Diane Duane_Young Wizards 08 by Wizards at War

Author:Wizards at War
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fantasy Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, General, Fiction, Fantasy, American, Wizards, Imaginary Wars and Battles, Epic
ISBN: 9780152052232
Publisher: Magic Carpet Books
Published: 2005-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

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"I can finish this analysis inside," he said, and got up to fol ow.

They went back to the pup tent together. You're a little quiet today, Dairine said, even for you. What's bothering you?

I've been running analyses on more than the syntax of written Yaldic, if that's what you mean.

Yeah, Dairine said, it is. She sealed the pup tent and sat down on the floor next to Spot. He crawled into her lap.

"You've been real y quiet ever since we got here from your people's world. What's going on?"

"My people instal ed a great deal of new software in me,"

Spot said. "I've been coming to grips with it.

Some of the things they loaded into me were patches for my oracular functions."

"Yeah, I noticed you'd stopped the poetry," Dairine said.

"Frankly, it's kind of a relief. The notes were starting to cramp my style."

"I found them troubling, too," Spot said. "The problem seems to have been that the messages from the Powers simply had too much content embedded in them: I wasn't able to process them correctly, so they were coming out truncated. But with the patches, I'm now able to perceive more clearly exactly what it is the Powers and the manual functions are trying to tel me in terms of cloaked content, the kinds of things that were showing as blacked-out in Nita's manual. As a result, I've been able to analyze the present situation a lot more accurately."

"Sounds like good news to me," Dairine said.

"It would be if the results of the analysis weren't so troubling," Spot said. "We're missing something-both in terms of something we don't know, and something that's not here, something we urgently need. A variable is missing."

"Nita," Dairine said, and let out a breath.

"I think so. Her presence here has become vital. Whatever she went back to Earth to obtain, we've got to have it here very soon, or fail."

Dairine got goose bumps. "And she wasn't sure what she was going back for," Dairine said.

"True. Let's hope that she has it when she arrives; otherwise, al this wil have been for nothing. And-"

Spot went silent.

"And?" Dairine said, hugging him a little closer.

"If she doesn't have whatever it is," Spot said, "then there is no 'and.'"

As Dairine vanished into her pup tent, Kit watched with considerable relief. Dairine could get difficult to deal with when Nita wasn't around to stomp on her. And just where are you ? he thought, glancing at the wal s of the cavern as if Nita might suddenly step through one of them.

Ponch had flopped down beside him and was lying on his back again, though his head was turned so that he was watching Memeki. Kit poked him amiably in the gut. "I thought that was just another ploy to get an extra biscuit," he said under his breath. "I don't often see you giving food away."

She was sad, Ponch said. She was sad before, too. That's why I brought her. None of the others was sad.

They headed into the pup tent together.

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