The Man Who Melted by Jack Dann

Author:Jack Dann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781591024873
Publisher: Pyr
Published: 2007-01-15T08:00:00+00:00

Through Joan, Pfeiffer saw Gayet’s cards: he had a Deuce and a Six of Clubs. He could call his hand, but he wasn’t sure of the Deuce. It looked like a Heart, but it could just as easily be a Diamond. If he called it wrong, he would lose the hand, and his heart.

‘I can’t be sure,’ Pfeiffer said to Joan, expecting help.

But Joan was in trouble. Grace had discovered her, and she was stronger than Joan had imagined. Joan was trapped inside Grace’s mind, and Grace, who could not face what Joan had found, denied it.

And snapped.

Joan, realizing she was fighting for her life, screamed for the gamesmaster to deactivate the game. But her screams were lost, for Grace instantly slipped into the gamesmaster’s mind and caught him, too. She had the psychotic’s strength of desperation, and Joan realized that Grace would kill them all rather than face the truth about herself and Gayet.

Instantly Grace went after Pfeiffer. To kill him. She blamed him for Joan’s presence, and Joan felt crushing pain as if she were being buried alive in the dirt of Grace’s mind.

Grace grasped Pfeiffer with a thought, wound dark filaments around him which could not be burned away by white thought or anything else; and like a spider, she wrapped her prey in darkness and looked for physiological weakness, any flaw, perhaps a blood vessel which might rupture in his head. . . .

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