By Diane Duane
In an alternate-world l. a., prosecutor/psychic Lee Enfield and her companion, Gelert, examine the homicide of an elf. They quickly demonstrate a dangerous community of ties between geared up crime, multinational businesses, and planetary governments of the Seven Worlds--all operating jointly at the "ethnic cleansing" of elves from the trade international of Alfheim.
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The Alfen walked away. Lee checked out him idly as he went; he used to be as ordinary too good-looking to be believed, in addition to tall, radiantly blond, big-shouldered and narrow-waisted, although no longer an excessive amount of so—a wrestler's construct. What i need to grasp is, the place in that uniform may possibly he be hiding a weapon? Gelert stuck her glance. "In the marketplace for a 'professional boyfriend'? " he acknowledged, pulling his grin wider than ordinary. Lee shook her head. now not an Alfen one, she acknowledged silently down their hyperlink. "You certain? He may possibly glance ornamental drowsing around the threshold... " "Gelert... " Lee acknowledged. Their beverages arrived. Lee took her xoco and tasted it cau-tiously; she had no self belief within the meals the following anymore, now not after that piece of fruit again within the lodge, and he or she did not want to be taken without warning. "It might make Matt crazy," Gelert acknowledged, bending his head to the bowl that were wear the facet tray for him. "Matt," Lee stated below her breath. "Please do not point out him instantaneously. " She was once puzzling over how she was once going to determine whatever invaluable in any respect if the Alfen saved hauling them from position to put prior to she had an opportunity to seem demanding at whatever. How did I allow you to inveigle me into this, Matt? I swear, once we get domestic, i will take it from your cover ... the matter was once, she knew she would not there have been too many stories of him mendacity again opposed to the pillows within the early morning, lazy, smiling tenderly at her... Lee cursed herself inwardly and appeared south out the window, prior to them, towards the very mild curvature of the earth that hid their vacation spot. The flight used to be as brief as Gelert had anticipated. that they had infrequently spent fifteen mins cruising supersonic sooner than the send shook with subsonic re-insertion. It used to be nonetheless unusual to do it in utter silence, with the exception of the roar of air prior the craft's hull, or even that used to be muted to a faint demure speeding sound like air-conditioning. one other know-how they have declined to proportion with the remainder of us. i ponder, did they get it from the Xainese?. .. For Xaihon was once as protecting of its universe's monopoly on area go back and forth and house applied sciences as Alfheim was once of fairy gold. in all likelihood those cultures have larger grounds for figuring out one another than the remainder of us know... They have been losing right into a panorama of mountains tall adequate to be snowcapped even at the present of 12 months, in those latitudes; Alfheim's model of the Alps. the place in Lee's global these mountains have been as jam-packed with the marks of civiliza-tions as wherever else, now she appeared down out of the win-dow and observed no signal of roads or habitations, not anything at all—a white waste coated the following and there with eco-friendly valleys, however the valleys have been empty. at the southern facet of the nice Alpine watershed, although, the image started to swap as their craft dropped reduce. the nature of the mountains replaced, too; they turned reduce, the valleys wider and greener, and now symptoms of lifestyles started to appear—small good-looking towns, valleys huge sufficient for cultivation, roads winding one of the peaks. after which, unexpectedly, the nature of the mountains replaced.