"Sheri S. Tepper - After Long Silence" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tepper Sherri)

"On first New Moon, yes. There are only three I'm a neutral preceptor for, three I haven't had in my
own classesтАФlet's see, James, Refnic, and that Clarin girl with the astonishing voice тАж "

"Renna. Renna Clarin." Jamieson cocked his head, considering.

"Right. Anything I should know?"

"James will fade, definitely if there's a clinch, and probably anyhow. He spends half his life wetting his
pants and the other half drying himself off and asking if anybody noticed. Refnic's reliable. The tougher
things are, the more he settles. I don't know that much about Renna Clarin except she looks funny bald.
She transferred in."

Tasmin ignored the impudence, as Jamieson had known he would. "Evidently female neophytes don't
have their heads shaved at Northwest, and it came as a shock to her when she got shaved down here.
She had excellent personal references. Her records from Deep-soil Seven choir school were good."

Jamieson shrugged eloquently, a balletic gesture starting at his shoulders and ending at his fingertips,
which twitched a little, showing their contempt for good records. Excellent choir school recommendations
might mean little except that a candidate had an acceptable voice or got along well with the Choir
Master. Jamieson himself had had terrible choir school grades and had set a new school record for
demerits, a fact that Jamieson knew Tasmin was well aware of. Again he changed the subject. "What's
the route?"

"Oh, I think we'll do my usual first trip loop. Past the Watchers on the easy side, down through the False
Eagers, along Riddance Ridge to the Startles. Then down the deepsoil pass to Harmony, stay overnight
there, give them a good scary look at the Tower while you and I sing them past, then back through the
Far Watchlings."

"If it was me," Jamieson said, greatly daring, "I'd use James on the Startles. He likes that score and he
can't do much wrong there."

"Rig him to pass, that it? Then what happens the first time some caravan depends on him?"

"Oh, I just thought a little more experience maybe тАж " Jamieson's voice trailed off, embarrassed. He
obviously hadn't thought at all. Now he flushed and ducked his head in a hinted apology, a courtesy he
accorded Tasmin but very few others.

"Think about it," Tasmin recommended, testing the final adjustment of the air pump. He sat back then,
musing. "Jamieson."

"Sir?"

"You're of an age to pay attention to the 'Soilcoast singers. What do you know about Lim Terr├йe?"

"Oh, hey, apogee. Way up in the ranking. Best-seller cubes, last three out. The girls are brou-dizzy over
him."

"What's his music like?"
 Jamieson gave this some thought. "Kind of hard to describe. There's a lot of Tripsinger stuff in it, but he