"Continuing Time - 01 - Emerald Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moran Daniel Keys)

Amnier did not answer. There was a silence that continued until Suzanne left her
work station and returned to where they waited. Amnier sat with his eyes
unfocused, looking off into a distance that did not exist; Kalharri stood, eyes
fixed on AmnierТs face. Neither saw what they looked upon.
УMalko?Ф Amnier looked up at the woman, flushed with some strong emotion, and
thought again, You are so very lovely. Montignet continued, УWe have one. ItТs
going to live.Ф
УFascinating,Ф murmured Amnier. He looked down at the steel stairway upon which
he sat. When he looked up again there was a flat snapping sound, like a whip
being cracked. For the merest instant Amnier stared directly at the flat, black
cutout of a man, merely the outline of a shape. I doubt that he ever again fully
believed his own eyes after that; Camber Tremodian was gone before Amnier could
be certain of what he had seen.
None of the others appeared to have noticed. УWhich one is it?Ф asked Malko
quietly.
УNumber fifty-five. Series C, number C; weТve been calling it Charlie Chan.Ф
УDo you know its sex yet?Ф
УMale.Ф
Malko Kalharri had not yet turned away from Darryl Amnier; now he came closer,
squatted until his eyes were on a level with AmnierТs. УI think we shall name
him Carl Е Castanaveras, perhaps. Yes.Ф
Amnier blinked. His mind seemed to be elsewhere. УOh?Ф
УYes,Ф said Malko Kalharri, УCastanaveras. I think that is an appropriate name.Ф

Three days after my life brushed against his, Jorge Rodriguez died of radiation
burns.
We have kept the costs of the battle down, Camber and I; Jorge Rodriguez was
only the third human being in sequential Time to die in one of the battles of
the Time Wars.
It might have comforted him to know that.
Or not.




INTERLUDE:
2030-2062
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And so three decades passed.
When Carl Castanaveras was still a very young boy, before puberty turned him
into a Peaceforcer weapon, an officer of the United Nations Peace Keeping Force
once asked him what he wished to do with his life.
The question startled the boy. He had been raised by doctors and scientists and
Malko Kalharri; the PeaceforcerТs question was not the sort of thing anyone had
ever asked of him before.
After a momentТs consideration he said, УAm I supposed to do something with it?Ф
There can be good mistakes. Fact and truth and history are rarely related. The
facts are these.
Carl Castanaveras was born on the eighteenth of September in the year 2030. He
was named after a soldier who, fighting for his country, died during the