Star Trek - TOS - Spock's World by DIANE DUANE

Author:DIANE DUANE [Diane Duane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-06T16:23:21.255000+00:00

The world dissolved from sparkle to solidity around Jim as he beamed down. He found himself in a little park, like many he and Spock and McCoy had seen the day before. This one Spock had described to him in detail there were three paths that wound out of it, and Jim was to take the one that led off to the left, toward the old city wall.

He took that path, walking slowly. It was a pleasant park the grass was some sort of tough dun-colored growth, broken with tiny, delicate trees with feathery maroon-colored leaves. They looked, in fact, almost exactly like giant featherdusters. Out of curiosity Jim went over to one and touched it . . . and was very surprised when the entire branch folded its leaves away and rolled itself into a tight spiral.

Sorry, he said, and then laughed at himself. Do Vulcans talk to trees, I wonder?

Slowly the branch unrolled and unfurled its leaves once more. Jim restrained himself from touching it again-no reason to make a plant crazy-and headed down the path that led toward the old city wall. It curved broadly, to parallel the wall. Now he recognized where he was he followed the curve of the path, and sheltered from view by an outcropping of rock, he saw the house.

It was fairly large by Vulcan standards, though not as large as one might expect the house of the Ambassador Extraordinary to Terra to be. It was built all on one level, as most of the houses here seemed to be Vulcans seemed to have an aversion to blocking away others view of the sky. The place, in fact, with its surrounding wall just higher than eye-height, looked rather like something one of the old postmodern architects might have built, with curves rather than sharp corners. But at the same time it had a look about it of the old Roman villas a house that looked inward, rather than outward, and kept its secrets and its privacies to itself.

He went up to the gate in the wall and touched the annunciator plate. James Kirk, he said when it glowed.

Jim, came Amandas voice, very cheerful, come on in. The gate swung open for him.

A narrow path bordered with stones led to the front door of the house. It opened as he stepped toward it, and there was Amanda, wearing a coverall, rather stained around the knees, with a pair of pruning shears in her hand. Welcome! she said. Come in and see the garden! Ill give you the two-credit tour later. Or Sarek can do it when he gets back from town. Would you like something cold to drink?

Yes, please, Jim said. Amanda guided him in through the front hall. It was large, and the rooms were built on the open plan the living area and dining area and kitchen were all one clean, beautiful sprawl of rough or polished black stone, and the rear wall was one large window with dilating panels that gave on the garden.

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