"FWLS2" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

"We are Escher," Swift said calmly.

"It is Escher," the dragon slightly repeated.

"We are welcome here. This is our home. Nothing is out of
the ordinary."

"You are welcome here. This is your home. Nothing is out
of the ordinary," it said. Seeing no more danger, it floated
back up and sank into the silvery surface of the ceiling.

"Jedi mind trick," I joked. "Whoever progged ya had style."

"He was a fat, bloated fool who enjoyed playing with people
as if they were toys," Swift said.

"Yeah, well, he had style anyway," I said, walking along the
warped hall to the other end. I giggled to myself as I noticed
that both Swift and Gosub seemed upside down from here, even
though my mind told me they weren't.

"You guys comin' or not?" I asked.

*

I really should have had Swift monitor the hallway for
unexpected passages, since all three of us fell through a
trapdoor in the wall at the end of the hall. What my inner ear
didn't like was the sensation of falling sideways, despite
gravity being in the normal down direction.

I hit the water with a digitized KERSPLASH, smacked into the
plaster bottom (argh. Negative feedback really sucks) and bobbed
back up in time to watch my comrades hit the water too.

"What the heck--?"

"Waterfall ahead!" I shouted helpfully as I went over the
end, the cascading water drenching my clothes before I hit
another flume below it.

"Gurgle," Gosub commented after landing. "What the hell is
this?"

"You've never seen any old MC Escher work, have you? Old
Terra?"

"No," Gosub said, bobbing as the water carried us along a
number of right-angle turns.