"Steve Perry - Aliens 03 - The Female War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Steven)

"Some of my past catching up to me. There's a family on Earth that sends broadcasts outтАФI first
saw them on Spears's planetoid. One of them is a little girl, maybe twelve or thirteen now. Watching
isтАФ" Billie stopped and sipped her splash. "It's hard."

"Is it Amy?"

Billie looked up, surprised.

Ripley said, "I saw one a few days ago. Do you know her?"

Billie shook her head. "I feel like I do."

"Yeah, I understand. Amy was my daughter's name, too." She drank.

Wilks stepped through the doorway, nodded to the bartender, and came to their table.

"Sorry I'm late," he said. "I wasтАФuh, weight-training. Guess I lost track of time." He smiled and sat
down, then poured himself a glass of splash.

Billie noticed that he seemed much more relaxed than usual, his scarred face almost calm.
 " 'Lo, Ripley."

Ripley leaned forward. "We need some help, Wilks," she said. "No point in coating itтАФdo you
dream of the aliens?"

"Doesn't everybody?" he said.

"Not nightmares," Billie said, her voice quiet. "Signals. Transmissions. From a queen mother, a
leader of queens. She'sтАФshe's in a dark place, a cave or something, and she wants. She's waiting, she's
calling."

Billie closed her eyes, remembering. "She moves closer, and then she speaks. She says she loves
you and wants you with her; you can feel it coming off of her in waves, her need ..."

Billie opened her eyes. Ripley was nodding. Wilks wore a skeptical look.

"Maybe it's something you ate," he said.

"Listen, Wilks, remember the robot ship? The dream I had?"

Wilks nodded. "Yeah. I remember."

Billie had known there were aliens on that ship when there was no way she could have; that dream
had saved their lives.

"So what do you want from me?"

"We need to know who's having dreams," said Ripley. "I had 'em for a while, but they stopped; if
they're actually transmissions of some kind, we may be able to use them. But we have to find out if