Piers, Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality 05 by Piers Anthony

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Chapter 10 - NATASHA

The Sludge continued to tour, and Orb continued to explore the powers of the melodies that had come to her. They rehearsed while traveling in Jonah and discussed her discoveries, for they were all interested.

They knew that, if she mastered the Llano, she could do for them permanently what she had done temporarily-abate their addictions to H, abate the curse on Jezebel so that she could be faithful to the one man she cared for, and bring regular rain to Betsy's farm.

In fact, if she mastered the Llano, she could abolish all addiction and compulsion and vagaries of weather, immensely improving the world wherever she went. They could continue their tour, but in

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dedicated, now, to this aspiration. They realized that only Orb had the capacity to find the Llano, but that her success would benefit them all in both selfish and unselfish ways. They had sought personal gains, but had found a higher mission.

Orb tried to perfect the powers of the music, but all she had were fragments. She could keep the boys free of H while she was with them, but not when apart from them, unless they were in Jonah. She could keep the intolerable lust of night from Jezebel on a similar basis. There had been a mix-up once, and the succubus had gotten separated from Orb's vicinity for an hour. Jezebel had barely made it to the guitarist in time, abating that hour with such dispatch that there could be no doubt of her demonic drive. He never complained about the episode, but agreed emphatically that they should never allow such an accident to happen again.

There was better success on the matter of traveling. Orb practiced and in due course was able to make her way to any spot of the globe in seconds, by expanding to world size and contracting swiftly at the new site. The travel was silent, almost unnoticeable to others; she simply faded gradually from view and reappeared when she returned. She visited Luna, who seemed only moderately surprised, and even her old home in Ireland, but her mother had disappeared. That brought her quickly back to Luna; what had happened?

"She has found another occupation," Luna said. "Don't worry; she's satisfied."

"And didn't tell me?" Orb demanded. "Didn't even bid farewell?"

"She felt it better to leave you out of it," Luna said.

Orb's temper frayed. "She told you and not her daughter?"

"She meant to tell you herself, at the proper time." But Luna saw the way Orb was reacting and relented.

"I suppose it won't hurt if I tell you. Do you remember how she used to be an aspect of Fate, before she fell in love with Pace?"

"Well, that was a bit before my time-" Orb stiffened. "You mean-?"

"She went back. She's Fate again."

"But she couldn't-I mean, Clotho is young and-"

"As Lachesis.

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