Deadly Dreams by Andre Norton

Author:Andre Norton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Space Opera, Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781439134443
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2011-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Another dream! Ramsay Kimble sat up in the bed on which sheets were rumpled and tangled as if he had been fighting some hard-pressed battle against it. He was sweating, though the night was rather chilly; his black hair was pasted across his forehead. He looked around him, half amazed to find that he was really here, in his own well-known bedroom—not in that other place that had been so real. Then he snapped on the reading lamp and reached for the notebook and the pen placed to keep the pages open at that point.

“Get it down right when you wake up”—that was what Greg had told him last week. “The longer you wait, the more the details can recede.” Ramsay set the notebook on one knee and began to write.

“Big room,” he scrawled, “machines of some sort—never saw them before. Two men—” He must remember details. “One young—queer clothes—a kind of body suit something like a leotard, close-fitting, all over—color—” Ramsay closed his eyes and tried to center a memory that was already growing fuzzy around the edges. Yes! “Color green—dark green. Over the suit a kind of loose-fitting vest—sleeveless—fell to about the mid-thigh—but not really a vest because it was not open in front. There was a design on the chest—looked like gems and gold—very intricate—” Only he could not remember more than the general impression of that.

“The other man—a little older—body suit, too—gray, and over it some type of jacket—but also gray—no fancy trimming except a small patch of red on the right-hand side of the chest. Both men dark skinned—but not blacks—dark hair and eyes, too—Indian?” He underlined the questioned word. “Man in gray busy with the machines, going from one to another. Feeling of excitement—as if they were very tense about something that was going to happen. Impression that this was another room in the same building or place I dreamed about before. Old man not there, though. What came through most was their feeling—all tense—as if a lot depended on what they were going to do.”

He did not add his last impression as he closed the book and laid it down—the impression that he had an important part in what was going to happen. Of course, that was normal. It had been his dream.

Ramsay snapped off the light, thumped the pillow straight, and lay down. There was a streak of moonlight reaching from the window. He lay watching it with no desire to go back to sleep now.

Perhaps, he was feeding all this from his own imagination because of Greg Howell’s interest. Subconsciously, he wanted to please Greg, maybe make himself important, so he dreamed. But he was sure these were not ordinary dreams. In the first place, they were like fragments of a play. He saw a bit here and a bit there—though the plot eluded him. They seemed to be in a kind of sequence, though, and the reality of the people moving through the scattered bits of action, the background, was certainly stronger than he had ever found in any dream before.

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