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

From the look in her eyes, he guessed she was as surprised to
see him as he was to see her.

She was pointing a pistol right at his face.

"Don't shoot," he said, aiming at her chest. "Move a muscle
and I'll have to kill you."

She frowned and made an ugly sound deep in her throat. He
saw her hands tighten around the gun. He didn't want to shoot
but neither did he want to die. Someone was shouting his name
from behind. "Waller, don't! Waller, dropтАФ!"

Startled, the woman fired. Her bullet went wide, piercing the
wall and ricocheting wildly.

He got ready to shoot himself.

But he never did. What happened next he didn't understand
at all. The world jumped. It was as if someone had jerked a rug
out from under it. The world jumped and he fell. Down, down.
Down into forever.


CHAPTER THREE
Calvin Waller first awoke to a sight he had last seen so many
weeks before that he wouldn't believe his eyes. He shut them.
Blinking rapidly, shaking his head, he finally dared to look again.
The sight hadn't changed. There above his head, drifting gently
in the breeze, hung a bright patch of thick greenery. No, no, this
just couldn't be. A green tree in the savannahтАФimpossible.

He sat up and saw, standing beside him, a massive green pine
tree.

Nor was that all. He turned his head. There was another tree,
and another, and another. This was a forest. The heavy green
foliage nearly hid the sun and sky from view. The ground was
covered everywhere with fallen needles and leaves. He had
awakened in the middle of a forest. But that just could not be.

Then the pain struck him. Wincing, he glanced down, seeing
the jagged hole torn in his shirt, the bloody wound exposed
beneath. Tenderly, he examined his arm. The blood had dried.
He must have been out cold for some time. The wound itself did
not appear too dangerous, a hole in the flesh. He would have to
have it tended to. But where? Was there a doctor in this forest?
Or anyone?