Roger Zelazny's the Dawn of Amber by John Gregory Betancourt

Author:John Gregory Betancourt [Betancourt, John Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy fiction, General, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction; American, Fiction, Amber (Imaginary place)
ISBN: 9780743452403
Publisher: I Books
Published: 2002-08-26T23:00:00+00:00

seventh birthday, when Dworkin gave me my first sword—fighting the hell-creatures—childhood games in the streets—faces of people I'd long forgotten—

Slowly, in the air before me, a pattern began to form, full of elegant sweeps and curves, loops and switchbacks, a twisting geometry like something I might have seen long ago in a forgotten dream. Blue sparks drifted around me. Through everything I could just make out Dworkin's form, hands raised as he traced the pattern between us with his fingertips. Where he touched it, it took on a ruby glow.

Still the memories surged, more faces, more battles, more times long gone. Faster and faster they came, all blurred together now, and the whistle in the back of my head became an unimaginable screech of sound that tore through my skull. My eyes burned. My skin crawled. I tried to leap out of that seat, to get away from Dworkin's machine, but I couldn't move my arms or legs. When I opened my mouth to beg Dworkin to stop, the only sound was an agonized scream.

The machine was killing me.

I tried to block it from my thoughts, but it only hummed louder. Squeezing my eyes shut, I felt my thoughts shredding, the memories fleeing, all thoughts now impossible, only pain—pain—pain—

I gasped like a fish out of water, tried to breathe-Blackness fell like a stone.

NINE

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