"Kristine Smith - Kilian 1 - Code Of Conduct" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Kristine)

Copyright ┬й 1999 by Kristine C. Smith
ISBN: 0-380-80783-1




CODE OF CONDUCT
Kristine Smith



Acknowledgments

A first book is usually the most difficult to write, firstly, because you're still trying to
find your sea legs, and secondly, because you've no assurance whatsoever that what
you've spent years producing will go anywhere other than a box in the cellar.

I've been lucky enough to have had help from many people in assisting me through
the difficulties. In particular, I'd like to thank Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, who helped
keep me on track, and my parents, Gordon and Charlotte Smith, whose love and
support helped keep me going.




The visible aspects of the condition, it is believed, first
manifested themselves during a stressful period in the
patient's life. Therefore, the mild agitation that
commonly precedes the acute phase, although evident,
was easily ascribable to the patient's augmentation or
other, more mundane, causes.

тАФInternal Communication, Neoclona/Seattle,
Shroud, J., Parini, V., concerning Patient S-l
 CHAPTER 1

The frigid morning dampness seeped through Jani's weatherall as she hurried out of
the charge lot.
She jammed the notes from her crack-of-dawn meeting into the side pocket of her
duffel; as she did,
she quickly surveyed the scene behind her. Rain-slick skimmers hovered beside
boxy charge stations. Trickle-charge lights glimmered like distant stars. A single
streetlight bathed everything in a cold blue sheen. No movement in the ice-light. No
sound.

Jani took a step. Stopped. She could feel eyes follow her, could sense their probing
like a skin-crawl across her shoulders. She turned.

A few meters away, a feral cat regarded her from its perch atop a discarded shipping
crate. It stared