"Jerry Davis - Strong Metallic Arm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davis Jerry)

the head, boom, that's it. You'll feel nothing. The signal block
will come off in the water, and they'll find your body. You wake
up in a new body. Ta-da! Everything's better."
Erin dove to the right of him, trying to get past to the
front of the boat. He grabbed her, his arms around her stomach,
and lifted her over his head. She struggled in blind terror,
kicking, squirming. She hit him somewhere that stunned him. He
dropped her to the deck and staggered backward, groaning. Erin hit
the deck hard, landing on her wrists, and one twisted back with a
sickening crack. Pain shot up her arm like fire.
She rolled over onto her back, holding her injured wrist
against her chest. Erin had never broken a bone before, she was
shocked by how much pain was involved. She accessed her interface,
chose body controls, and began raising her pain threshold.
Duane recovered, and came toward her.
"No!" she screamed.
"Come on, you bitch!" He bent down to pick her up.
Erin placed both feet against his chest and shoved with her
legs. He flew backwards, a surprised look on his face, hit the
edge of the starboard deck and tumbled over into the water. There
was a large splash, and Erin saw water droplets spray up in a
fountain and come raining down. She thought immediately of the
lure, and that it would get him. Panting, she crawled to the
starboard side on knees and elbows and looked over.
He was swimming in place, looking up at her.
"Why did you do it!" she screamed at him. "Why?!"
"It'll get me, now."
"Oh, God," she said. "Why?"
"I suppose I deserve it. I deserve to die."
She was crying. She couldn't believe this it was all so
insane. She didn't want him to die. "Why did you want to kill me?"
"I don't want to kill you."
"You don't, you why did you do this? You broke my wrist!"
"I'm sorry." He looked up at her with his wide brown eyes.
Erin extended her good hand out to him. "Hurry," she said.
He grabbed her arm, put his feet against the boat and pulled
her headlong into the water. The coldness of sudden immersion
shocked her, her body going stiff as she sank. Currents pulled her
from side to side, twisting her around. She opened her eyes,
sought the surface. Long, pastel green and blue streaks of light
surround an area of black. In her panic she couldn't make any
sense of what she was seeing.
It was the bottom of the boat. It was sliding away, the


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currents carrying her along faster than above. Erin fought the
shock off, forced herself to swim even as terrible shivers like