"Gordon Eklund - Falling Toward Forever" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eklund Gordon)

rose quickly toward the darkening sky. They were sitting in an
open cleared space between the trees.

With the fire safely lit, Waller settled back and turned to the
woman. Before he could speak, she frowned sourly and said, "If
you think I'm going to sit out here all night long, you're nuts."

"Do you plan on taking a stroll?" he asked.

"I don't know what I want to do. I know I'm thirsty and I'm
starved. That water you've got is dreadful and I haven't eaten a
bite all day." So far, she had willingly revealed little more than
that. Her name, she had admitted, was Sondra Wyler. She was
an American. Waller had also told her his name.

"I'm afraid I can't help you," he said.

"Then do you mind if I help myself?" She had also continued
to claim total ignorance as to where they were and how they had
got here.

He smiled. "Not at all. If you want to go, then go. I promise
not to twist your arm."

"You want me to go out there?" She gazed in horror at the
surrounding forest. "Alone? Unarmed?"

"It's your choice."

"I think you're mad."

He laughed. "I think you are if you expect me to go out there."

"You're afraid." She smirked. "That's what it isтАФ you're a
coward. What is it you find so scary?"

"The same things you should fear: the ones I don't
understand."

"You don't understand any of this?"

"No, I don't. Do you?"

She shook her head wearily. "No."

"Then our best bet is to sit right here, at least until morning.
Who knows? With a fire, maybe somebody will drop by and spill
the whole story and we'll discover it's really something simple
after all. I don't think we have to worry about food. In a woods
like this, there must be plenty of wild things to eatтАФroots and