Ghosthunt by Jo Clayton

Author:Jo Clayton [Clayton, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780879978235
Publisher: DAW Books
Published: 1983-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

world, riding the ugly fliers even across the oceans to keep the lines of communication unbroken. They didn’t use the local transmitters much, only in emergencies, it was too easy to tap and trace them.

Acthon. We’ve fought, sometimes we’ve wept together. We’ve schemed together, and he’s used me. I have Father’s gameplayer mind more strongly than Acthon, or maybe because I know few of the people I claim so jealously for my own, I could see more clearly how to use them than he could who loves too many of them. Like Metis, his heart could betray him. And I can think into Father’s mind and find counters for his plans. I had a good share in planning those first raids on the treasure trains. They had to change methods each time they attacked because Father guarded against the ones they’d used before. The first time they mashed dirt lily pads and plastered the muck on the rail and let it dry hard. The mono bucked and screeched and shuddered and nearly leaped from the rail. The rebels forced the car open, divided the ingots among them and faded into the bush, no two of them heading in the same direction. They rode purplecows, large horned herdbeasts with mottled purple hide and mild red eyes. They were capable of a surprising turn of speed for a healthy stretch, cantering smoothly on long thin legs. The beasts liked to be scratched behind the warty growths that served as ears, and a mild hopeful attitude toward other life forms, also something of Elf’s talent, a way of binding by affection. How intelligent they were is something Acthon tells me the dwellers of the Wild often speculate about.

I’ve often wondered what it’s like out there in the Wild. Acthon has told me stories of what he’s seen. Their life is hard but they seem to be thriving, enjoying themselves in spite of my father’s patrols. There are so many ways their lives will be made better if Father and my half-brothers are removed. It’s as well I won’t be here, though, I’ve got no place in their lives, not like Acthon, and I’d only remind them of the hateful tejed.

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