Incarnations of Immortality 07 - And Eternity by Piers Anthony;Piers A. Jacob

Author:Piers Anthony;Piers A. Jacob
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasty Fiction, Magic, Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780380752867
Publisher: Eos
Published: 1990-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9 - COSMOS

In the morning they caught the Hellevator back to the mortal realm, careful to get off at the right stop. They didn't want to get carried on down to Hell by accident!

They emerged in Mock Hell and made their way out, ignoring the temptations on the way. They took a carpet to the rocketport—and discovered that it had been replaced by a saucerport.

I don't want to get on a saucer! Vita protested. Jolie laughed. "This one isn't going to the Moon! It should be safe enough."

The girl was not completely reassured, but didn't argue. Jolie bought a ticket by charging it to Luna's account, as she had been told to do, and the charge was accepted.

The saucer was really preferable to the rocket, because it had no need for acceleration restraints and its quarters were generous. Indeed, they sat in an easy chair and watched through a genuine window as it took off, lifting from the pavement without a jolt and sailing over the city.

A man came over. "Looking for company?" he inquired in a tone that all three of them recognized.

Jolie turned the body over to Vita. "I'm underage, vacuumhead!" she snapped.

The man moved on. It was evident that he had judged her age correctly, but hadn't been bothered by that detail. However, he did not want the kind of scene she threatened to make.

"But you know, I don't feel underage when I'm with Roque," she remarked.

It is because he respects you as a person, Orlene thought. He disagrees with the letter of the law, feeling that the maturity and discretion of those concerned should be the determinant, rather than an arbitrary figure. Your experience and judgment indicated—

"Oh, pooh! He was just too hot for me to hold back!"

That too, Jolie thought. The girl did not want reason, she wanted passion. But the Judge would never have done it for passion alone.

"Anyway, he knew one of you two would scream if you thought it was wrong," Vita concluded. "And you didn't scream, did you!"

Not loud enough, Orlene agreed, laughing.

The saucer arrived in remarkably short order. Its velocity was deceptive; without inertia, it could travel at very high velocity without seeming to.

They took another carpet to Luna's estate. Luna was there to greet them. "Tomorrow is Saturday," she said. "I will be out for the morning, but I have asked Judge Scott to look in on you. Meanwhile, I am sure you can use a good night's rest, after your extended tour."

They discovered that they were indeed tired, emotionally as much as physically. They greeted the griffins, who seemed for a moment not to recognize them, and settled down.

They were, of course, ravenous; they had seemingly spent two days without food. Actually, only the time they had spent traveling to and from the Hellevator, here in the mortal realm, counted; still, there was a psychological effect.

"One thing I must be sure you understand," Luna said. "You may have been absent longer than you thought."

Vita was in charge at the moment.

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