"Leo Frankowski - Stargard 2 - High-Tech Knight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Frankowski Leo)

"How can there be a mistake? You replaced the asshole I used to work for. Not that I really had anything
personal against her, but you'll understand that after fifty years with only one person to talk to, you just
naturally start to hate each other's guts."

"Anyway, the computers don't make mistakes, so you're supposed to be here because you've arrived at
the proper time and in a body properly tailored for our research."

"This body!" She bawled, "I used to be beautiful!"

"All part of the high price of science," he said. But she had pulled herself into a fetal position and was
sobbing louder. "Hey, you're serious, aren't you? You actually didn't volunteer for this post?"

"No! I mean, yes I didn't volunteer. I was in twentieth-century Poland. I spent one day on my new
assignment and the monitors came and I woke up here! I'm in the Historical Corps. I don't know
anything about anthropology!"

" Why, those filthy bastards..."

"Yeah," she said, grateful for any sympathy.

"...sending me a totally untrained recruit! My God! That means..." He stooped down and found a sliver
of bone on the cave floor. He grabbed her right hand.

"This doesn't hurt. You won't feel it at all." He slipped the bone under her index fingernail and moved it
sideways. She stared openmouthed as he repeated the operation on her left hand.

"What..."

"They were both turned off, thank God. Look. You have some fairly powerful equipment built into that
little body. Your right index finger contains a temporal sword. With it, you can cut a tree in half at six
paces. Your left contains a fire-starter. They can save your life, but if you don't know how to use them,
they can kill you. Or me!"

"There's more?"

"Some recorders, communicators, beacons, and so on. But that can wait. I want to find out what you're
doing here." He squatted in front of a large flat rock by the cave wall. He pressed four nondescript spots
on the rock. Glowing white letters appeared in the air before him.

READY

He started tapping the blank rock as though it was a typewriter keyboard.

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