"Brin, David - Uplift 02 - Startide Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brin David)

Echoes spread from his brow and diffracted about the small chamber. The notes drifted over one another, overlapping softly in faint whines and basso growls. They created a sonic structure, a template of otherness. The right combinations, he knew, would make the walls themselves seem to disappear.

Deliberately, he peeled away the duty-rigor of Keneenk -- welcoming a small, trusted portion of the Whale Dream.

* When the patterns --
In the cycloid

* Call in whispers --
Soft remembered

* Murmuring of --
Songs of dawning

* And of the Moon --
The sea-tide's darling

* Then the patterns --
In the cycloid

* Call in whispers --
Soft remembered . . . *

The desk, the cabinets, the walls, were covered under false sonic shadows. His chant began to open on its own accord a rich and very physical poetry of crafted reflections.

Floating things seemed to drift past, tiny tail-flicks of schools of dream creatures. The echoes opened up space around him, as if the waters went on forever.

* And the Dream Sea,
Everlasting

* Calls in whispers
Soft remembered . . . *

Soon he felt a presence nearby, congealing gradually out of reflections of sound.

She formed slowly next to him as his engineer's consciousness let go . . . the shadow of a goddess. Then Nukapai floated beside him . . . a ghost of ripples, ribbed by motes of sound. The black sleekness of her body passed back into the darkness, unhindered by a bulkhead that seemed no longer there.

Vision faded. The waters darkened all around Creideiki, and Nukapai became more than just a shadow, a passive recipient of his song. Her needle teeth shone, and she sang his own sounds back to him.

* With the closeness --
Of the waters

* In an endless --
Layer of Dreaming

* As the humpback --
Older sibling

* Sings songs to the --
Serious fishes