"J. Robert King - Invasion Cycle 02 - Planeshift" - читать интересную книгу автора (King Robert J)in a one-two punch that sizzled Phyrexians to nothing and
cratered the sand into glass bowls. New power surged. Along every rivet and seam of Urza's titan engine, blue energy glowed. It swelled out to envelop the titan, the skyship, and its fleet. Through a glass dome, Urza was just visible in his pilot's harness. His form shimmeredтАФthe start of a planeswalk. Rings of disturbance spread out rapidly from him. The piloting mechanisms dissolved into fuzz. The armor shell went next. Weatherlight's hull glowed too. Even Gerrard at his gun, even Tahngarth, turned insubstantial. The mad world folded up around Weatherlight, her scrappy fleet, and Urza's titan engine. Koilos and its cockroach armies slid away into sudden creases in reality. The false dawn faded. The false world disintegrated. 15 Planeshift In their place swirled the Blind Eternities. It was a cloudy chaos, a space of shapeless energies and potentialities. Gerrard gripped the fire controls of his cannon and before, in Weatherlight's own planeshifts, but he'd never been dragged through. Urza Planeswalker and his creations hung for a moment in the void. Then chaos took form. Potentiality became actuality. True dawn broke over the ship. For a moment, all seemed blueтАФthe robin's-egg sky above and the sloshing sea below. The scene was marred by one black knot of swamp and moss and tree. It was an island, a rather small island, though growing larger all the while. Weatherlight and her titan stowaway were plunging down toward it. Gerrard growled. Into the prow speaking tube, he shouted, "Sisay, evasive!" Her voice echoed back, "Hang on!" Weatherlight's engines flared. She yawed suddenly, jiggling the titan's arm. With angry insistence, the ship rolled. Sea replaced sky. Urza half-flipped. Nerveless, his metallic arm lost hold of the ship. Weatherlight's airfoils slapped together. Fire flared behind. Like a cork from a bottle, Weatherlight shot from Urza's grasp. The ship surged up into azure heavens. Urza's titan engine meanwhile plunged toward azure |
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