INFINITY HOLD\3 by Longyear Barry B

Author:Longyear, Barry B. [Longyear, Barry B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanteds
Published: 2011-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

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I knocked the fire cube to the sand and put the book back in my kit bag as I smoked my skull. Half the time that passage sounded like some of the spiritual awakening stories I'd heard at CSA meetings. Other times Nelson's thinking might as well've come out of the head of some kind of swamp critter from outer space.

I had been in the deep funk like the midshipman those first days in the Crotch. When Nelson used to talk about that desperate moment in his life, he used to say that from that time a radiant orb was suspended in his mind's eye, urging him on to renown.

I looked over my shoulder at Blue Moon and spat at the sand in honor of the only radiant orb that was suspended in my mind's eye. Still, back in the Crotch, I had felt one of those radiant orbs in my heart after reading about the midshipman. It had been a feeling of hope. The shit never goes on forever. This too shall pass. I sighed as I realized the old Earth platitudes just didn't work on the sand. Tartaros was infinity hold and infinity hold does go on forever, or at least as much of forever as I'd ever see.

As we entered the limits of the old walking column camp, Stays asked and Paxati gave us the full story about the Kvasir maus. It seemed the majority on Kvasir was made up of haystacks, and the salt 'n pepper thing had been getting out of hand for some time. So the haystack cockroaches passed a few quick laws, redefined justice, and started rounding up the maus and sticking them in what they called resident areas. Sharks still call them concentration camps.

All of the maus, of course, were bent. What thumped Kvasir in the gyros, though, was the heap of haystacks who were angry at the government, as well. In their haste to throw all the maus into resident areas, the anti-mau haystacks neglected to change the laws concerning who is eligible to become president. So the maus and the opposition haystacks jumped into the sack and elected Lomon Paxati president of the world government of Kvasir. In addition, he was backed up by a congress with a narrow pro-mau majority. Things were looking up for a whole millisecond.

Unfortunately, while possessing a majority of the votes, the salt 'n pepper coalition did not possess a majority of the guns. Funny how things like that work out. The army and the national police held their own election, arrests were made, and those maus who weren't killed found themselves on a rocket ride to infinity hold. Although there were lots of gramps and urches in the load, most of the maus had been doing dukes for the revolution. They were angry and looking for someone to take it out on.

Stays had an observation. "Sherlock," he said to me, "With this bunch and the shipload of shadow talkers from Cumaris, it looks like more than sharks are getting dumped here.

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