By Patricia A. McKillip
Kyreol's small international starts on the Face, a excessive rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a sequence of rapids. every year, her humans rejoice Moon-Flash—a spark of sunshine that turns out to return from and cross into the moon, a logo of existence and pleasure. whilst a mysterious stranger arrives, Kyreol desires to understand extra approximately him, in addition to the Moon-Flash, and shortly she and her formative years buddy Terje go away their domestic to appear for solutions. these solutions will pluck Kyreol from Riverworld and remodel her lifestyles forever—by fast-forwarding her right into a destiny she will be able to slightly comprehend.
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For that subject, so did I. ” besides, she extra to herself, what approximately Joss Tappan? What if he comes the following? Joss Tappan isn’t fearful of alien cultures. He’d visit the town. He may perhaps already be there. Kyreol’s eyes went to the torn, damaged hull of the send. The powdery sand was once already packing opposed to it. a section of torn textile fluttered inside of, then was once nonetheless. “What,” she whispered, “about the lifeless? ” Her argumentative voice, unexpectedly silent, provided no suggestion. Water, earth, deep space—these issues authorised the lifeless. yet the following, there has been merely the dry dirt of an alien international. Kyreol scooped up a handful of it, frowning, and enable it sift via her palms. “They have to move home,” she made up our minds eventually. “Meanwhile—” Her eyes burning, her jaw set tough opposed to her loneliness and worry, she coated them as most sensible she may possibly, defensive them from the sand and the surprising evening. Then she shed the spacesuit and stuffed a backpack with nutrition and water, additional outfits, a com-crystal, a laser, and bizarre issues that regarded beneficial: a bit of thick twine, a desk knife, a bar of cleaning soap, a tiny tape recorder, a ebook she were interpreting, her comb, a feather amulet Nara had given her for success, a nose-filter and a couple of goggles, and a mild, voluminous raincoat that can double as a tent if the airborne dirt and dust storms turned very unlikely. The pack, fats as a sausage, dragged at her shoulder. this can be silly, she suggestion. i will stroll to town in a number of hours. yet nonetheless she took the pack. town used to be a lot higher and farther than she had guessed. It grew very slowly as she toiled towards it. She stopped to devour eventually, studied it whereas she chewed. a number of hours later, she needed to cease back, because the white urban melted right into a hazy, pink twilight. She woke groggily within the morning, sore and dusty. nonetheless not anything moved within the brilliant urban, or within the sky, or within the land round it. have been they humans, just like the Burrowers, who couldn’t endure gentle? No, she determined eventually. humans delicate to mild didn't construct towns below a sizzling sunlight. Then what? She swallowed drily, uneasy with the concept that crossed her brain. She shouldered her pack back and rose. eventually she reached the sting of the nice shadow spilling around the bone-dry floor. She stopped, drained, sweating, her face faded with dirt and stared up on the sheer bluff of stone. Then she regarded down at her toes. No different footprints. She slid her arms over her mouth, unexpectedly panicked, who prefer extraterrestrial beings to the cold silence of the city’s vacancy. “There needs to be anyone! ” she whispered. “There needs to be! ” She started to stroll back, doggedly, into the shadow. the town was once like not anything she had ever visible. tremendous but translucent, just like the Dome, it were outfitted with an mind-blowing measure of class. Stairways wandered up and down the partitions; chambers she concept should be elevators clung to numerous degrees like bubbles. the nice domes and cylinders needs to apartment turbines, energy vegetation, factories, air docks. If the folk who outfitted the town had traveled through land, their roads had lengthy been buried lower than the dirt.