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

Presleites.

Immensely happy with how things were going, Derek stood at the base of "his" mountain, surveying the
sweep of changing landscape from the bare mountain peak above to the emerald swamp lapping at the
lower slopes. Someday that swamp would be a blue sea, and the mountain flanks would be lowland
jungle, blending into highland forest, then alpine pasture. Air would become breathable all the way to the
top, so the whole mountain and the surrounding highland rim would be habitable. Only the crater floor,
where Gekkos had built their cities, would be lost to the sea. That part of Pender's plan had worked
admirably. His deluge would go on for decades, and the Gekkos would never get a second chance.

Derek saw a lone slim Greenie, wearing nothing but a gold sarong and a grin, walking nonchalantly up
from where the hippo herds were grazing. Zoom lenses showed Derek that it was Mia coming cheerfully
up to congratulate him. She stopped right before him, and rose on her green toes, kissing him warmly. "I
knew you would do right," she told him, "and keep Tammy safe."

"Not everything went totally as expected," Derek admitted ruefully. Doing right nearly came out all
wrong.

"Don't worry." Mia kissed him again. "I told you I wasn't done with you. And I dearly want to meet
Tammy too."

Why did Derek think his troubles had just begun?