Cyborg 03 - High Crystal by Martin Caidin

Author:Martin Caidin [Caidin, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0583126693
Publisher: Mayflower
Published: 1976-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

They shared a meal in the cabin of the C-47. Having certainly not expected a woman on this expedition, Steve found himself even more unprepared for Carla’s effect on him. Her dark hair rested casually about her shoulders in the refuge of the airplane cabin, whereas outside it had blown wildly. Now, in the soft glow of the lamps, he could also study her lovely features. Their conversation in the cabin, shared with the others, was of the roadway, the mixture of huge stones and smaller rocks that could be seen, barely, beneath the glasslike surface material. As Viejo had said, she had grown up, literally, on studies of Peru’s ancient past, and like Dr. Yavari had carried on the search to unlock the mysteries of an ancient people that had built a civilization still defying today’s science. Carla was separated from other women by more than her knowledge; she was a living thread from this ancient past to the present.

That night, when Carla was to be assigned her stand at guard, Steve made certain they would be together for those few hours. Outside the airplane and the small collection of tents, both of them in heavy, warm clothing, rifles slung to their backs, they walked slowly about the perimeter of the camp, careful to remain fairly close to the ghostlike airplanes in the mists. She was friendly to him; in the few minutes of conversation inside the C-47 cabin, she had made that evident. But he was hardly confident that it was especially personal. Perhaps even more to Carla than her father, because it was of her generation, the exploration of the moon was related directly to what they explored here in the dim past of their own people. There was that link, bond, between them.

Except he wanted Carla Yavari to know him as someone beside a man who had journeyed between worlds. He wanted her to know him as a . . . He looked at her in the mists of the bitterly uncomfortable night and decided it would be an advantage that they’d have plenty of time before he tried to get close . . . before she discovered he was steel and plastic as well as flesh and blood.

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