The Timegod by L. E. Modesitt Jr

Author:L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 1993-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

XX.

In a paratime that waits for a favorable change wind, the Grand Commander stands in front of the star plot.

She is impatient, and her tail lashes behind her in subdued swings.

The priestess, her scales yellow with age, enters, bows a bow that is more token than real, and presents the eternasteel tablet to the Supreme Commander of the star fleet.

The Commander’s violet eyes flicker, and her tail is still. The ratings plugged into the command center are aware of the tension. Their green scales stand on edge as they wait for a reaction.

The Commander’s eyes dart from the tablet that may be ancient to the star plot and back again.

Thump! Her tail strikes the deck with a single crash. She is pleased.

The ratings relax as the Commander begins readying the order of battle. The target is the second planet of an obscure system with a yellow sun.

The arrays of black ships accelerate toward their jump point. For now…for now…they are not real, only smoke in a paratime reality, owing their existence, such as it is, to the set of one god’s mind, that god who may or may not deliver the tablet that rests before the star plot…

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