"R. Garcia Y Robertson - Oxygen Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robertson R Garcia Y)

"You are nothing like a Greenie," he told her. No Greenie girl had ever put him through half of what
Tammy had done to himтАФbut then, no one had ever suggested that Earth women were easy. Especially
Humanities majors from the wilds of Portland, or Eugene. But that just made him want her all the
moreтАФtoo bad that frantic calls were coming from Eclipse, wanting to know why one of the leading
Trojans had broken loose, and was accelerating rapidly down-sun. Speed-of-light lag meant that the
Greenies did not even know anything had happenedтАФyet.

"Don't answer that," Tammy told him, shutting off the comlink.

He reached out to call Eclipse, to explain the situation and send them after the Skylark, which was
headed outsystem at high acceleration. But Tammy stabbed a button on the remote, and his arms went
limp, nerve-blocked by his slave collar. Tammy shook her head, saying, "Told you not to answer. Let
them stew a bit, we need time to ourselves."

When he started to protest, Tammy pushed MUTE and kissed him again. His anger at being helpless was
mollified by what she did with her tongue. Then she pushed UN-MUTE, and asked, "Was that not better
than talking to the Navy?"

It was, but Derek resented the lack of mobility, demanding, "Turn my arms back on."

Tammy sat up in his lap, smiling gleefully. "Only if you promise to be bad."

Greenie girls did not treat you like this, and, for the first time in his life, he truly wanted to lay hands on a
woman, and none too gently either. "Come on, turn me on."

"Whatever you say." Tammy pressed a button, and one body part leaped alert. Squirming suggestively,
she ground her rear into his lap, asking, "There, how about that?"
Still not what he wanted. Derek pleaded, "Let me use my hands and legs."

Tammy looked serenely at him, stripping off her hypo-rings. "Only if you promise to quit acting like a
Greenie."

"Damn you." Derek could not believe what this woman had put him through. "That's better." Tammy
turned the rest of him on. Until Eclipse matched orbits, they were utterly alone, two hundred light-years
from Earth; a splendid place for getting acquainted. Derek discovered that despite all her strange actions
and dangerous ways, Tammy was indeed just like a Greenie girl on the inside.

Eclipse brought the idyll to an end. Naval officers, some of them human, came to take over the tug and
send Cassandra sailing outsystem, where the wayward Trojan would no longer be a threat. Then they
returned Derek to Harmonia, where he and Tammy got a royal reception from grateful Greenies, who
could not do enough to show how thankful they were. Making it the perfect moment to press his claim to
the Presleite property, and to get a promise that the Presleites could return to it, along with anyone not
actually convicted of war crimes. Which the Greenies readily agreed to, being eternally optimistic about
humans' ability to better themselves.

Derek was there when the first shuttle landed, standing in the rain on a low plateau in the central massif
overlooking the green Hyperborean swamps. Women in black bouffant hairdos, and men with sideburns,
shades, and white dinner jackets trooped out of the shuttleтАФall armed, just in case. With them came their
children, as well as Brad and the other orphans from among Pender's people, like the teenage crew chief
that Tammy had gotten acquitted. And any adults who were willing to live among Greenies and