Piers, Anthony - Mode 02 by Piers Anthony

Author:Piers, Anthony
Language: eng
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CHAPTER 10 RABBLE

Darius blinked, acclimatizing to the gloom. They were in a cave or tunnel that seemed to be the continuation of the hole of the giant mandolin, leading straight on into the rock. Perhaps they had simply passed through the petrified back of the mandolin, which had blocked the passage.

It was dark, but the darkness was not total. As they walked, the light brightened somewhat, until they had no trouble seeing their way.

"But where is your contact mind?" Darius asked the horse.

It retreated in alarm as we arrived. But there is another approaching, f can not read it, I only sense its presence. It is female.

"Did you read anything in the original mind?"

No. It was stupid. I reached only as far as its eyes, to help you conjure us.

"Keep working on the new mind. First test for hostility, and warn us. We want only to hide safely until Colene and Proves return."

"You must be ready to use your magic here, Nona," Stave said. "The rabble may be dangerous."

"You call them rabble?" Darius asked, not amused.

"That is what we call them," Nona explained. "All the people and creatures who have been banned from the surface because they lack even illusion magic. There are stories that they have an awful society in the center of the world, and live only to break out and slay all those on the surface. Both the despots and theows watch constantly to be sure that there is no escape for them."

"They may not be friendly, then," Darius remarked with irony.

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have magic, Nona should be able to protect us against them."

"I will try," she agreed. "But I depend on Seqiro to alert me to danger."

She is here.

They paused and let the woman approach them. She was young and comely in a belted brown tunic. She smiled and spread her hands, showing by gesture that she intended no harm. Her hair and eyes were the same shade as her tunic, a nice match.

"This is a banished inhuman monster?" Darius inquired.

I can not yet read her mind, but she is alone and seems friendly.

"I had gathered as much," Darius said wryly.

The woman came to him. She said something.

"I can almost make it out," Nona said. "I think she said she loves you."

Darius snapped a glance at Nona. "This is humor?"

"Maybe I misunderstood," Nona said.

The woman put her arms slowly around Darius, embraced him, and tried to draw his head down for a kiss.

"But I don't think so," Nona added.

He resisted. "But I don't know her!" he protested. "And Colene would be upset."

"I will try to explain to her," Nona said. She spoke to the woman, and because Seqiro continued to translate her thoughts, he heard it as his own language, "Woman, this man is taken."

The woman clung to Darius, speaking emphatically.

I can get only a glimmer.

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