"Mount Charity by Edgar Pangborn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nebula Award Stories 7)

Please rest yourself while I finish, Doctor. We must have the young people in it, yes. We'll need their help. But . . . you understand, don't you? If the secret of our existence is known too soon, Hanuman's effort to complete the story is done for. Even supposing the best, supposing there were no immediate wish to destroy us, to be smothered in your people's good intentions would be as lethal as-as the Pentagon trying to make me tell them all the good news of Russian and Chinese military

Stop a moment, Peregrine. That sickens me too much.

I'm sorry, Doctor. It was a foolish example .... May I go on?

Yes.

We came to you first, and you only, because we have no one else. You understand, your students-some changes in the group each summer, and we can't follow them, study them. I told you, we studied you a long while before we dared approach. So, now, will you tell us which of these young people we can trust for secrecy? You know them. We don't.

Trust them all.

This is my one piece of human knowledge you must accept. Trust them all, Peregrine. Oh-wonderful-even if I only dream it! To know the past, make ft a truer guide! Something I can do not just preach while the time runs out-

Peregrine

He's dead. His heart couldn't bear joy.

Yes, that was joy .... I hear the cars. He wrote no will, Lykos. They won't have this place. They'll find some way to help us. Brut-what if
Then it happens. But Peregrine, we must stop waiting for perfection. And I think this generation is something new on Earth. They are the first to understand they could lose their world-their world, Peregrine-and my heart tells me they are too good to let it go. Come with me. We're going to them now, and we will trust them all.