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

"You don't think it was on fire?"

"No. 1 think we opened the door and we were here."

"What about the mist?"

"And the sonic boom?"

"And what about Dad's computer?"

"Uh-oh. What're we going to do?" Dennys's voice started
out in the bass, soared, and cracked to a piercing treble.



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"Don't panic," Sandy warned, but his voice trembled.

Both boys looked around wildly. The brazen sunlight
beat down on them. After the cold of snow and ice, the
sudden heat was shocking. Small particles of mica in the
sand caught the light and blazed up at them. "Hey."
Dennys's voice cracked again. "What're we going to do?"

Sandy tried to speak calmly. "We're the ones who do
things, remember?"

"We just did something." Dennys was bitter. "We just
blew ourselves here, wherever here is."

Sandy agreed. "Stupid. We were stupid, mucking around
with an experiment-in-progress."

"Only we didn't know it was in progress."

"We should have stopped to think."

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Dennys looked around at sky and sand, both shimmer-
ing with heat. "What do you suppose Dad was up to? If we
knew thatтАФ"

"Space travel. Tessenng. Getting past the speed of light.
You know that." Anxiety made Dennys sharp.

The sun beat down on Sandy's head, so that he reached
up and wiped sweat from around his eyes. "I wish we'd