"Sheri S. Tepper - Jinian Stareye" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tepper Sherri)

we met тАФ or met again тАФ evidence of it always had the power to surprise me, to shame me, as though I
felt he could not have survived without me. 'Then you know what was happening?'

'It was the human ship arriving. The ship with all the Magicians on it. Barish was on that ship, and Didir,
and Queynt himself. It landed a thousand years ago. Didn't you see Barish come out the door on the side
of it? I wanted to get closer and see what Barish was like before - when he was just Barish.'

Barish was no longer just Barish. I knew Peter blamed himself sometimes for putting old Windlow's mind
into Barish's body, but then at the time we all thought Barish had no mind of his own. Since then, the two
of them had lived an uneasy joint tenancy, two sets of memories, two sets of opinions on everything, all
in one head, and it would have been interesting to see

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what Barish was like, just as himself. Nonetheless, we hadn't time to think of it now.

'All I could see was something that didn't look natural,' I confessed. 'Even though I knew it was human, I
thought it was very strange. I couldn't understand it.'

'That's odd.' He thought about this, peering at me intently, then nodding. 'Well, no, not really odd. If these
are the memories of the world, as your Dervish friend told you, then you're probably picking up how the
world feels about it. Felt about it. To this world, men would have been strange. Very strange. Come from
some far place, not of "itself," so to speak.'

This made sense. At least it was no stranger than the rest of it, and it would explain the horrifying feelings
I had been having.

'The second place we got into was the Wastes of Bleer,' mused Peter. 'At the time the moon fell. You said

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Storm Grower brought the moon down, just to prove she could. Lorn must have found that traumatic, too.'
He thought for a time longer. 'And I have no idea what the third place was.'

'I don't, either,' I confessed. 'But I do know how it's connected to the other two things.' It had taken me a
while to figure it out, but I had come up with an answer. 'Just as we came out, there was this sound from
above, the sound of something breaking. Like a great beam of wood.'

'I heard it.'

'Well, after it broke, I think something fell. Something huge.'

'So each event was about something falling?' He sounded doubtful.

'I think so. Each event was part of a category labeled "Something falling." Or, more specifically, not
merely "something," but "something very big." I'm not really sure about that last one, because we didn't
stay to see.'

'Could we step back in and find out?'