"Ray Vukcevich - Fired" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vukcevich Ray)

There was a place where he could show her a view she wouldnтАЩt have seen from the passenger areas. It
would not be a better view (the passengers had the best views, since they were the point, after all) but it
would be a little different. They could swing by the workshops, and maybe take a peek at a kitchen or
two along the way. And after that she might be impressed by the staging area for outside work.

Hey, they could pop in on the bridge. Maybe the Captain would let her take a turn at the wheel.

They moved into the corridor, and the music and fake smoke stopped when the door slid shut behind
them.

тАЬYou might want to turn down your nose through here,тАЭ John said. Dumb speak. What was he thinking?
She would know about the smell in these corridors, since sheтАЩd come through them not long ago to get to
the bar in the first place. She probably saw the Slingshot Lounge blurb in the passenger brochure about
seeing some тАЬgenuine Permanent Peach life in the belly of the Can.тАЭ Completely safe. Well, maybe youтАЩll
want to go in a group? Spicy. Dicey. Babbling. He hoped he hadnтАЩt been saying any of that out loud.

He gave her a quick glance. She was still on fire.

тАЬSo, are you from Mars or Earth?тАЭ he asked.

тАЬNo,тАЭ she said. тАЬAre we there yet?тАЭ

тАЬNot yet,тАЭ he said, and it occurred to him that he had just echoed what sheтАЩd said when heтАЩd put out his
arm and invited her to touch him. They were moving along side by side but were they going in the same
direction? She seemed pretty single-minded about seeing a spacesuit and that was okay with him, but he
didnтАЩt intend to end the evening looking at his equipment-well, okay, so he did intend to look at his
equipment . Show and tell. Touch. Boy, if she knew the adolescent babblony that was going on in his
head, sheтАЩd go out like you blew on a match, but hey maybe there was something similar going on in her
head; after all sheтАЩd searched out a spaceman and they were on their way to see his suit and who knew
what else? It was like the way you could project whatever you wanted people to see when they looked
at you, but did you really know what they were seeing since they could take your projection and work it
into their own world in any way they wanted? When you were with someone you werenтАЩt always in the
same place at the same time. Like they say, stretch it out, wad it up, get loose, and be elastic. He and
Pam might be walking along together, but they were worlds apart and alone and he suddenly wanted to
really connect with her. He would turn off his inferences and ignore her implications. He would start with
his тАЬother eye.тАЭ

He stopped himself just in time.

Life is all about the stories we tell ourselves.

This was no time to blow the evening on some dumb longing that would result in the same old
disappointment like they say doing the same dumb thing and expecting different results was well dumb so
dumb de dumb dumb but oh look hereтАЩs the first stop on the Famous John Wagoner Ladies Tour of the
Can of Peaches .

тАЬHereтАЩs something interesting,тАЭ he said. They had come to the place where he could show her a less
pretty side of the CanтАЩs outside skin.