Operation Time Search by Andre Norton

Author:Andre Norton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Body, Magic, Mythical Civilizations, Science Fiction, Atlantis (Legendary place), Juvenile Fiction, General, Fantasy, &WORKING, Adventure, Mind & Spirit, Atlantis, Fiction, Time travel
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 2010-01-22T07:51:07+00:00

10

“—SYDYK of Uighur, of the courtyard of the Lady Ma-Lin, being son to her marshal, one U-Val. In your fifteenth year you departed for fleet training, serving under.”

Names, a roll of names, ringing through Ray’s head. The voice droned on and on with details from the life of one Sydyk, and though Ray tried to shut his ears, or his mind, to them, he found that he could not. He was held in thrall by that voice, and what it conveyed to his mind could not be erased either, making him conscious of all the minutiae of Sydyk’s life. At the same time, though he could not open his eyes to see, he was aware of hands on his body, sensations on his skin of wet and cold, strange odors.

“You were taken by Murian guards, but you managed to win free, putting the onus of treachery upon the novice RuGen, saying that he had approached you for passage out of Mu and that you had refused him. The crew of the Cleave Wave will also be mind-set in this story. You will follow these orders. Two hours after you drop anchor off the frontier post of U-MaChal, you must contrive to come to shore alone—follow the curve of the beach north until you reach two pointed rocks standing very tall. There you await the coming of a small boat. He who commands it will say, ‘The east rises,’ and you will reply, ‘The west falls.’ You will enter the boat and do what must be done.”

What—why? He was caught in a net, vainly trying to fight to freedom.

“For a month you will watch and do what has been set upon you. Then, for a space of three days, a ship of the fleet, disguised as a fruit carrier from the south, will be off the harbor of the Five Walled City. She will fly a plague flag to keep off boarders. You must, if you can, reach her before the fourth day. Do you understand?”

Though he did not, Ray felt his head move in an answering nod.

“You are Sydyk out of Uighur!”

Ray opened his eyes. He was looking into the reflective surface of a mirror at a man with a brown-yellow skin and black hair falling in greasy locks about a face that, by some art, was older and coarser than his own.

“Your clothing.”

A hand appeared at one side of the mirror and indicated a bundle of stuffs waiting on a stool. He put on the rough cloth undertunic and a leather jerkin and kilt, dyed blue but stained with salt and smelling of sweat and the sea. Instead of sandals, there were sea boots of hide with a small fringe of natural hair left about their tops. His fingernails were rough and had heavy deposits of black under them. Grime lines were deep-etched in the skin of his hands. Where that small tattoo was on his wrist, a broad band of copper braceleted the skin. There was a plain sword belt of black leather and a bronze helmet without a crest.

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