High Couch of Silistra: Returning Creation by Janet Morris

Author:Janet Morris [Morris, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction; American
ISBN: 9780553145328
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1980-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

me intently from beneath his dark hair. "He is much taken with Silistra. He would make himself as Silistran as he can. That can serve you to your advantage if you play him right. He is, however," I cautioned, "a M'ksakkan, and profit and quota are to them as chaldra is to us. He will have difficulty, living as he wishes, with a foot in both worlds. Eventually, there will come a situation in which the needs of Arlet and those of the M'sakkan Bipedal Federate are in conflict. I would not trust him until that time has come and gone. But he thinks himself sincere, and thusly may be used, perhaps, to advantage by one subtle enough in his approach. Re-member, a Liaison with Slayer's chaldra is a bridge between worlds, a bridge that has never been trod."

"And a bridge provides access from both sides of the abyss it spans, eh?"

"Such is the nature of a bridge," I affirmed.

"Could you read this Fressa for me, and tell me if she is innocent of whatever Celendra tried to cover?"

"I do not know. I will try." I closed my eyes and got her easily.

"She did not service him. He acted very strangely with her, and spilled his seed on her breasts and spoke to her in an unknown tongue. She should have re-ported it right away. It bothers her, or I would not be getting such detail."

"But she did nothing to him?"

"Her guilt is of not calling a physician as soon as he left her, for he seemed to her deranged. It is no great-er than that."

Sereth stabbed a parr strip, still bubbly with juice, with the dagger. Such niceties as cutlery were not favored by the

Slayers. The apprentice had brought us no utensils with our meal. I picked up a strip in my fingers. Sereth, grinning, reached back, and, the chair tilted back on two legs, took a gold-hilted knife from its sheath on the wall and handed it to me.

"How will this affect our journey to the Falls of Santha?" I asked him, spearing a strip of parr.

"I have to see. Since the physicians have already given their opinion, then the papers are most likely done. Today is

Detarsa second first, and the rest of the Seven will not be in Arlet until second seventh. If the arrangements for funeral and disposition can be made within that time, I will have to be here. If they take longer, then I may be able to leave by the fifth. I will have to check with the writer before I go to the Day-Keepers; then I will know better. I must see how many blanks are filled, and how many are still open. A man cannot go to rest in Arlet with unfilled blanks on his papers." Sereth seemed unfond of this part of his job.

"I am ready to leave when you are," I said, draining my rana bowl. It had gone from steaming to tepid while we talked. I

stared into the dark, bitter sediment.

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