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THE BOHR MAKER

by Linda Nagata




A Bantam Spectra Book / April 1995


Copyright ┬й 1995 by Linda Nagata


ISBN 0-553-56925-2




To my husband Ronnie,
whose support and confidence

made this book possible.




CHAPTER
1



Just past dawn a dead man came floating down the river. The current carried him under the old
river-straddling warehouse, where he fetched up against one of the fluff booms Arif had strung between
the rotting pilings. Phousita found him when she came to gather the night's harvest of fluff. He floated
facedown. His head had wedged under the fluff boom; his long black hair swayed like a silk veil in the
current.

Phousita glanced nervously overhead. The trapdoor that opened onto the main floor of the
abandoned warehouse hung open. She debated with herself a moment. It would be so easy to slip into
the water, ease the dead man's body off the boom and guide him back into the current before Arif
discovered he was here. She would never have to worry about who he might have been or what bitter
spirits still haunted his flesh. Let someone else farther down the river have him!

But her conscience wouldn't let her do it. Even in the dusky light under the river warehouse she
could tell he'd been a wealthy man. Such fine clothes! And he might have money on him, jewels. The clan