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

handsome young man, not a great deal older than them-
selves, perhaps as old as their sister's friend Calvin, who
was in graduate school. Perhaps in this place, wherever it
was, everything was in miniature.

"There aren't many mammoths left," Japheth ex-
plained. "I'm a good dowser, but mammoths are very fine
(or scenting water, and Higgaion is the best of all." He
patted the little animal's head. "So I borrowed him from
Grandfather Lamech, and together we found a good
source of water, but I'm afraid it's too far from the oasis
to be much use."

"Thank you for explaining," Sandy said, then turned to
Dennys. "Do you think we're dreaming?"

"No. We came home from hockey practice. We made
sandwiches. We went into the lab to find the Dutch cocoa.
We messed around with Dad's experiment-in-progress. We
were stupid beyond belief. But it isn't a dream."

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"I'm glad to hear you say that," Japheth said. "I was
beginning to wonder, myself. I thought I might be dream-
ing, because of the stone hitting my head in the earth-


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quake."

"It was an earthquake?" Sandy asked.

Japheth nodded. "They come quite often. The seraphim
tell us that things aren't settled yet."

"So maybe this is a young planet." Dennys sounded
hopeful.

Japheth asked, "Where have you come from, and where
are you going?"

"Take me to your leader," Sandy murmured.

Dennys nudged him. "Shut up."

Sandy said, "We're from planet earth, late twentieth
century. We got here by accident, and we don't know