Lavabull by J.R. Rain & Piers Anthony

Lavabull by J.R. Rain & Piers Anthony

Author:J.R. Rain & Piers Anthony [Rain, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2015-10-06T05:00:00+00:00


Chapter 16: Mark Twain

It was like walking through a wasteland or a garbage dump, this excursion through the guts of a man’s mind.

It seemed that half of it was concerned with sex, a third with survival, and the rest with assorted things washed up on the shore of a frustrated existence. It didn’t help that she was the passionate object of the sexual portion; both his man aspect and his bull aspect wanted to get into her and never get out. Completely unrealistic, of course, but the underlying passion had little concern for reality. If there was one thing men were stupid about, it was sex. Fortunately around the edges, among the weeds, were some reasonable constraints, such as the knowledge that she could heat her core and incinerate any intrusion she did not want. Also, the early throes of what could reasonably pass for love. This bull’s experience with that china shop was limited, but it was already forming into a ring in his nose.

What she was looking for was anything relating to Villainous or the animen, that predated the Villainous broadcast. The Bull had not consciously known of them, but they had surely known of him, especially if he had been created as part of the program. What was different about him? Why did they want to eliminate him? Just because he had a bovine mind of his own? That might be annoying, but not reason for such a complicated effort to get rid of him. Why hadn’t they tended to the extermination of mankind first, then gotten around to the details like The Bull at their convenience? He really would have known nothing about the animen had Brookstone not told him. Not that ignorance would have been bliss, as the human realm collapsed.

There had to be something else. Something that made him a real threat to Villainous. How could that be, when he was just one of a group of conversions? It had to be a difference that set him apart from the others. Yet the merging of animal and man had been successful, so it wasn’t physical. Could it be mental? It wasn’t extraordinary intelligence; he was okay, but no genius. It wasn’t any great background knowledge; he didn’t know anything that had not already been in the minds of the man and the bull before they merged. He did not have any secret knowledge of Villainous scandal that could be used for blackmail. He simply didn’t know anything outside of himself.

But there was an obscurity. It was like a passage into a cellar chamber marked NO TRESPASSING. What was that doing here? Why bother to mark it off? It was right between the mind of the bull and the mind of the man, like an interface. It was not native to either mind; it was something inserted from outside. That had to be the work of Villainous.

She oriented on it. It seemed like a connection between the two minds, except that it was closed, not open.



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