40.07 Blood of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Author:Roger Zelazny
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780380896363
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1986-01-01T10:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Vinta had been disinclined to continue at questions and answers, and I hadn't wanted her bothering Luke any more.I persuaded her to leave and let us rest. I sacked out on the comfortable chair, with my feet propped on the other one.I was hoping to continue my conversation with Luke in private. I remember chuckling right before I fell asleep as I tried to decide which of them I distrusted less.

I stretched several times then and made my way to the bathroom.Half an ablution later I heard Luke cough and then whisper my name.

"Need some water?" I asked while I was doing it.

Bring some."

I threw the towel over my shoulder and took him a drink.

"Is she still around?" he asked me.

"No."

"Give me the glass and go check the hall, will you? I'll manage."

I kept it quiet as I eased the door open.I stepped out into the hall, walked up to the corner. There was no one in sight.

"All clear," I whispered as I came back into the room.

A moment later I heard him in the bathroom.

"Damn! I'd have helped you!" I said.

"Had to see whether I could negotiate," he added, lowering himself to the edge of the bed.He put his hand against his rib cage and panted. "Shit! That smarts!"

"Let me help you lie back."

Listen, don't let her know I can do even that much."

"Take it easy now.Rest."

"I want to tell you as much as I can before she comes busting back in here," he said, "and she will, too-believe me."

"You know that for a fact?"

She's not human, and she's more attuned to both of us than any blue stone ever was.I don't understand your style of magic, but I've got my own and I know what it tells me. It was your question about who she was that got me to working on the problem, though.Have you figured her out yet?"

"Not completely, no."

"Well, I know she can switch bodies like changing clothes-and she can travel through Shadow."

"Do the names Meg Devlin or George Hansen mean anything to you?" I asked.

Should they?"

But she was both of them, I'm sure."

I'd left out Dan Martinez, not because he'd shot it out with Luke and telling Luke would raise his distrust of her even further, but because I didn't want him to know that I was aware of the New Mexico guerrilla operation-and I could see that it might lead in that direction.

"She was also Gail Lampron."

"Your old girlfriend, back in school?" I said.

I thought there was something familiar about her immediately.But it didn't hit me till later. She has all of Gail's little mannerisms-the way she turns her head, the way she uses her hands and eyes when she's talking.Then she mentioned two events to which there had only been a single common witness-Gail."

"It sounds as if she wanted you to know."

"I believe she did," he agreed.

"Why didn't she just come out and say it then, I wonder?"

There's something could be a spell on her, only it's hard to judge, her not being human and all.

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