Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 05 - The Warlock Wandering by Stasheff Christopher

Author:Stasheff, Christopher
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2003-02-03T00:27:09+00:00

Yorick exhaled sharply. "Yes. Everyday occurrence.

Right."

Gwen nodded, satisfied. "Now we fall downward."

Across the aisle, Chomoi stared, aghast. "What are they?"

"A witch and a warlock," Yorick informed her. "But that's just the local term, where they come from."

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"This isn't really magic?" Chomoi said hopefully.

Yorick shook his head. "Just psionics. These are two very high-powered espers."

Chomoi sat back, going limp. "I'm glad to hear that's all it is."

"Right." Yorick's smile soured. "It's so much less scary when you can give it a name, isn't it?"

"The pirate is gone now," Gwen informed them.

"Huh?" Yorick looked up and saw a clear sky. "Well.

Guess once he saw he'd shot off our cabin, he figured we were dead."

"He had every right to," Chomoi said devoutly.

"Well." Yorick laced his fingers across his midriff and settled back into his acceleration couch. "Might as well relax and enjoy the ride."

"It may be rough," Gwen warned.

'"S okay! That's just fine. Lady Gallowglass!" Yorick held up a palm. "No matter how you slice it, it's going to be a hell of a lot better than I thought it was."

Actually, it was rather boring from that point^on. Gwen was very good at slowing them down, but she had a lot of speed to kill, so it did take a little while. Every now and then, things did begin to get a little too warm, and Gwen 752

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had to frown in deep concentration until they cooled off.

Yorick did some exploring, and found a couple of emergency oxygen generators, but even so. Rod was worried that he might have to try to precipitate the carbon out of the carbon dioxide in the air, and he wasn't exactly burning to have black dust all over the glowing brocade of his new doublet.

At one point. Rod said, "Dear... the planet... is turning

... under us. Match... velocities..."

"That means matching the spin of the planet," Yorick explained. "'Velocity' is how fast something's going in any given direction. Just make sure we're moving at the same speed as the world's surface."

"How am I to do that?" Gwen asked.

"Find some landmark," Yorick explained. He glanced at file:///F|/rah/Christopher%20Stasheff/Stasheff...%203%20-%20The%20Warlock%20Wandering%20(1).txt (125 of 247) [2/3/03 12:28:03 AM]

the viewscreen. "Can't do much with that, the power cut off as soon as we broke away from the ship. All we've got is a little emergency power for lights, air, and heat, nothing left over for sight-seeing."

Gwen frowned at the screen, and it burst into life. A landscape reeled across it, blurred by speed, obscured by darkness.

Yorick stared. "How did you do that?" Then he squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head. "Never mind—I don't think I want to know. But try to pick out some big landmark, Lady Gallowglass, and slow us down until it stays put in the middle of the screen."

The landscape began to slow. Moonlight outlined ridges that were chains of hills, showing a groove that must have been a valley.

In its center, pricks of light glittered.

"Civilization!" Chomoi cried. "That's gotta be a

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