the minute particles of dust and dirt it carried, was hauled out of true. It wasn't simply the visible world that was twisted and dragged towards the hole, she realized so was the invisible. But the abundant and glamorous present was perched on the crumbling edge of the future, and each second of our wait had become an agony. Janos and I had each been given a palace for quarters and luxuries aplenty to soothe time's passage. Our men were well cared for, enjoying an easy life at a villa near the main docks, where there were many entertainments and awe-stricken women to beguile them. Adding to Janos' woes, Prince Raveline had done nothing at all beyond that first gesture, while Domas had made good on at least part of what he had promised. Janos was particularly worried, for he held theless majestic promise of a prince, and his equally numerous messages to Raveline had also gone unanswered. I had not heard from Beemus about thattime the king had promised, and there had been no answers from the palace to my many queries. Two weeks after King Domas had given his promise, we were still gnawing on that doubtful coin to test its worth. But it would probably bore you to tears.' But what's he been doing right?Ī story?' She sat up a little straighten in her chair. George himself thought, Yulian? Yes, of course it is. As George stopped the car, Helen's jaw fell open a little. At first they very nearly failed to notice Georgina, for she was over-shadowed by her son. Arriving at the house and turning off the Paignton road into its grounds, the party in the car found Georgina and Yulian waiting for them on the gravel drive. ![]()
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