The Cosega Sequence: A Techno Thriller by Legg Brandt

Author:Legg, Brandt [Legg, Brandt]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Laughing Rain
Published: 2014-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Gale, Rip, and Sean were awake and munching on trail bars when Tahoma arrived with a surprisingly deluxe hot breakfast.

“Thank you,” Rip said. “This is too much.”

“Where did you get this?” Gale asked in amazement. She felt as if they were a million miles from the modern world.

“My sister made it,” Tahoma answered, exchanging a glance with Rip. “She is a warrior in the kitchen.”

“How is Mai?” Rip asked. Gale detected a soft and hopeful tone in Rip’s voice.

“She’s as much of a firecracker as you remember.”

“It’s been a while. I should have kept in touch,” Rip said, while chewing on a flatbread sandwich of vegetables and eggs that might have been the tastiest thing he’d ever eaten.

“Probably you should have,” Tahoma said. “But the seasons are different in dreams.”

Gale thought it an odd statement, but Rip nodded as if it were profound logic; as if he’d heard it many times before. She was envious of how easily Tahoma wore his spirituality.

“Sean, I brought you a cola,” Tahoma said, fishing a cold can from a small cooler.

“Thanks! My favorite breakfast beverage,” Sean said, noticing that Gale and Rip got tea.

Tahoma nodded, his eyes squinting during a lingering stare. He smiled. “When y’all done eating, I’ll take you deeper.”

“Thanks, Tahoma . . . for everything.”

Tahoma started breaking down the unused tent. Gale grabbed their stuff from the other one. “Your eyes tell a story,” Tahoma said to her.

She’d heard similar pick-up lines countless times, but she suspected Tahoma meant it in a different way. “How do you see so much?”

He thought for several seconds. “It seems that in your society everything exists on two separate levels: there is the living and there’s the dead. There are humans and animals, known and unknown, the latest news and the long forgotten. Everything is separate.” He tossed their sleeping bags in the back of his truck. “My people have always understood that it is easier to walk between the worlds. Otherwise, you’re half-blind.”

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