Crown of Horns by Alex Sapegin

Author:Alex Sapegin [Sapegin, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Litworld Ltd.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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…He woke up and felt that his head was lying on something soft and springy at the same time. With difficulty focusing his vision, Andy looked up from the “pillow,” which turned out to be the ruler’s left breast. His right cheek bore the mark of the concentric circles of Asha’s nipple. A hammer pounded in his head. He looked at the Miur, curled up like a little kitten, her mysterious feline eyes gazing back at him, and grabbed his temples….

The cunning cat had calculated all the options, not forgetting to include in the layout of the future conversation some of the most incredible possibilities, including the fusion of minds. Actually, to say she hadn’t forgotten about it is an understatement. The Miur planned to gradually bring the conversation to the slippery topic of unification. His statement about Jagirra was simply incredible; the Great Mother did not believe the dragon’s words. She was afraid of making a mistake. In three thousand years, Jagirra had twice re-emerged out of nowhere, and once, her daughter did too. Each time, the pretenders presented irrefutable evidence of their origin, but all the empresses turned out to be agents of the secret intelligence service. Hazgar adored fishing around, finding out which clans were beginning to intrigue against him, and if he found anyone, they disappeared not only from the political scene. There hadn’t yet been any stories about Jagirra having a son, or anyone having a family tattoo. The shkas did not emphasize his origin, which was strange at the least and did not match the modus operandi of the empire’s secret services. A different approach, but still, doubts remained. Penetrating into the mind was just dotting the “I.” The stakes were too high not to. Tricky cat! The desire to have your fish and eat it too doesn’t always come true. The dots on the “I” and other punctuation marks were a surprise to you. Is it tough getting caught in the trap of your own disbelief?

Andy looked at the unconscious cat and squeezed his fists, gritting his teeth. He ought to strangle her. How his head ached! After all, she knew very well that unification of the minds of two different kinds of beings resulted in stunning pain, the pointy-eared jerk. On Ilanta, human and elf mages never merged with dwarfs. Silicone organisms were incompatible with humans. They had different brain structures and active magical zones. With Miur, the situation looked different. They had the same protein structure, but humans and Miur were distinguished by different biochemical processes taking place in the body, customs, social order, moral norms, etc. In other words, he and Asha were computers with different operating systems, and combining them caused irritation of nerve endings and pain.

Two fools, luring each other into traps like clinically certifiable paranoiacs. In the end, they both won and lost.

Asha was perfectly prepared, blocking her middle and deep layers of memory in advance, setting her mind’s defense against breaking. At the confluence, the closed zones looked like dark patches.

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