The Dragon Knight by Dickson Gordon R

Author:Dickson, Gordon R. [Dickson, Gordon R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour, Adult, General, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781627934916
Google: vjcfAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00GXN7MRC
Goodreads: 19156695
Publisher: Start Science Fiction
Published: 1990-11-01T08:00:00+00:00

ME/DREAM→DREAM/CAROLINUS

The more he thought about it—as he lay wrapped up in his sleeping cloths under the stars and by the dying embers of the fire, beyond which the black humps that were the shapes of his three other human companions lay—the more he liked his idea. His mind worked it back and forth. He did his best to think of reasons why such a clumsy formula might work, or might not. Worn out at last with going back and forth from one possibility to the other, he slipped into slumber.

For a while his mind hopped and slid through a series of disconnected dream scenes that were very ordinary and customary when he was first falling asleep. Then came a blank spell. Then, unexpectedly, he found himself outside Carolinus's cottage at the Tinkling Water. It was just about dawn. Carolinus and Aragh were both there, standing outside Carolinus's dwelling on the path between the flowers. The only difficulty with his dream picture was that everything was upside down.

"What is this?" he snapped in his dream at the Accounting Office. No sooner had he dreamed that he had spoken the words, than he was amazed at his own audacity. He had never spoken brusquely to the Accounting Office in his life. But in his dream it answered now; and its tone, far from being angry, was apologetic.

"Oh, sorry," the bass voice answered; and the scene turned right side up.

"Actually," the bass voice went on, "you were the one who was upside down."

It fell silent. Jim was left wondering how he could be upside down, when as far as he could see he was not in the scene at all. He merely seemed to be a disembodied point of view, an invisible pair of eyes. And an invisible pair of ears, also, evidently; for just then he realized he could hear Carolinus and Aragh talking.

"Well, everything's well—here at least," Carolinus was saying. "You'd be as aware of that as I would, too bad I can't say the same thing for elsewhere. You know that James has gone to France?"

"Yes," growled Aragh. "I told him it was nonsense!"

"Nonsense is a matter of point of view, wolf," said Carolinus. "What's nonsense to you may not be nonsense to James, or Sir Brian, or a number of other people."

"All the two-legged ones—" said Aragh grumpily, and broke off. "No offense, Mage. I wasn't speaking of you. But I swear, nearly anything on two legs has about as much sense as a butterfly."

"There is more to what moves the world than simply sense; common sense, I take it you mean," said Carolinus. "This business of rescuing the Prince from France is no such thing as the Loathly Tower affair, is it? No clear-cut matter with Evil perched in a dark place, its creatures gathered below, ready to fight all comers; sending out its legions of such as the sandmirks to overcome any who might oppose it. Not at all like the affair at the Loathly Tower, is it?"

Aragh stared at the mage with hooded eyes.

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