ZX Power #02 24 мая 1997

Fantasy - G. Garison (continued, part 4-6).

(C) Harry Harrison.


          Continued.
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            Chapter 4.


   - I've never seen that-be
someone was so angry, as
doctor - said Brian.

   - It can not be to blame -
Aydzhel bent instrumentation
flap and had a conversation with the ship's brain. He quickly 
pulled the key, and read on-screen response.


   - You have disqualified him
fame. It is unlikely that he still
once in a lifetime an opportunity to restore the health of the 
winner. 

   - Yes, indeed, now
unlikely. But how did you convince him? As he believed in 
something that you and the ship will be able to take care of me 
better than staff hospital?


   - I did not convince him of this.
But for me, and at the base of cultural relations is
influential friends in Anwar.
I admit that I'm even a little pinch - he leaned over and
read the tape pointer courses.
- Do you have a little time in
stock, but I prefer to be better to wait on the other end of 
the road. We we start as soon as I pinned

you in the stasis field.

   Stasis field leaves no trace in the body or mozgu.V it has no
weight, no pressure, no pain - no
do not feel anything. When
Brian came to himself, Aydzhel unbuckled seat belts with the 
agility, which is achieved by a multi-year trenirovkoy.V ship 
has not changed, but at the porthole Now you can watch

red emptiness characteristic
motion in the jump.

   - How do you feel? -
asked Aydzhel.

   Obviously, the ship was interested in the same. From the 
device, installed near the generator stasis field, jumped out 
sensor which is immediately attached to the

Brian's hand. Dr. Anwar
equipped the medical section at
ship detailed instructions.
Rapid screening and removal of
dozen readings metabolism
Bryan testified that
that the patient's condition is normal.
Obviously everything went very well,
because a single reaction vessel was an injection of vitamins 
and glucose. 

   - I can not say that I feel very well, - said Brian 
oblakachivayas on pillow - but every day I

I feel constant progress.

   - I hope so. Before arriving at the Dees at your disposal
about two weeks. Will
you're in shape to that time?

   - No promises. However,
I think that time is enough. Tomorrow will begin to engage in
Light exercise, I hope
it soon I will strengthen. A
Now, tell me of Dis and
that we are there to do.

   - I do not want to give explanations
twice. Therefore compelled to offer you a while to temper their 
curiosity. Soon we will meet with another ship and take to 
yourself aboard another person. Thus, our unit will consist of 
three people: me, you and ekzobiolog.Kak Once he's on board, 
I'll tell in detail both of you. I would advise you

Now shove his head in a box and start the linguistic study
disanskogo language. By the time you need to own it
perfectly.

   With avtogipnozom contributing memorization, Bryan easily 
mastered grammar and vocabulary disanskogo language. Much 
harder it was to the pronunciation. He is constantly swallowing 
ending. The language was rich sounds, spoken on the exhale with 
guturalnymi consonants. Aydzhel went to another part of the 
ship, when Brian use the sound mirror

Sound Analyzer, trying to digest this awful pronunciation.
Their ship continued to move in
mode hopping on the settlement rate. He warmed his fragile
human cargo, fed him and supplied fresh air. He was
ordered to take care of health
Brian, which he did, performing
instructions and noting the constant
progress. Another part of the ship's brain is constantly 
carefully was counting microseconds, and when

come settlement time, including rele.Vspyhnula lamp and gently 
but firmly, buzzed the buzzer. 

   Aydzhel yawned, put aside the paper, which read and
passed into the control tower. He
started, when passed
cabins, where Brian auditioned
record their disanskogo.

   - Turn off this dying
Brontosaurus and tie. We
come to the point of optimal probability and the soon return to
ordinary space.

   Brian and Aydzhel were tied, when suddenly the mode hopping
interrupted, and their emissions in normal space and time.
They are not loosing, but just sat and watched the unusual 
pattern of the constellations. Approximately star fifth value 
was their only neighbor in this remote part of the universe. 
They waited until the computer determines the position and will 
make the necessary calculations to determine the location 
location. 

   Rang warning
call - for a short time again turn on the jump, but here
is turned off. Thus, both
these actions show people
simultaneous. This was repeated
two more times until the ship
brain was not satisfied.

   Finally burned the inscription:
"The engines are included. Somewhere near another vehicle 
pulled up. Aydzhel untied the straps stretched and took up 
cooking. He calculated the time arrival with great accuracy.

Soon they were able to contact
another ship.

   Aydzhela ship immediately
gave a conditional response signal.Vmesto passenger ship left 
in the space of ten-egg made of metal. Once it happened, the 
strange craft switched mode hop and disappeared.

Aydzhel received signals from the eggs and
subjected them to rigorous review.

   Were taken into account the angle, force, the Doppler 
effect, timed and meeting point. Soon it seemed shining egg, 
then it disappeared from the sector review of the main screen, 
as the ship turned to him their input hatch. Clicked magnetic 
capture. Egg were drawn. 

   - Go down and release the doctors - said Brian Aydzhel.
- Just in case I stay with
devices.

   - What should I do?

   - Wear the suit and open
outer hatch eggs. It is made of
metal foil, so do not
I suggest you difficult to find out. A hole tool, which is in 
this box. When Dr. Morris will

on board, throw this thing out.
Just grab with a transmitter and locator - they can get you
useful.

   Brian carefully closed the hatch. Then he began to carefully 
and carefully cut a thin folgu.V next moment, Dr. Morris

flew from the eggs, discarding Brian's side.

   - What is it? - He asked.

   In the suit of doctor was not
radio, and he could not speak. But
angrily shaking their fists. Facial
plate helmet was not transparent, so it was impossible to 
consider the expression on his face, which accompanied by the 
gesture. Brian shrugged and turned to

throw away the shell and re-close the input lyuk.Kogda pressure
became normal, he threw his
hat and motioned the doctor
to do the same.

   - All of you - a pack of dirty lying dog! - I heard he once 
removed his helmet from the head doctor. 

   Brian was dumbfounded. The doctor
Morris proved long black
hair, large eyes and mouth perfectly shaped, curved in
Currently gnevom.Doktor Morris was a woman.

   - So, it's you and there is that
dirty pig, which is responsible for this cruelty? -
ominously shouted Brian Lea
Morris.

   - In the control room - quickly responded, Brian - now is a 
man named Aydzhel. Inside you'll find enough weight

for the full amount of their hatred. You'll see it immediately, 
and I am ready to join you ...


   The last words of Brian threw
pursuit, since it has already departed from the premises. Brian 
hurried after her, not wanting to miss an interesting event to 
break the monotony of their journey. 

   - It's the same thing this kidnapping! To lie and act
against my will! None
court throughout the galaxy can not
give you a decent sentence, and I
I will just squeal with delight
when your big face psycho
alone!

   - Idiots! - Breathed Aydzhel,
when she stormed into the control room, ignoring the cold
equanimity her exclamations.
- Who are they sent to us! I did request qualified to work in 
exobiology difficult circumstances, young and strong enough to 
work in field conditions. And these cretins

Department of recruits sent
here the most lousy little thing that will melt under the very 
first rain! 

   - Do not be afraid! Will not melt! -
self-esteem Dr. Morris immediately
taken up over the anger. - Women's stamina everywhere well
known, and I have the data much better than the ordinary
average woman. But it does not
nothing to do with the fact that I
said. - Parried thrusts in
her address, she incessantly returned to the top. - Hire me
for work at university
Moller planet. I signed
appropriate contract. Then
This fool-agent reported that
contract changed - see paragraph one hundred eighty-nine,
item "11", and that such nonsense, in general, in the end he
said that I was back to
other work. He pushed me
in this damned ball without
apology, and I was thrown out for
board. If this is not a violation of personal integrity ...

   - Clearly! - Cut her effusions
Aydzhel. - Brian, we have
pave a new course. Seek out the nearest inhabited planet
and head to ney.Tam we planted this hysterical and choose
imagine some guy standing. Although we are heading to the most 
interesting for exobiology planet, but for our work we

need people who can
clearly and correctly carry out any orders and regulations and 
does not fainted from excess heat.


  For a moment, Brian confused: so far all the navigation work 
performed Aydzhel, so Brian just does not

knew how to do it all.

   - Oh, no - once again shifted his position, said Lea. - It's 
so easy you of me can not escape!

I, incidentally, won the first
place on the course, although most
of the five hundred graduates were men. This statement - "The 
universe for men - everywhere is exposed as a rule only just 
because it is claimed by men. So, how is called this is your 
paradise planet, which we going?


   - Diss. I'll tell you about it,
as soon as we come to the course -
He turned to the instrument.

   Leah, meanwhile slipped
of the suit and went to play its cabin leads to the
his brilliance.

   Only then Brian came to himself with amazement what had 
happened, remarked that he had probably already fairly long 
open mouth, and hastened to take a serious look. 

   - This is, in your opinion, is called
Applied psychology? - How to
seriously and he asked.

   - Not exactly - answered
Aydzhel - think for yourself, it all
still had to perform a job as a contract, even if not bothered
acquainted with all its terms. Simply it was necessary for 
someone to spend their anger. I have only accelerated this 
process, it natolknuv thought of the hated for her male 
superiority. By experience I know that most women in men's 
work, very painfully react in similar

cases: for they are too often
flew over the head.

   Aydzhel slowly introduced into the machine
exchange rate band and scowled. After standing in silence a few 
minutes, he added:


   - But that I told her
there is a large element of truth. Indeed, I need a young,
hardy and highly exobiology of volunteers. But I never thought 
that I send a woman, but now

too late to send it back ... Dis - not a place for women.

   - Why? - Asked Brian.

   At this moment the door to the wheelhouse
opened and entered Lea.

   - Well, that's all in the assembly. Sit down. Now, perhaps 
it's time to answer your question. 
________________________________ 


(C) Harry Harrison.


          Continued.
________________________________


            Chapter 5.


   - Dis - Aydzhel looked into
thick folder - is the third
planetary system, Epsilon
Eriadna. Fourth - Nidzhorzh, remember, because it will be in
what is vazhno.Dlya of
to visit the Dis needed
a very good reason, but not
requires no explanation,
When going out to the world. Too hot and too dry - temperatures 
there seldom fall below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit,

so that the entire planet - baked
rock and hot sand. Water
occurs there mainly in the form of salty, chemically saturated
swamps, and its impossible to drink without any treatment. All 
these facts and many others are collected in

this dossier, and later you will be
given the opportunity to study them. Now I just want to
to convince you that this planet - the most disgusting and 
inhospitable place in the universe. The same applies to its 
inhabitants ... Here's what disantsy ... Lea looked on the 
screen. It does not hit the physical differences; an 
experienced biologist, specializing in strange shapes life, she 
has seen many strange things. No, she was struck by something 
else: human posture, facial expression, grin your teeth. 

   - It looks as if he wants to kill the photographer, - 
whispered she said.


   - It is well done
after the photo was taken. Like all disantsy, full of contempt 
and hatred for foreigners, but not without reason. His planet 
was inhabited by chance during a break. I'm not sure

detail, but the overall picture is clear.
Clearly, here was the development of
minerals - the planet
rich in minerals and mine them
very easily. But the water there can be
receive just by cleaning and
before most of it had to be imported. During a break Dis, like 
many others, was forgotten. What happened to

its population, can serve
Hymn to the adaptive capacity of man. Individuals
usually died in terrible suffering, but on the whole race has 
survived. They have changed a lot, but there 
chelovekopodobnymi.Kogda water and food disappeared, and worn 
mechanisms ceased to operate, people made heroic efforts,

to survive. They could not have it
done mechanically, but by the
time when the last car had broken down, have a sufficient 
number of people have adapted to environmental conditions.


   Their descendants still inhabit the planet, completely 
adapted to their environment. Their body temperature about a 
hundred thirty degrees Fahrenheit.

Their throat is equipped with special fabrics and store water. 
There are minor changes

aimed at in order to adapt to the conditions of the planet. I
I do not know the details, but the report
is the author's enthusiasm about the
symbiotic relationship. And reports claim that people
first became active component kompleksoekologicheskoy system 
rather than a guest. 

   - Amazing! - Cried
Lea.

   - Really? - Frowned Aydzhel. - Maybe with abstraktnonauchnoy 
point of view. If you will take notes, perhaps

at the time you write about it
book. It's already on the other side.
I am sure that all of these morphological changes and repulsive
intimacy, delight you, doctor
Morris. But when you identify the blood group and admire the 
testimony of your thermometer, do not forget to give due 
disantsam attention. We must find out what makes them

such, otherwise we will have to be
witnessing the death of this extraordinary world.

   - What do you mean? - Indignant Lea. - You want to destroy 
them? Destroy these amazing geopaticheskie resources? Why?


   - Because they are incredibly
unbearable, that's why! In the hands of
these hotheads got a few primitive Cobalt
bombs. They want to singe their wicks and hurl them at Nidzhord,
its neighbor. Nothing is their
convincing, they require unconditional surrender. This is 
impossible for many reasons, mainly because they want nidzhortsy

save this planet for themselves.
They tried to find a compromise
solution, but they have this personal
did not happen. Disantsami owns
the idea of ​​racial extermination. Fleet
Nidzhorda Disom.Utverzhden already hanging over the term of use 
of cobalt bombs. But nidzhortsev enough hydrogen bombs to

destroy the entire planet in a nuclear
flame. And we must stop it.

   Aydzhel zamolchal.Brayan glanced at the screen, trying to 
make presentation about the images on

screen man. Naked horny legs, the only clothing -
tuft of material around the hips. Through
shoulder hanging something like a
green vine. From his belt, sticks
a few strange objects
made of metal, stone and leather. The only familiar thing
had a knife with an unusual pattern.
Some loops, bells and
curved lumps were intertwined in
meaningless figure, perhaps
all this had religious significance. But look a knife as
if they are frequently used, and
Brian felt uneasy. If they are used, then
Why?

   - Can not believe it - finally
he concluded. - Except
several metal objects, this seems low-browed released directly 
from the Stone Age. I do not understand what things can

enough to threaten our planet?

   - Nidzhortsy believe in it, and that's enough for me - said
Aydzhel. - They paid a lot of
money to our base of cultural relations that we
tried to prevent war.
Because they are our
employers, we are obliged to fulfill their prosbu.Brayan ignore 
this lie, thinking that she intended for Lea. But in my mind

he said, to question
then Aydzhela about the real situation.

   - That the report technicians - Aydzhel threw them on the 
table. 

   - Do Dis is a cobalt
bombs, but the main threat is not
them. They have also setup
mode jump, which can
to deliver these bombs on Nidzhord.
Disantsy said that when they
do it ...

   - And when the same term? - Asked
Lea.

   - After eight days, if the situation has not changed since 
then, and if Nidzhortsy not yet dared to life

face Dis. I assure you, they want nothing to do bad,
they are very peaceful people. But they
will be forced to drop their bombs,
because they want to survive.

   - What should I will do
I? - Lea said, leafing through
page report. - This combination is rarely seen even on
Land. You lean as underfed chicken, young enough and survive, 
if we are behind you sufficient supervision, so I understand 
your position on Dis. But I exobiology with a bias in 
anthropology. What help can I help you? 

   - My faith in our suppliers recruits restored -
He interrupted her protest raised
hand. - And now, enough chatter. On it have no more time. 
Nidzhortsy lost about thirty agents, trying to find bombs. Our 
organization lost six agents, including

my predecessor as
Head operatsii.On was a good man, but in my opinion,
went down the wrong path. I believe that it is not physical, and
cultural problem.

   - We must learn how everything has evolved - Lea said, 
frowning. - All that is still spoken, is static. 

  - This problem is very old -
origin. As Newton and the apple that fell on him. Levy and
hysteresis in a distorted vide.Vse
once had a beginning. If we
establish the reason for these
people are so inclined to go to
Hell, maybe we will then be possible to fix it. I'm not going
stop the search of bombs and set the "jump". We must
consider and use all
that can prevent the suicide of the planet.

   - You are smarter than to Seem
first sight - noticed Lea
collecting pieces of papers and stood up. - You can count on 
me. Now all I do is studied in bed, if anyone of you

show me a room with a strong
lock. No need to call me. I
'll call myself when I want to eat.

   Brian was not sure
she was joking or serious,
so silent. He spent
her to an empty cabin. After
as she entered and closed the door behind him, he went on
search Aydzhela. He was in
galley, adding to its weight
a dollop of aspic, filling the huge tureen.

   - Do you think, not too
Whether it is small for the innate
dugout; its top below my
Chin.

   - It is possible, because
Land - tank obsolete genes. Weak spinoobraznye appendicitis, 
bad eyes. If They did not have universities, we do not

would pay attention to them.

   - Why have you lied to her about
Grounds for cultural relations?

   - Because it's a secret - I hope it is, in your opinion, 
sufficient why? - Aydzhel scraped the last bits of jelly soup 
tureens. - It is better to eat something. Refreshment. Base

must remain confidential, unless
Once it wants to achieve something. If it is destined to return 
home would be better if she did not be aware of what she

really worked. If
She joins us, then
can tell everything. But I
I doubt that it endorsed
what I'm going to take.
In particular, if we fail
to prevent the war, I myself dropped by Dees several hydrogen
bombs.

   - I can not believe it!

   - You heard it right, and should not be staring at me
eyes. As the latter method myself By breaking these bombs, but
I will not let it make Nidzhordu. This
can save them.

   - Saving? But they are all
undergo radiation and die! exclaimed Brian.

   - Do not disantsev. I want to save
nidzhortsev. Stop shrinking
your fists, better sit down and take a slice of this cake, it
beautiful. Nidzhortsy - the only ones who should be taken into 
account. Their planet is blessed by game case. When Dees was 
cut off from the rest of the planets, it residents have turned 
into a gang crawling through a swamp killers. On

Nidzhore opposite happened. There you can live in peace,
plucking fruit from trees. The planet's population was small,
educated and intelligent.
Rather than engage in
idleness and degraded, they
substantiated a viable and growing company. Do not machine - 
when they reopened, they do not even use the wheel. They

become something of a specialist
on culture, deeply penetrating into the
scope of understanding people -
sphere in which has never
managed to succeed machine civilization. Of course, they were
just grace a godsend for
Our Cultural Foundations
Relationship, and we worked a lot with them. Non-resistance -
characteristic of these people. AND
if in order to survive themselves, they will destroy Dees,
then their philosophy of collapse. Physically, they will 
continue to continue to live, but then on the

their entire planet king wolf
law. They will threaten their
competitors wars and bombs.

   - Since then, they have now
paradise.

   - Do not mockers. It's just
a world of people with their love and
hatred. They have learned to live
together without anger and rage. And,
maybe in the future they
point the way to all mankind.
They deserve to take care of them. Now go
to yourself, learn and meet disansky dokladami.Vse it to you
We must learn before landing.
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(C) Harry Harrison.


          Continued.
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            Chapter 6.


   - Name, PLEASE YOURSELF.
Calm words coming from
speaker did not match the picture on the screen. Spacecraft to 
cross their orbit over the disomy has recently been

torgovtsem.Begly inspection immediately
found fastened to the body
turret. Black muzzle
guns looked down exactly nih.Aydzhel turned on the computer.

   - It Aydzhel. Figure retinal 490-VI-67, at the same time
it passes through your password
squadron. You want to check the picture?

   - It's not necessary,
Thanks. And if you turn on the record, I will give you a 
message received from the Prima-1. 

   - Record - handed Aydzhel.

   A few minutes of silence.

   - Curse! Again, trouble, and just four days before
Bang! Prima-1 - this is our headquarters
on Dis. Our ship has a cargo
to hide, so we can
landed right in portu.Mozhet
be, the plan changed, and it's not me
like.

   Something is hiding behind the words
Aydzhela and, against his will
Brian entered his thoughts. Trouble awaited them on the planet
below. When there was a tape recording Aydzhel leaned over her,
rereading every word as
his appearance on lente.Kogda recording was over, he just 
snorted and went to the galley. Then

Brian picked up the tape and read
it:

   "Aydzhel! Aydzhel! Aydzhel!
Touchdown in the spaceport's dangerous!
A night landing is preferable
coordinates 46 092 MN 76. Immediately send a ship. You
meet Rion. End! End! The End! "

   Landing in the dark was safer. Devices to make the necessary 
maneuvers, while not disantsev was, apparently, detection 
equipment. Altimeter stopped at zero, and a soft push was

the only witness to the end
landing on the planet. All the lights were turned off, weak 
light only dials devices. And the infrared screen reflects 
nothing. He was full of gray-white glow - sand and stone were 
still hot. On the screen is blank not moving.


   - We arrived first - said
Aydzhel, obscuring the windows and
including in the cabin light.

   They looked at each other, their
face glistened with sweat.

   - Why do you keep the ship
this temperature? - Asked
Lea, wiping his brow with a handkerchief.

   Without outer clothing, she seemed to Brian even thinner. 
But the thin dress, barely reaching to the knees, could not 
hide much. She seem small, but feminine. Her breasts were full, 
but the tall, slender waist is contrasted with the roundness of 
her hips. 

   - Should I turn around,
that you could examine me
from the back? "- she asked Brian.

   The five-day experience has taught him
that such comments are best left unanswered. It will only be
worse if he tries to say
something reasonable.

   - On Dis hotter than
here - he said. - Improve
the temperature inside, we hereby
way, avoid shock exit.

   - I know the theory, but
this does not prevent me from sweating.

   - The best thing you can do now - it's sweat, - has noticed
Aydzhel.

   He looked like a glittering
a ball in shorts. Finished off the bottle
beer, he took from the fridge
another.

   - The best drink of beer.

   - No, thanks. I am afraid that
the last tissue to melt, and my
Kidney resurface outside. On Earth
we never ...

   - Remove luggage Dr. Morris - interrupted Aydzhel. - Is the 
Rion. Here is his signal.Ya will send the ship back as soon as 
we leave him, something no one would of the natives could not 
see him.


   When he opened the hatch, wave
air hit them outside, as
heat from the oven. The air was dry and
hot as the heat of the flames. Brian
I heard a cry in the dark Lea. He
helped her down. Still not
cooled sand burned his feet, even
through the footwear. Aydzhel came last, carrying a device call 
a ship. Once they left, he pressed a button and the ship quietly

slid vverh.Sveta stars were
enough to see around the sandy sea. On one of the
dunes seemed dark outline
sandy kara, which hum with heading towards them.

   Aydzhel stepped forward - and then
it all happened. He fell into the blue
a cloud of fire, his skin turned black.
A second blast struck the flame
on the car, out came the cry.
Brian fell at a moment when
explosion is not extinguished. Packages, boxes immediately flew 
to the side, He threw himself on the sand, dragging

a Lea. He hoped that she
smart enough to lie still.

   Electric flame again
erupted, covering the nodes that
he managed to send flying in storonu.Na
This time he was waiting for the shot and
tightly pressed to the ground. Throwing
a quick glance in the direction of punishment, he
accurately determined from shot
gun. Own a gun was
he has already in hand. When Aydzhel
handed him a gun, he had no questions attached to the belt, not
suspecting that it may
need it so soon.

   Holding the gun with both hands,
He carefully brought it out
place from which shooting. Explosion
explosive bullet shook vozduh.Zaryad found a purpose in light 
of the gap Brian saw someone silently jerked and rolled off

crest of the dunes.

   The next minute some
weight has fallen on his back,
and fire line girded him
throat. He usually fought quietly, but because they were 
competition. But Aydzhel, his friend is dead only a few seconds 
ago, and Brian felt his anger and embrace bol.Est many 
dangerous pranks such as smoking near fuel or popping fingers 
into the electrical outlet. But the attack on the winner of 
"twenty" is much more dangerous. With Brian grasped two people, 
but for him it did not matter.

The first died as soon as
steel claws winner found
his neck and a push to cut his main blood channels. Second time 
to cry, but died very quickly when those hands gripped his 
throat. 

   Crouching, almost on all fours, Brian quickly ran
around, holding his gun at the ready.
But others were not. Only when he
stumbled upon a soft body Lea
anger left him. Suddenly he
felt the pain and fatigue, sweat
streams flowed through his body, and breath with wheeze burst 
from him from the throat. Putting his gun in his holster, he 
felt the skull Lea and found abrasions on his temple. Her 
breasts regularly rose and fell. Apparently, she hit her head 
when he pushed her. And this, undoubtedly saved her life. Sowing

next, he relaxed and calmed
your breath. Become better if
Apart from a sore throat. His
fingers groped a thin lace on
neck with a thickening at the end. And with
the other end, hanging from his shoulder, too, was thickening, 
but around neck was a strip of pain. He took

a lace and examined him. This
was a solid thin fabric, like a flexible wire. Obviv
neck, she cut the skin and dug into the meat. She stopped the 
tension of his muscles. Contemptuously smile, Brian threw

lace into the darkness whence he came. Despite the 
understanding of futility of his act,

He leaned over the body Aydzhela.
One look was enough.

   Leah groaned. Brian quickly
rushed to the punishment. Stepping over
body at the door, he peered inside.
The driver also was dead, killed,
apparently, the same terrible lace, which was almost cut the 
throat of Brian. He carefully laid dead on the sand and closed 
his eyes full of horror. Taking flask, he returned to the Lea.


   - The head, I broke my head -
she whispered hoarsely.

   - No, it's just a bruise.
Drink some water, and you'll soon be better. Stay calm, all is 
over. You can rest.


   - Aydzhel dead! - Suddenly
remembering, "she cried. - They
kill him! What happened?

  She tensed, trying to get up
and he carefully nurtured it.

   - I'll tell vam.Vy just do not get up. Was zasada.Oni
Rion killed the driver and car, so
well as Aydzhela. They were three,
they are all now dead. I do not think
to close could be others, but if there were, I
hear. Now we'll wait a few minutes until you become
better, and go to square.

   - Bring back the ship! - Her voice sounded hysterical
notes. - We can not stay
here alone. We do not know where to go and what to do. Now 
Aydzhel dead, and all was lost. We must

fly away. There are things that sound hard, regardless of the 
tone, they are pronounced, and this

was one of them:

   - I'm sorry, Leah, but I
have to disappoint you, now
ship out of reach for us. Aydzhel killed from the ion gun and 
the device burned. All that we are now can do - is take the car 
and try to get to the city.

Nothing else we do. "

   She rose to her feet, without saying a word, and they went 
to the punishment. Reddish moon, who ascended above

dunes, was the only source of light that illuminates their path.
In her view, Brian saw a dark
a line across your back
wall car, and stopped. Could not understand, Leah asked him 
about because a sudden stop.


   Open motor vehicles
could only mean one thing, and when Brian looked inside, he 
already never doubted that he would see.

The attackers were agile
and intelligence. In the allotted
them a short time they had not
just remove the driver and try to deal with Brian,
but also to destroy the car. Red light reflected in broken
detail.

   - Yeah, - gloomily concluded
Brian, but, remembering his
companion, tried to hide their
concern:

   - I think we have to go
foot. This place is located about one hundred and fifty 
kilometers from the city Houvsad where we we need to get there. 
It seems to me we can ...


   - We're going to die! - A wave of hysteria, more and more
overcome by Lea. - The whole planet -
a deadly trap! Nothing
I do not have, let's go back to the ship!

   Brian did not try to comfort
it. He understood that this is one of
effects of stroke. Instead of comfort, he put her on the seat 
punishment and forced to rest, and the meanwhile, began to 
prepare for long march. So, at first

clothing. With each minute of air
became colder and colder, to the extent that dissipate daytime 
heat. Lea began tremble, and he took a few

things from her own bag and made to wear over
dresses.

   Managed to find a little bit.
Canteen, medical bag, found on the seat, Brian gently placed 
next to a broken machine. There were no maps, no

radio. Direction in this, devoid of any signs, the desert was 
determined, apparently, on a compass. Car was equipped with an 
electric gyrocompass, but now, when the machine was broken, he 
was absolutely useless.


   Remembering map of the planet, Brian figured in what 
direction must be in the city. Seeing

that traces of punishment go on
perfect straight line, he suggested
that car came straight out of the city,
based on the knowledge of the place of sunrise
red moon, he came to the conclusion that the directions should 
be punishment, and the intended direction of the city are the 
same. Thus they managed to find his way on the trail.


   And yet, while shlo.Emu wanted to bury Aydzhela and people 
from the car, found themselves victims of an ambush, but the 
night was too expensive. The only thing he could do - is to put 
three bodies in penalties, to protect them from predators 
disanskih. He locked the door cab and threw the key as far as 
possible into the darkness. Leah slept and he gently woke her 
up. 

   - Come on. We now have
a little walk.


     To be continued ...
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