High Wizardry by Diane Duane

Author:Diane Duane [Duane, Diane]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fantasy, Epic, General, Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Computers, Non-Classifiable, Action & Adventure, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure - General, Children's Books - Young Adult
ISBN: 9780440406808
Publisher: Dell Pub.
Published: 2010-01-21T16:01:33+00:00

Nita popped out into a canopy of starlit darkness and a carpet of dim light, breathing very hard. Earth’s gravity well was no joke: pushing her own mass and enough air to breathe for a while up out of that heavy pull was a problem. She walked over to a boulder, dusted it off, and sat down, panting, to admire the view while she waited for Kit.

The “usual place” where they met was, of course, the Moon. Nita liked it there; working, and thinking, were always easy there, in the great silence that no voices but astronauts’ and wizards’ had broken since the Moon’s dust was made. This particular spot, high in the lunar Caucasus mountain chain, was a favorite of Kit’s-a flat-topped peak in a wild, dangerous country of jagged gray-white alps, cratered and pocked by millennia of meteoric bombardment. Piles of rocktumble lay here and there, choking the steep valleys where the sheer heat and cold of the lunar days had been enough to flake solid rock away from itself in great glassy or pumicey chunks. Off to one side, the pallid rim of the little crater Calippus scraped razor-sharp against the sky, and over it hung the Earth.

The Moon was at first quarter, so the Earth was at third, a blinding half-world: blazing blue-green, almost painful to look at until the eyes got used to it. It shed a cool faint blue-white light over everything. A curl of white stormweather lay over the northwestern Pacific, and there vanished; for down the middle of it the terminator ran, the edge of night, creeping ever so slowly toward the west. Most of North America lay in the darkness, and city lights lay golden in faint glittering splashes and spatters with brighter sparkling Patches under the Great Lakes and on the California coast.

Nita shrugged out of her knapsack, opened it and rechecked the contents. It was a good assortment: varied enough to handle several different classes of spell, specific enough to those classes to let her save some power for herself.

She pulled her manual out and started paging through it for the “tracker” spell that she and Kit would need when he got here. It was actually a variant of the one he had threatened to put on Dairine in the city: this one hunted for the characteristic charged “string residue” left in space by the passage of a wizard’s transit spell through it. Nita’s specialty was astronomy, so she had been shocked to find that “empty” space wasn’t actually empty, and even the hardest vacuum had in it what physicists called “strings,” lines of potential force that have nothing to do with any of the forces physicists understand. Wizards, of course, could use them: much of what passes for telekinesis turns out in fact to be string manipulation. The tracker spell made most elegant use of it. And once we find her, Nita thought, I’m gonna tie a few of those strings around her neck...

But it didn’t do to start a wizardry in such a mood.

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