Deathgate Cycle 2 by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Author:Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman [Weis, Margaret & Hickman, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-05T06:00:00+00:00

He held them out. Aleatha gave the bandages a look of faint disgust.

“A pity. I am frightfully bored.” She leaned up against the door again, studying him languidly. “The man with the band-

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aged hands. Just like that old looney predicted. I wonder if the rest of what he said will come true.” A slight frown marred the smooth, white forehead.

“He really said that?” Haplo asked.

“Said what?”

“About my hands? Predicted … my coming?”

Aleatha shrugged. “Yes, he said it. Along with a lot of other nonsense, about my not being married. Doom and destruction coming. Flying a ship to the stars.

I’m going to be married.” Her lips tightened. “I’ve worked too hard, gone through too much. And I won’t stay in this house any longer than I have to.”

‘ “Why would your father want to go to the stars?” Haplo recalled the object he’d seen from his ship, the twinkling light, sparkling brightly in the sun-drenched sky. He’d only seen one. There were more, apparently. “What does he know about them?”

“… lunar rover! Looked like a bug.” The old man’s voice rose shrill and querulous. “Crawled around and picked up rocks.”

“Know about them!” Aleatha laughed again. Her eyes were warm and soft, dark and mysterious. “He doesn’t know anything about them! No one does. Do you want to kiss me?”

Not particularly. Haplo wanted her to keep talking.

“But you must have some legends about the stars. My people do.”

“Well, of course.” Aleatha moved nearer. “It depends on who is doing the telling. You humans, for example, have the silly notion that they’re cities.

Thaf s why the old man—”

“Cities!”

“Goodness! Don’t bite me! How fierce you look!”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you. My people don’t believe that.”

“Don’t they?”

“No. I mean, “it’s silly,” he said, testing. “Cities couldn’t rotate around the sky like stars.”

“Rotate! Your people must be the ones rotating. Our stars never change position. They come and go, but always in the same place.”

“Come and go?”

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