"Ardath Mayhar - Khi to Freedom" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mayhar Ardath)

At last Khi-Sang said to me, тАЬWe are not strangers to the Ginli, Hale
Enbo. But you must realize that this little people cannot endanger us. We
will fold them away, if there is threat from them. Even the Varlian have
learned this from usтАж why do your people not use the technique?тАЭ
тАЬIтАЩve never heard of it,тАЭ I answered. тАЬWe only know the ways to kill our
enemies, when they threaten us. Nothing that I ever read mentioned
folding away inconvenient citizens. How do you do that?тАЭ
I felt a concentration of energies inside my head. Then it withdrew, and
Khi-Sang said regretfully, тАЬThe parts of your mind that can manage such
techniques are unused. Reflecting, no doubt, the distrust your kind feels
for non-physical things. It requires much exercise, much practice, great
flexibility, to learn the non-material ways. We will teach you, in time. That
is the reason for your presence on this world at this time. Yet at the
moment you are incapable of learning or understanding or using the
things that you must know.тАЭ
тАЬThe reason whyтАжIтАЩm here because of a series of random happenings!тАЭ I
interjected. тАЬThereтАЩs no way in which I could have been finagled into being
here.тАЭ
Khi-Sang glimmered softly, and I thought that she was laughing.
Khi-Lohm raised a hand. The lights dimmed.
Khi-Rehm said, тАЬWe have accomplished much in a short time. Now you
must rest. Sleep is a need of both your kinds, and we must look afar.
Through the diamond wall. Into the affairs of others greater than we.тАЭ
With gestures of agreement, the two Varlian looked about for
someplace to rest. I felt terribly sleepy, too, and we all welcomed the
sudden appearance from thin air of cushioned couches along the side wall.
I was asleep before the Khi had left the chamber.
VII.
 Khi-Sang
It has been long since the Hril have used us as their instruments. Even
to those who, as do we, exist outside the ordinary spaces and carnate
delusions of time, it has been long. It delights us that they still have need
of our abilities. But, indeed, in no other way might they achieve the
education of this being whom they have brought into our hands. They
would be totally beyond his unaided perceptions.
We find it disturbing, however, that the Hril have encountered a thing
that they cannot master unaided. When those who are the authors of our
being are outmatched, we who are the children of their thought are made
to feel impotent, indeed. The notion that one who is still confined in flesh
must be the ultimate instrument against that remote yet very real enemy
fills us with unease.
He, however, is delightful. Unlike many of his kind whom we have
observed from a distance, he has the straightforward and unselfconscious
honesty of a childтАж that wedded to an excellent mind that has experienced
much, studied much, and made good use of all. And his pure joy in such
matters as eating well and sleeping soundly and looking about at the
beauties of the world remind us of our own remote past, when we, too,
were bound into three dimensions.
We have thought much about the best way in which to teach this large
brown man the things he must know if he is to save the Ginli from their