"Julian May - The Golden Torc" - читать интересную книгу автора (May Julian)

In the Milieu, all persons with great mental powerтАФhuman
and nonhumanтАФwere bound in a benevolent Unity, incapable
of any selfish action that would harm civilization. But bereft
of the Unity ...
Elizabeth felt as though she were the only mature adult cast
away in a world of childrenтАФand malicious children at that,
who would seek to use her. This must not be permitted.
Elizabeth was roused from her reverie of despair by the
necessity of rescuing Sukey. This young woman, who also had
redactive power, had gone snooping into the mind of uncon-scious
Stein. Discovering his longstanding psychic hurts, Sukey
tried inexpertly to drain them. Only Elizabeth's intervention
prevented the deeply traumatized Viking from crushing his
would-be healer into imbecility. Temporarily postponing non-involvement,
Elizabeth began to teach Sukey proper techniques
so that she would not harm herself or the man she was growing
to love. Before the trip south concluded, Sukey was able to
bring Stein genuine relief from mental dysfunctions that had
plagued him from childhood. Stein in turn reached out and
pledged himself to her. Their two minds, operating on the most
intimate telepathic level of his gray, and her silver, torc, took
each other for husband and wife. Such a union, Creyn had
warned, was forbidden to silver-torc women on pain of death;.but the lovers hid their secret well.
No one knew the truth but
Elizabeth.
The madcap Aiken Drum's reaction to his new mind-power and the dazzling splendor of the Many-
Colored Land was pro-foundly
different. He gloried in both. In Roniah, he was the
star of a rowdy debauch and the darling of insatiable Tanu
women. Later, he and his new crony, Raimo, assumed the
illusory forms of butterflies and took an impromptu tour of
the riverside city. This ended with the partial destruction of the Roniah dock as part of a
metapsychic practical joke.
Creyn programmed what he thought was a firm curb upon
the trickster's metafunctions. However, as the journey length-ened,
it became evident that AikenтАФself-confessed Connect-icut
Yankee in King Arthur's court, mechanical genius, recidivist
delinquent, charmer, wearer of a golden suit with a hundred
pocketsтАФwas something far out of the ordinary run of latent
metapsychic. The mental powers that had been chained in his
skull for twenty-one years of misspent youth were of incredible


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potential. Elizabeth saw this clearlyтАФand so, to a more limited
extent, did Creyn.
The boat carrying the travelers plunged over a torrential
slope, la Glissade Formidable, into the prehistoric Mediterra-nean