Axler, James - Deathlands 37 by Axler James

Author:Axler, James
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter Eighteen

As Joe left the room, J.B. stared after him, suspicion hardening his sallow face. "He's too goddamn cagey. He's got a joker in his pack."

Ryan sank onto one of the beds. The fur robes were soft and almost sensually comfortable. "Then we've got to find an ace on the line to play against him."

Krysty sat beside him, brushing a few strands of flame red hair away from her face. "I've never received impressions like this before."

Doc sat gingerly in a chair, wincing as his backside met the hard wood. "Unfortunately I have. Like the

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one I'm receiving from my gluteus maximus."

"What kind of impressions are you receiving?" Mildred asked.

Krysty frowned. "It's a jumbled mixture of human and animal emotions."

"Animal?" Jak questioned, eyebrows raised.

"I've picked up animal emotional impressions before," Krysty explained. "The higher animals, anyway.

Generally their feelings are simplefear, hunger, curiosity. What I detected from the wolves was stronger, very pure and clean. The animals here might not be as intelligent as humans, but their emotional reactions are similar in intensity."

Grunting, J.B. stretched out on a bunk, pillowing his head with his arms. "What was that business Joe pulled with the gold piece?"

"Some sort of psionic accelerator, mebbe," Krysty said. "Crystals and precious metals, particularly heavy ones like silver, gold and platinum, are believed to be conductors of psychic energy."

"Yeah," Mildred commented wryly. "I remember that vogue. Used to be called the New Age. Crystals and certain metals supposedly enhanced your spiritual awareness, purified your auras, drained off negative energyand a fortune from the gullible."

Doc nodded in agreement. "In my day it was called spiritism. Some learned men, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, maintained telepathy was a transmission of electric thought waves. Some exponents of this theory believed the right instrument could serve as the transmitter. Maybe that is what these primitives are using.

Not very sophisticated, however."

Krysty shrugged. "If that's what the gold-and-crystal pieces are, they don't have to be sophisticated.

Quartz crystals have inbuilt electromagnetic properties."

"It sounds like 'far out, man' mumbo jumbo to me," Mildred said.

Krysty smiled tolerantly. "Mebbe it does to you, and mebbe it truly was in your day, but the fact remains that some Indian tribes discovered long ago how to interchange energy with certain kinds of crystals, thought pattern energy included. Mother Sonja once told me crystals were used for sending and receiving telepathic messages, but because people lost the art, the discipline, the majority of the communications degenerated into three-dimensional visions, in a manner that became known as fortune-telling. In fact my mother could 'far-see' with a crystal. She called it scrying."

"Also called crapping," Jak stated. He was testing the edge of one of his throwing knives against the ball of his thumb.

Ryan almost envied the young man's single-mindedness. The mystery of the valley and even of the strange forest city hadn't disturbed Jak at all. Lack of fear served him well.

A young, slim woman entered. Not even the shapeless doeskin smock and fringed mantle she wore disguised the full-breasted figure swelling beneath it.

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