Nothing but Blue Skies by Tom Holt

Author:Tom Holt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Humour, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781841490588
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

'You know,' Neville sighed, 'with a sense of humour like yours, I'm surprised you didn't make your career in light entertainment rather than weather. There's all sorts of things you could have done in light entertainment - changed fuses, held things for people, made the tea. No, I don't mean through the wall, I mean in this general direction. I suggest that we go back down the corridor till we find a turning that goes that way, and follow it. All right?'

As Gordon had suspected all along, the building was playing games with them. When they'd been coming up the corridor, there had been scores of turnings off, leading in every conceivable direction. Now that they were heading back, the corridor ran straight as a Roman road without any turnings whatsoever. How the building managed to do this, Gordon could only speculate. The likeliest explanation was that it was a living, breathing creature. That was an intriguing concept in itself; maybe it had started off the size of a garden shed and grown, with the help of regular watering and tanker-loads of Baby Bio, into the best-of-show-winning monstrosity they were now trapped inside. If so, the potential of the discovery was staggering; so much so that Gordon promised himself that if ever he got out of this mess he'd pack in broadcasting, buy a strip of land somewhere and plant a crop of late-flowering maisonettes.

'This one'll do,' Neville said, jerking him out of his dreams of avarice and pointing down a spur leading off the main corridor. 'Keep your eyes open for one going sharp left.'

'What? Oh, yes, will do.' A thought occurred to him, and he slowed down. 'Neville,' he said, 'I just want to make the point that I'm only letting you lead the way because nobody, not even you, could make a worse mess of it than I've been doing. It's absolutely not because I really believe you've actually got a third eye. Is that clear?'

Neville sighed. 'As crystal. Secretly, though, I know you believe. You just can't face admitting it to yourself. Actually,' he went on, 'faith is an amazingly broad, flexible thing. For instance there's a small religious community somewhere in North Wales that believes that when we die, we'll be reunited on the other side with all the used paper hankies we've discarded over the years. If they can believe something like that,

it's not going to kill you to believe in something as mild and inoffensive as a dragon. Hell's teeth, people have been believing in them for thousands of years; it's only this last century or so we've come over all snotty and decided there couldn't possibly be such thing... Hello.' He stopped dead in his tracks. 'What's this?'

'It's a fire door,' Gordon said. 'What about it?'

'Yes, but what's it doing here? We've been yomping down these damned corridors for hours, and this is the first fire door we've seen.' He took a step back and looked the door over carefully. 'It's like the old riddle,' he said.

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