Sun Blind by Gwen Hansen

Author:Gwen Hansen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780449902974
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1988-11-05T06:00:00+00:00

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By the time dinner was over Sheila was nearly asleep on her feet, The sword lessons with Dian and Darian had worn her out completely. She crawled into her bedroll and was asleep as soon as her head touched the ground. So it was with a sense of bewilderment that she found herself wide awake in the middle of the night.

She sat up, trying to figure out what had awakened her. The sky was still black, and beside her, Kara's bedroll was empty. The archer was on watch. The camp was quiet. There were only the sounds of the stream and the soft whickering of the unicorns.

Without quite knowing why, Sheila pulled her blanket around her shoulders cloak-style and got up. She waited a few minutes until her eyes had adjusted to the darkness and then cautiously began to move through the camp—cautiously because she didn't want anyone on watch mistaking her for an enemy.

She walked toward the back of the canyon, away from the sleeping warriors. It wasn't a good night for walking. A steady, dry wind blew clouds across the waxing moon, so that she was able to see where she was going for about a minute, only to be plunged into darkness the next.

The clouds slid across the moon again and she stopped where she was, waiting for the light to return. And when it did, there in the moonlight was the ghostly figure of a tall, thin man with wild white hair.

"Dr. Reit!" Sheila cried. The scientist had been looking for her, after all. And now he'd found her. Did that mean he had also found a way to take her back to her own world?

"Shhhh!" he said, obviously delighted to see her. "You don't want to wake your friends, do you?"

"I'm so glad you're here!" Sheila lowered her voice just a fraction. If she could have hugged his shimmering form, she would have.

"Yes, well, I've been looking for you," he explained. You are all right, aren't you?"

"Yes, but-" Suddenly Sheila was hit with a wave of homesickness so sharp it nearly undid her. At that moment she would have given anything to see her family. "Have-have you come to take me home?"

"Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about," the scientist answered in his usual distracted manner. "Actually, it's pure luck that I found you. You might say I bounced right across your path."

Sheila couldn't exactly make sense of this, but that wasn’t unusual with Dr. Reit. So she asked the same question she had asked him dozens of times: "What are you talking about?"

The scientist thrust his hands into the pockets of his lab coat with a sigh. "The problem with traveling between worlds, my dear, is crossing the molecular time warp. You just happened to fall into my time machine and wind up in this time. But for me to travel into this world and no other, I need a very specific form of acceleration-"

Sheila tried to picture the high-tech rocket Dr.

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