"Peter W. Prellwitz - The Science Of Magic" - читать интересную книгу автора (Prellwitz Peter W)

"That's right. And do you know why we're not in the puterverse?"

"Uh-huh," Kerri said eagerly, happy to be the font of wisdom. "'Cause the puterverse is binary and
trinary code, an' pentrinsic codes gots threes an' fives in it, sorta, so it won't work there!"



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"Well, I'm impressed, Kerri!" Miss Hennessy exclaimed. Kerri beamed. "How is it that you know so
much about pentrinsic?"

"That's because I like it and my dad does it and so does my grampa and gramma." She took a deep
breath, then burst out, "I can do some, too!"

Miss Hennessy blinked a couple times, then nodded for her to sit down, which Kerri did, still glowing
with pride.

"I'm sure one day you will do some, Kerri. But that's only for older people, who study very hard. In fact,
that's why we're going to talk about it today. Even though it might be ten years, each of you could one
day code magic!" They all stared wide-eyed at her, not so much at the thought of becoming musers as
much as at the incredible amount of time she'd said. Ten years! She smiled understandingly and tapped
an access button, raising up a hologram of a blue and green planet in their midst.

"Who can tell me what planet this is?"

"Halo!"

"No, it's not! Where's the rings? That's Deerkin!"

"Huh-uh! That's Nojura!"

"Halo!"

"Soso!"

"Mant!"

"Imdlemodin!"

"Earth!"

"Halo!"

"Wait! Children! Wait!" Miss Hennessy held her hands up, only narrowly averting open hostilities.
"Someone was right, though I suspect it was a guess. That's Earth. Let me tell you about it.

"A long time ago, almost a thousand years, Earth was the only place that humans lived. Then we learned