Lilith: A Snake in the Grass by Jack L. Chalker

Author:Jack L. Chalker [Chalker, Jack L.]
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Published: 2002-01-22T07:00:00+00:00

Now, Kira, he breathed.> What happened was almost anticlimactic. No crackle of lightning, no rumblings or anything like that. It was just that . . . well . . .

I heard a click and then a sound like falling plaster or dirt dislodged over the side of a precipice. Just a little sound—but there was now a cube of roughly fifty centimeters cut into the wafl, with a heap of fine powder inside.

Dr. Pohn went over and brushed the powder out and gestured for me to approach. I was a little nervous I about getting in the way of that kind of power, but I I did examine the hollow the girl had created at Pohn's

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direction. It was perfectly smooth, very regular, with no sign of how it had been formed.

Just proof that the potential is in all of us, he told me. More, I think, in women than in men for some reason. At least the women seem stronger in thek powers, although more erratic. I have girls in there who could possibly reduce this castle to dust if properly stimulated and motivated.

It would seem to me that the Boss and his superiors might find you something of a threat, Doctor, I noted.

He laughed and shook his head from side to side. Oh, no. I'm quite strong, quite powerful, but I have no taste for knighthood. It would end my work, really., I'm no risk because they all know of my lack of ambition with regard to their jobs. In fact, they encourage my work because it might help them. Master Artur, for example, is quite interested in one of the girls, who, we think, might well be able to freeze an attacking army, perhaps even dissolve it.

We walked back to the morgue as we talked, the zombielike Kira following obediently.

Which one? I asked, feeling a little queasy.

That one, he replied, pointing, as I suspected, directly at Ti.

I was becoming pretty good at locating the secret passages. Oh, I'll admit I didn't try the ones they'd guard and booby-trap, the ones leading to Sir Tiel's quarters, but the rest were more than handy. You could almost live inside the small passages and corridors in the walls, although you'd have trouble avoiding the others who used them regularly—some on business (such as spying) and some just for fun, such as voyeurism. Everybody knew about them, of course, but few really thought much about them.

My lessons started about a week after I arrived at the Castle, and they were what I was most interested in. My tutor was Vola Tighe, sister of the elderly matron who'd admitted me in the first place. Unlike her sister, though, Vola was far more serious and businesslike and seemed to have a better idea of herself and her duties. Still, outwardly they might have been twins and may well have been.

The key is chemical stimuli, as you know, she told me. The trick is to be enough in

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