Two in Time Wilson Tucker

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.He stepped away from the building and then turned back to look at it: a massive white concretetemple in the moonlight.The barbaric legions had failed to bring it down, despite the damage causedelsewhere on the station.The sky was the second surprise: he had seen it by day and marveled, but at night it wasshockingly beautiful.The stars _were_ bright and hard as carefully polished gems, and there were ahundred or a thousand more than he'd ever seen before; he had never known a sky like that in hislifetime.The entire eastern rim of the heavens was lighted by a rising moon of remarkable brilliance.Chaney stood alone in the center of the parking lot searching the face of the moon, searching outthe Sea of Vapors and the pit known as Bode's Crater.The pulsating laser there caught his eye and heldit.That one thing had not changed--that one monument not destroyed.The brilliant mote still flashed onthe rim of Bode's Crater, marking the place where two astronauts had fallen in the Seventies, markingtheir grave and their memorial.One of them had been black.Brian Chaney thought himself lucky: he hadair to breathe but those men had none.He said aloud: "You weren't so damned clever, Ibycus! You missed _that_ one--your prophetsdidn't show you the _new_ sign in the sky."Chaney sat down in the tilted cart and stretched out his legs for balance.The rifle was anunpleasant lump under his spine and he threw it aside to be rid of it.In a little while he leaned backwardand rested against the bed of the cart.The whole of the southeast sky was before him.Chaney thoughthe should go looking for Katrina, for Arthur and Kathryn, and a place to sleep.Perhaps he would do thatafter a while, but not now, not now.The stray thought came that the engineers had been right about one thing: the polywater tankhadn't leaked.Elwood Station was at peace.About this TitleThis eBook was created using ReaderWorks"!Publisher Preview, produced by OverDrive, Inc.For more information on ReaderWorks, visit us on the Web at "www.readerworks.com" [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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