Doctor Who - Bernice Summerfield - 19 - Dead Romance by Lawrence Miles
Author:Lawrence Miles [Miles, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ISBN: 9780426205326
Google: g8sAAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0426205324
Publisher: Virgin
Published: 1999-08-15T07:00:00+00:00
54
This was wrong. How did I know this was wrong?
Cwej‟s people never, ever, ever swapped their secrets with
other races. It was a fact of life. Something so basic, I felt like
I‟d known it even before I‟d been told. Like the time travellers‟
control over space and time went so deep that one bad
decision could make everyone in the universe feel ill.
How much of history gets decided like that, I wonder? In
my world, or the „real‟ one? One of the time travellers
sneezes half a galaxy away, and whole wars start down on
Earth. I‟d like to think that this explains all the things I lived
through in London. I‟d like to think the reason I‟ve spent so
much of my (remembered) life blowing my brains out with
drugs and poisons is that I was trying to get over the shame
of Cwej‟s employers, trying to shake the guilt they‟ve always
felt about the things they did in their past, when they were a
lot younger and a lot more careless with their time travelling.
It‟s like original sin, I suppose. The oldest civilization suffers,
so we have to suffer along with them. We have to live
out their nightmares, and deal with all their paranoia.
But I don‟t suppose any of this is true. I‟m just trying to
find excuses for everything I‟ve ever done, all those mornings
waking up sick with the taste of vomit in my mouth, all
that time spent mixing Space Dust with the cocaine (for that
extra adolescent buzz and no, it doesn‟t work, but I had to
try). I don‟t think I can blame Cwej‟s employers for every-
thing. Or the Gods, even.
Another conversation between me and Cwej, while we were
lying on our backs looking up at the stars:
„How can the sphinxes do that, though?‟ I said. „How can
they just mess up the whole shape of the universe?‟
„You mean, by making sphinx space? Er...‟ Cwej mulled
it over for a while. „I don‟t know. Maybe it was always meant
to happen that way. You know? Maybe there‟s something in
nature that says things like the Gods have got to be there.‟
„Like an appendix,‟ I said.
Another long pause from Cwej. „Um...?‟
„An appendix,‟ I said. „Part of your body that doesn‟t
really do anything except go wrong and give you gut ache.
Maybe that‟s what sphinx space is. Maybe it‟s like the
universe‟s appendix.‟
„Right,‟ said Cwej. He sounded like he thought I‟d gone a
bit strange.
(We had a lot of conversations like that. If I‟ve got space
later on, I‟ll tell you Cwej‟s story about visiting a planet run
by intelligent numbers. „They were all between seventeen
and eighteen,* he said. „All the really complicated bits came
after the decimal point.‟ You‟ll laugh, believe me.)
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