"Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Room of Lost Souls" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

They want someone in the Room and they want it soon.

They donтАЩt even know weтАЩre going in today. In the last several
meetings, Karl has left out the diving rosters and locations until my father
was gone.

Karl thought I would object to keeping them in the dark about the
Room dive. But I donтАЩt. I havenтАЩt liked the access heтАЩs given them from the
beginning. ThatтАЩs more than I would have offered.

Roderick is good at flying the skip in enclosed spaces. We want the
skip as close to the entry point as possible. That way, the divers donтАЩt have
to cover a lot of known ground before going into the important part of the
dive. It saves time and could save lives if someone got into trouble.

In this case, the skip would have go to into the destroyed habitats. ItтАЩs
not as dangerous as it sounds. Most of the debris has been cleared by time
or by scavengers. Roderick flies with the portals closed, which makes me
feel blind.

But he focuses on instruments, and heтАЩs so good with them that I
donтАЩt complain. Not that I have any right to, anyway.
 Because the distance between the Room and the Business is so
short, Karl has already put on his suit. ItтАЩs an upgrade from the days when
we dove together, but it resembles the one he had before.

Karl likes redundant systems. His suit is expensive and a little bulky. It
has an internal environmental system, like all suits, but it also has an
external one.

He used to carry only two extra breathers. Now he has four, and
theyтАЩre larger than the ones he used to have. Apparently the Dignity Vessel
experience has had a greater impact on him than heтАЩs willing to admit.

Instead of a slew of weapons in the loops along his belt, he carries a
few tools and his knife. The knife has a long curved blade and has saved
his life more than once.

I find myself staring at it throughout the short journey, wondering what
he would use it on inside that Room.

Mikk has also suited up. HeтАЩll go as far as the RoomтАЩs door and wait
thereтАФnot the best assignment, especially for a young diver. But if Mikk
doesnтАЩt know patience by now, heтАЩll never learn it. And he swears he
understands how long he might have to monitor that door.

Roderick anchors the skip to the remaining wall so that he wonтАЩt have
to use thrust in the small space. He and I will wait on board and will monitor
everything through the suit cameras that Karl and Mikk will wear. TheyтАЩll also
have audio in their headpieces.