"Raymond Jones - Renegades of Time" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jones Raymond)

"We may never leave here," Tamarina said. "We may spend all
the rest of our lives here. She walked a little way from Joe and
glanced up through the branches of the enormous trees of the
rain forest and shook her head with an attitude of resignation.
"But we will try to get away."

Joe still felt mentally numb from shock of his sudden plunge
into these strange surroundings and his lack of understanding of
where he was. "How did we get here?" he demanded.

"You createdтАФor, rather, becameтАФan interference in the
temporal channel. But you wouldn't understand any of that. Ask
your friend, Bill Bradley тАФif you ever see him again," she added
bitterly. She started walking away. After a moment Joe slogged
through the swampy underfooting after her.

"You're right," Joe said when he caught up with her. "I don't
understand any of this. How about trying to answer this
question: Where are we?"

She laughed now for the first time. "That's easy! In your
language you say: 'Your guess is as good as mine.' Your guess is
as good as mine. I don't know where we are. Not the foggiest, the
faintest notion."

Joe stopped. The rain pelted the leaves of the dense growth on
all sides with a flat, spattering sound. Somewhere, at an
enormous distance, there was the sound of the cry of some great
animal.

Tamarina had continued walking, and now she turned back
with an expression of irritation at Joe's stupidity in not following
her. He looked at her across the distance between them. The rain
slapping on the leaves, the strange forest growth about them, the
wet golden-haired girl who didn't know what the word "friend"
meantтАФthen he asked the question he had been afraid to ask.

"Is this somewhere on Earth?"

"That's one thing I am sure of. We are certainly not on your
Earth."

"The Solar System?"

"Do any of your planets resemble this?"

He let it go. "Then where?" he said.

"I told you I don't know! A light yearтАФa thousand light