"Andre Norton - Cat's eye" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norton Andre)

been set up on Korwar, far back from the fighting
line. During the first fervor of patriotism the Dipple
dwellers met with good will. But later, when their
home worlds were ruined or traded away across the
conference tables, there was resentment, and on some
planets there were organized moves to get rid of these

rootless inhabitants.
Now, before dawn in Tikil, men from the Dipple

leaned their bowed shoulders against the outer wall of
the Casual Labor Center or squatted on their heels
before the door that marked the meeting place between



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the haves and the havenots.
Troy Horan watched the pale gold in the morning

sky deepen. Too late to mark stars now. He tried to
remember the sky over NordenтАФand had again one of

those sharp picture flashes of recollection.

A silver bowl arching above a waving plain of grass,
grass that was pale green, mauve, and silver all at

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once, changing as the wind rippled it. He knew the
warmth of a sun always half veiled in rainbow haze,
felt the play of muscles as the animal he perched upon
as a small boy, rather than bestrode, broke into a
rocking canter. That was one of his last memories of
Norden. They had been out "riding track," cutting a
wide circle about the grazing herd of tupan to check
that none of the animals had drifted toward the
quicksands near the river.

It had been that same morning that the Council
ships had cut out of the sky, burning portions of the
plain to charred earth and slag with their tailbursts.
Within three days Troy and his people had left Norden
for KorwarтАФthree Horans, a small clan among all the
others. But not three for long. His fatherтАФbig body,
laughing voice, quiet steady eyes, a pair of hands that
did everything'well, a man who was able to establish