"Keith Laumer - Bolos 8 - Bolo Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Laumer Keith)

"I thought I just saved your life."

"You don't understand," she said, opening her eyes. "I want to die...."

"I'm sorry. I know how you feel, Miss Barstowe. Believe me, I know! But I couldn't just stand by
and watch Hector blow you away."

"I just... I just don't know if I can steel myself to try again. It took days to work up... the
courage."

"Not a problem. Killing yourself doesn't take nearly as much courage as deciding to keep on
living."

"Who... who are you? Are you free? No, wait. I've seen you in the camp."


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"Jaime Graham," he said. "Block Seven, Group Thirty-one."

She nodded. "I'm Block Four, Group Twenty-five."

"Over on the other side of the barracks." Jaime wasn't sure how many slaves there were now, in
all. New ones were brought in occasionally as they were rounded up outside the devastation that
was Celeste, and those in the camp tended to die at an appalling rate. The best estimates, though,
held that there were between five and seven thousand people crowded into the slave camp... far too
many for any one person to have gotten to know individually, or even to have seen them all. Still,
Shari's face was familiar, and he was sure he'd crossed paths with her before, possibly at the
chow line, possibly in the dig.

William H.Keith, Jr.

"So what are you doing out here?"

"Like I said, talking to my friend, here."

Her eyes widened. "You were with the Bolo Corps! Before The Killing!"

He shook his head. "No. I wish I had been. It would make understanding this big guy a lot easier."
'

"Oh. You didn't know Captain Fowler, then."

"Captain Fowler?"

"Jeff Fowler? He was the Bolo's human counterpart. The commander.'"