"Jerry Sohl - I, Aleppo" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sohl Jerry)

him into a swimming pool. Gary came up sputtering and out of breath,
piqued at this action. The girl stood at the poolside, glaring at him. The
man in the hooded robe stood behind her. It was impossible to see his
face.

Gary started to climb out of the pool.



"All right," Max Easton said with urgency, "bring him back."

Ralph disengaged the molecular probes while Kate, Casimir and Sam
lifted off their visual monitor helmets to assist in the
consciousness-restoring operation.

One moment Gary's heavy bomber pilot uniform was dripping wet as,
under the full, hot glare of the summer sun, he clambered out of a pool
somewhere in England. The next thing he knew he was leaving the dream
and felt reality returning as the probes left his head. It was a shock,
coming back to the real world and finding he could move his limbs again.

He opened his eyes to see the bright fluorescence of the laboratory
ceiling. He was no longer drenched in water but in the sweat the dream
had caused. The intoxication of the trinopterine solution began to
dissipate, things came into focus, and he looked up into the eyes of
Kathleen Keegan. "You all right?" she asked.

There was just the right amount of concern in Kate's voice and Gary
liked that. He reached out, put a hand over hers. "I'm okay," he said,
though the dream was still very much with him, more so than an ordinary
dream would have been.

Max's face appeared behind Kate's. Dr. Easton's eyes were bright. "We
almost had something."

"Really?" This was good news. This was what they were working for.
"When?"

"When you were being carried across the airfield."

"So that's it!" Gary said. "What's that?"

"It was the girl. SheтАФwinced, I guess you'd say." He sat up on the ebony
table. "Then she became angry."

"Angry?" Max frowned. "I thought it was surprise more than anything
else." He thought about it for a moment, then said, "Whatever it was, she
was aware of something going on, not much question about that. That's
the first time that's happened."