"Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Dushau Trilogy 03 - Outreach" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lichtenberg Jacqueline)

death-trauma during the battle against the Imperial troops who had chased him and Krinata to this world.
And then the pentad remaining had accepted Jindigar and Krinata to become Jindigar's Oliat. Darllanyu
had endured more than anyone could expect, and that had catapulted her into Renewal. If she said she
couldn't, she couldn't.

Jindigar tore his eyes from the white circle and gestured his acceptance of her evaluation. He had to go
on, with or without an Oliat. He could not reach Completion if he abandoned his responsibilities. So she
would have to find another mateтАФthis time. "I want you, Dar, more than I've ever wanted anyone. But
I'll arrange a Dismissal."

The loss heavy in him, he turned to the Oliat room where Krinata lay. Zannesu was wiping Krinata's face
with a cold towel while Eithlarin massaged her feet to stimulate her natural disease defenses.

"She's worse. Did you get it?" asked Zannesu.
Jindigar produced the injector and the medical kit and let Eithlarin administer the injection. "Dar is
resigning."

That created a stir. The barricades Jindigar had erected to partition the Oliat were holdingтАФalmost too
well. Venlagar wilted onto his bed. Of them all, he was the farthest from active Renewal, which was why
Jindigar had placed him as Receptor. "Then we can't go on," sighed Venlagar.

"Not as an Oliat," replied Jindigar.

"You going to try to hold a hexad?" asked Llistyien, her incredulity leaking through the barriers to
Jindigar.

"It does sound absurd," agreed Jindigar.

"How long can a Center work so unbalanced?" asked Venlagar.

"Ordinarily, quite a while," supplied Zannesu. "But not under these circumstances."

Jindigar watched him but didn't ask if that meant he'd not stay with a Center who was trying it.

Venlagar asked, "Can we find a Holot infant food that won't attract clickerswarms fast enough so you
can rejoin Dar?"

"I doubt it. A hexad isn't as fast as an Oliat."

From the doorway Darllanyu spoke, lips compressed. "Using pensone, I can make itтАФ-at least to find
them some food."

Jindigar let the shock wash through him, hardly daring to let himself shudder. Pensone would suppress
Renewal, and they did have some. But the side effectsтАФDar might be rendered permanently sterile.
She'd surely have trouble conceiving or carrying to term this Renewal, for pensone would leave her less
able to absorb nutrients and could cut centuries off her lifespan, if she survived the withdrawal of the
drug. Psychotic or suicidal behavior was not unusual when going off pensone. And those were the mild
effects. "That stuff is poison!" Somebody whose life was Complete might dare it, but... Jindigar admitted
to himself that he'd waited six thousand years for a child of hersтАФhe could wait another thousand if he
had to, but the idea of losing the chance altogether hurt too much.