Time's Crucible by Marc Platt

Author:Marc Platt [Platt, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780426203650
Google: 42xwNwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0426203658
Publisher: London Bridge
Published: 1992-04-14T07:00:00+00:00

17: Mutatis Mutandis

Listen, Ace!

She hardly noticed the smooth metal buttress that rose slowly up to hit her. The solid air grated the breath out of her lungs. Down the face of the Watch Tower she went like an ant on a playground slide, her head usurped by someone else's memories and dreams that had nowhere better to go.

The Doctor's memories were feeding into her mind.

A moment. A single flute was playing somewhere. A gentle, slow, dreaming sound, recalling fields of tall, still grass on Lungbarrow mountain before haytime; the baking wash of Elysian sunshine that warmed him through to the bones; a golden-winged beatitude fly that hovered lazily from one nodding pool of nectar to the next. The scent of hot, dried Gallifreyan earth.

His cousins, full-grown babies born from the family Loom. Yet even they laughed occasionally, lured from the dust-webbed halls of the brooding House on lushberrying trips in the summer woodlands.

And no dinner for those that old Housekeeper Satthralope found out. The arch tyrant of his youth with her clay pipe, wispy beard and twenty-way mirrors.

" Only a doctor! Wretched child. Such a disappointment to the family and to the House! "

A memory frozen in music played on the instrument of imagination. Without changing its tone or metre, it could set myriad moods, a commentary on whatever scene it accompanies. A gesture of the hand makes it a courtly dance. A glance of the eye makes it a union of love. A single tear makes it the messenger of death.

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