Pacific Edge: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson

Author:Kim Stanley Robinson [Robinson, Kim Stanley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General
ISBN: 9781466861343
Google: dQhOAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-12-30T11:00:00+00:00

PACIFIC EDGE

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She topped the headwall of the canyon just as the coyotes began their mad song, and so she had just turned up the ridge when she saw the figures above her. Frightened, she dropped behind a bush. They would think she had followed them. All thought of getting Kevin alone and lambasting him disappeared as she crouched to the ground. Finally she dared to move, to peer around the side of the hemispherical sage. And so she saw them embrace and kiss silhouetted figures in the moonlight, like a silver on black nineteenth-century etching entitled Love. Careless of noise she turned and ran back down the ridge, tore down into another canyon.

Ramona broke away from their kiss. What was that Huh

Didn't you hear it And I saw something move, out of the corner of my eye. Back the way we came. Maybe another coyote. It was bigger than that. Hmm.

The shape Kevin had seen in the night, after his first council meeting. He had forgotten it, but now he remembered. And there were mountain lions in the Santa Ana Mountains again, it was said—Kevin had never seen one. It was unlikely one would have come so close to people, though—the areas they liked were higher, up on the back side of Saddleback. Well, he wouldn't mention the possibility, for fear it would spoil the mood.

Do you think it could have been a mountain lion Ramona said matter-of-factly.

Nah. He cleared his throat. Or at least, it isn't very likely.

The coyotes' yipping seemed to assure them that it was, on the contrary, entirely possible.

Let's go down the next canyon over, Ramona suggested. Kevin nodded, and they walked the top of the ridge, winding

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