Out of This World by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Author:Lawrence Watt-Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ethshar, fantasy, revolution, war, magic
ISBN: 9781434449795
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2012-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Amy found herself seated in the exact center of the aircar, between Susan Nguyen and Lieutenant Drummond. The sound of the engines was not the same as any car or plane she had ridden before; it was a steady whine, and it took a few moments before she could adjust to it and block it out.

Drummond was obviously back on familiar ground—so to speak, since they were cruising about eight feet up. He was leaning back, relaxed and smiling. His injured leg was stretched out, the foot under the seat in front of him, while the other leg was bent, knee out to the side. His blond hair was matted with blood, and Amy wondered what had happened to his helmet. He had had a helmet before, she was certain.

Then she realized where she had seen him with his helmet on—stepping out of the Ruthless in her back yard. He had been the first to emerge from the ship.

Despite his wounds, he looked a lot happier now than he had then—and why not? He was on his way home.

Amy wasn’t so lucky. She didn’t know where she was headed.

She hoped it was home.

* * * *

The richness of telepathic contact was so wonderful, after the long drought on Earth and in Shadow’s realm, that Prossie was tempted to just lean back in her seat and let the whine of the aircar’s engine shut out distractions while she soaked in impressions—but she knew she couldn’t do that. She had duties to attend to.

She sent a wordless status report to Carrie, back at Base One—Carrie and the family were always her first concern, of course, whatever her official orders might be. And Carrie would keep the higher-ups in the military hierarchy informed and happy, anyway, so that was all right.

Then there were plans to be made here on Psi Cass Two. They would need a ship, to get everybody back to Base One as soon as possible. That barbarian who called himself Raven, and his bodyguard Stoddard, and the rest of them, she supposed they would all be unspeakably valuable to Imperial Intelligence; Shadow was a top concern, and this was the first time a group of friendly natives from that universe had ever been found.

At least, as far as Prossie knew, it was, and as far as she was concerned that was definitive—if any telepath knew it, now that she was back in normal space and in contact with the family, she would know it, on some deep unconscious level. And if anyone who ever came anywhere near a telepath knew it, or if anyone a telepath contacted from a distance knew it, then the suspicion would leak through.

The telepaths all knew things they didn’t know they knew, things that had registered deep in the back of the mind, far below consciousness—it was one of the more useful side-effects of their talent, really.

It was also one that they tried not to let normals know about. Prossie wasn’t going to tell

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