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

"We were busy stuffing our faces."

Dennys crossed the hall and opened the kitchen door
and was met with a blast of heat. "Hey!" He Cried to step
back, but Sandy was on his heels.

"Fire!" Sandy yelled. "Get the fire extinguisher!"

"Too late! We'd better get out andтАФ" Dennys heard the
kitchen door slam behind them. "We've got to get outтАФ"

Sandy yelled, "I can't find the fire extinguisher!"

"I can't find the wallsтАФ" Dennys groped through a per-
vasive mist, his hands touching nothing.

Came a great sonic boom.

Then absolute silence.

Slowly the mist began to clear away, to dissipate.

"Heyt" Sandy's changing voice cracked and soared.
"What's going on?"

Dennys's equally cracking voice followed. "Where on
earth ... What's happened ..."

"What was that explosion?"

"Hey!"

They looked around to see nothing familiar. No kitchen
door. No kitchen. No fireplace with its fragrant logs. No

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table, with its pot of brightly blooming geraniums. No
ceiling strung with rows of red peppers and white garlic.
No floor with the colorful, braided rugs. They were stand-
ing on sand, burning white sand. Above them, the sun was
in a sky so hot that it was no longer blue but had a bronze
cast. There was nothing but sand and sky from horizon to
horizon.

"Is the house all right?" Sandy's voice shook.

"I don't think we went into the house at all..."