"Madeline L' Engle - Time Quartet 04 - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

never thought of that Dutch cocoa."

Dennys pulled off his heavy cable-knit sweater. Licked
his dry lips- Moaned. "Lemonade."

Sandy, too, stripped off his sweater. "We got what we
asked for, didn't we? Heat. Low humidity. Sparse popu-
lation."

Dennys looked around, squinting against the glare.
"Sparse wasn't meant to mean nobody."

Sandy unbuttoned his plaid flannel shirt. "I thought we
asked for a beach."

"Not on Dad's gizmo we didn't. Just sparse population.
Do you suppose we've blown ourselves onto a dead planet?
One where the sun is going into its red-giant phase before
it blows up?"

Despite the intense heat. Sandy shivered, glanced at the
sun, then quickly away. "I think the sun in its red-giant
phase would be bigger. This sun doesn't look any larger
than our own sun in movies set in deserts."

"Do you suppose it is our own sun?" Dennys asked
hopefully.

Sandy shrugged. "We could be anywhere. Anywhere in
the universe. If we were going to play with that doggone
keyboard, we should have been more specific. I wish we'd
just settled for Baki or Fiji, beautiful people or no."


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"I'd just as soon see a beautiful person. Right now. I
wish we hadn't done whatever it is we've done." Dennys
pulled off his cotton turtleneck, stripping down to his
white briefs and tank top.

Sandy stood on one leg to start pulling off his warmly
lined pants, glanced again at the fierce sun, then quickly
closed his eyes. "They'll miss us when they get back from
the dentist."