"Whitley Strieber - Cat Magic" - читать интересную книгу автора (Strieber Whitley)

тАЬWhich means only that you're witling to push a broom for the anointed and take orders from teenage
girls.тАЭ

тАЬNo, that's a complete misconception. There's no fixed hierarchy on the Covenstead. Bonnie, I wish
you'd just give a chance for a couple of weeksтАФтАЭ

тАЬOkay, kids, let's not get into that discussion right now when we could be sitting on Brother Pierce's Fat
Man on our way to Hiroshima. I've powered up the transformer. I'm going to open the lines.тАЭ

George stepped into the animal room with Bonnie and closed the door.

тАЬGeorge, is it really dangerous, or is your paranoia getting the better of you?тАЭ

тАЬWe've got to take precautions. They were in this lab, after all.тАЭ

тАЬThe other animals are fine, by the way,тАЭ Bonnie said. тАЬJust the one frog missing.тАЭ

George shook his head. тАЬThe one frog.тАЭ

тАЬI ran blood tests on Tess and Gort, to be sure there were no slow poisons or anything. They're in good
shape.тАЭ

тАЬSmall blessings count in this impoverished place. We can't begin to afford new rhesus monkeys.тАЭ

тАЬThe lines are open,тАЭ dark called. тАЬI'm activating the cage.тАЭ

тАЬWait. Get out of (here.тАЭ

тАЬI have to watch the readings. If we overpuise we'll burn out the whole thing.тАЭ

тАЬIt might be dangerous.тАЭ

Dark set his jaw. тАЬConstance assigned me to this lab.тАЭ He needed to explain himself no further. George
understood the loyalty of the witches to their queen. As a member of a town coven, he felt it himself,
although less strongly.
The lights dimmed when dark turned on the extremely intense magnetic field that was the heart of the
device. It was so powerful that electrons within it were forced to stasis.

Electric motors in the field would stop, batteries cease to emit energy. And sensitive electrical systems,
such as brains and nerves, would cease to function. A few seconds in this magnetic limbo sufficed to stop
the animal's nervous system and render it effectively dead, although completely undamaged. As time
passed, of course, cells would begin to deteriorate. Enough time and the deterioration would become
irreversible. But before then the animal could be restarted by turning off the field and shocking its heart
back into action.

The system was potentially safer than anesthesia, and the suspension of critical body functions opened up
undreamed-of surgical possibilities. George felt that his work was important even beyond Constance's
wish to use it in the ancient ritual of initiation. If things went right, he had a chance at immortality here. He
dreamed of a Nobel, a chair at MIT, himself strolling the byways of Cambridge in a ratty tweed suit, ripe
in age and honor.