She also sounded far more frightened than her colleague; the unsteady edge toher voice made Renie's headache worse. !Xabbu was farther up the curve of the root, staring down the river. _ He pulled at his mustache and looked around. The glow deepened until the gateway burned so brightly stripes of black shadow leaped outfrom the bone pillars, and the mosaic on the floor became invisible in the glare.
She limped to the cabin. But far scanny, too. It hummed and quacked--in my mind's eye the soundhad a hard, angular shape, like an ancient mechanical toy--and its accent was nothing I had everheard. For all its other freakishextremes, the new simworld seemed as weather-less as a business office.
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