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."Airr-eee-ll?" someone whispered timidly." Arre 'u asleep?"Ariel's eyes could not have opened wider or faster if she had received anelectrical shock.She jumped back in stunned surprise at the sight of Wolrufsquatting directly in front of her.And promptly smacked her head against theboulder.Things got woozy as the caninoid cocked her head.Wolruf held a clump ofstalks in her left hand, and a few strands hung from the fur surrounding herlips."Arre 'u well?""Of course I'm well! What does it look like?""My annces'orrs would have said that 'u had vize-atorr.""Who? What kind?" Ariel snapped.She closed her mouth with a force of will,then tried to compose herself.She was only partially successful."It shouldbe obvious that until you showed up I was the only one here.""Two rre-ponnzes: furrst, been watching 'u all nite " What!?""Man'elbrrot rreques'ed it.Thought 'u woul'n't apprresee-ate rrobut.""Why that big hunk of ""Pulice, let me finish.Seckon': ancess'ors would have said 'u weren't onlytheeng in 'ur mind at moment, and I wai'ed, wa'cheeng, thinking it would bebest not to dis'urb 'u or 'ur vize-atorr.""And exactly what made you decide to interrupt my strange interlude?""'U looked like 'u were about to faint.""I see."Wolruf tipped back further on her haunches, so that her back was perfectlystraight.Her posture struck Ariel as being almost humanly annoyed, especiallywhen the caninoid crossed her arms and shook her head, as if inPage 38 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldisappointment.She went to great lengths to avoid looking directly intoAriel's eyes, first examining the buildings, the bank, the rocks, and thenpointedly turning her back to Ariel, perhaps to have a better view of thereservoir."Well, aren't you going to ask me what my problem was?" said Ariel.Wolruf turned her head slightly."Why sshhould I?""I I thought you must might want to know, that's all.""Nne of my bizzness.Not people's way.Deafenly not mine.""Aren't you worried?""No.""Don't you care?""Didn't hav' to wa'ch 'u all nite.Was migh'ily bored.Many timesdistrrack'ed.Could hav' lef' 'u at any time and Man'elbrrot neither knowednorr carred."Ariel suddenly felt as tired as she had ever been in her life.Even to shrugwith a labored air of nonchalance cost her a tremendous effort."Howflattering," she said sarcastically.She immediately regretted the words.Wolruf was stopping just short of sayingshe had stayed to watch because she was concerned for her welfare.There yougo, Miss Burgess, Ariel thought.You really will go insane if you can'trecognize the good in people, whether they're human or not.She sat down beside Wolruf and said, "I'm sorry.Please try to understand thatin addition to all our other problems, my mental condition gets out of handsometimes.""Datzz all rite. It isn't, it's just that I don't know what I can do about it right now.Tomake matters worse, it always gives me an excuse to misbehave, even if I don'tknow at the time that that's all it is."Wolruf pulled her lips back against her teeth in a kind of smile."So are 'uwell?""I'm better. There's no rreazon to be upset about vize't from tricks' er.Izz how he makesus obey his will, by makin' us see wha' he wantzz.""That may be easy for your race to accept, but we humans aren't so used tohaving strange beings make pit stops in our minds at their every convenience."Wolruf nodded thoughtfully." 'U simplee lack perrspec'ive."Ariel nodded in return.She had half expected that as a result of her apologyshe would feel the haze of exhaustion lift, but instead she imagined eachindividual cell in her body deteriorating steadily.A little while longer andshe'd be a quivering mass of protoplasm."It's an old Spacer saying that everybody likes to feel in control of theirlives, but with Aurorans it's only more so," she said." And why not? It's notonly an effect of our current culture, but an extension of our own history.Asthe first Spacers, we terraformed Aurora to suit our own tastes and purposes.We did everything we could to make our new planet a garden.We even broughtwith us the prettiest, best, and most useful Terran species, leaving behindthe ones that would make life too unpleasant.""If tha' 'ur plane'zz history, then the in'ivi'ual retlec'zz it.""Yes, until I was exiled and cut off from my funds, I had a great deal ofindependence.Within socially acceptable limits which I never really acceptedanyway I had complete freedom of action.""'U brroke those limitz ""And lost control of my life.Funny how the details of my rebellion are sofuzzy now.Must be a side effect of my disease.Anyway, it's funny how the onething I always thought I still had perfect control over my mind seems to beslipping away from me now.""Trry to relax.Take it from one who hazz seen many un'err thrroes ofvize'torr.'U not control it, 'u detlec' it."Page 39 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlAriel couldn't help but laugh."You mean that when insanity is inevitable,relax and enjoy it?""Not insanity.Merely givin' in to morre compellin' fuch 'ions.Derec doesthat.That izz why he hazz so many ideas.""I wish I could believe the same thing was true with me." Ariel paused as theimplications of Wolruf's remark began to sink in."Is that what he's doingwhen he spends so much time with Lucius, when he should be figuring out a wayto get us off this hellhole?"Suddenly Ariel stiffened.Her eyes went wide."Wha' izz it?" Wolruf asked."Wha'zz wrron'? "I don't know," she replied."Ano'herr vize-shon?""I I hope so." She grimaced, closed her eyes, and turned her head to the sky.It's not real, she told herself, it's only something r m imagining [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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."Airr-eee-ll?" someone whispered timidly." Arre 'u asleep?"Ariel's eyes could not have opened wider or faster if she had received anelectrical shock.She jumped back in stunned surprise at the sight of Wolrufsquatting directly in front of her.And promptly smacked her head against theboulder.Things got woozy as the caninoid cocked her head.Wolruf held a clump ofstalks in her left hand, and a few strands hung from the fur surrounding herlips."Arre 'u well?""Of course I'm well! What does it look like?""My annces'orrs would have said that 'u had vize-atorr.""Who? What kind?" Ariel snapped.She closed her mouth with a force of will,then tried to compose herself.She was only partially successful."It shouldbe obvious that until you showed up I was the only one here.""Two rre-ponnzes: furrst, been watching 'u all nite " What!?""Man'elbrrot rreques'ed it.Thought 'u woul'n't apprresee-ate rrobut.""Why that big hunk of ""Pulice, let me finish.Seckon': ancess'ors would have said 'u weren't onlytheeng in 'ur mind at moment, and I wai'ed, wa'cheeng, thinking it would bebest not to dis'urb 'u or 'ur vize-atorr.""And exactly what made you decide to interrupt my strange interlude?""'U looked like 'u were about to faint.""I see."Wolruf tipped back further on her haunches, so that her back was perfectlystraight.Her posture struck Ariel as being almost humanly annoyed, especiallywhen the caninoid crossed her arms and shook her head, as if inPage 38 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldisappointment.She went to great lengths to avoid looking directly intoAriel's eyes, first examining the buildings, the bank, the rocks, and thenpointedly turning her back to Ariel, perhaps to have a better view of thereservoir."Well, aren't you going to ask me what my problem was?" said Ariel.Wolruf turned her head slightly."Why sshhould I?""I I thought you must might want to know, that's all.""Nne of my bizzness.Not people's way.Deafenly not mine.""Aren't you worried?""No.""Don't you care?""Didn't hav' to wa'ch 'u all nite.Was migh'ily bored.Many timesdistrrack'ed.Could hav' lef' 'u at any time and Man'elbrrot neither knowednorr carred."Ariel suddenly felt as tired as she had ever been in her life.Even to shrugwith a labored air of nonchalance cost her a tremendous effort."Howflattering," she said sarcastically.She immediately regretted the words.Wolruf was stopping just short of sayingshe had stayed to watch because she was concerned for her welfare.There yougo, Miss Burgess, Ariel thought.You really will go insane if you can'trecognize the good in people, whether they're human or not.She sat down beside Wolruf and said, "I'm sorry.Please try to understand thatin addition to all our other problems, my mental condition gets out of handsometimes.""Datzz all rite. It isn't, it's just that I don't know what I can do about it right now.Tomake matters worse, it always gives me an excuse to misbehave, even if I don'tknow at the time that that's all it is."Wolruf pulled her lips back against her teeth in a kind of smile."So are 'uwell?""I'm better. There's no rreazon to be upset about vize't from tricks' er.Izz how he makesus obey his will, by makin' us see wha' he wantzz.""That may be easy for your race to accept, but we humans aren't so used tohaving strange beings make pit stops in our minds at their every convenience."Wolruf nodded thoughtfully." 'U simplee lack perrspec'ive."Ariel nodded in return.She had half expected that as a result of her apologyshe would feel the haze of exhaustion lift, but instead she imagined eachindividual cell in her body deteriorating steadily.A little while longer andshe'd be a quivering mass of protoplasm."It's an old Spacer saying that everybody likes to feel in control of theirlives, but with Aurorans it's only more so," she said." And why not? It's notonly an effect of our current culture, but an extension of our own history.Asthe first Spacers, we terraformed Aurora to suit our own tastes and purposes.We did everything we could to make our new planet a garden.We even broughtwith us the prettiest, best, and most useful Terran species, leaving behindthe ones that would make life too unpleasant.""If tha' 'ur plane'zz history, then the in'ivi'ual retlec'zz it.""Yes, until I was exiled and cut off from my funds, I had a great deal ofindependence.Within socially acceptable limits which I never really acceptedanyway I had complete freedom of action.""'U brroke those limitz ""And lost control of my life.Funny how the details of my rebellion are sofuzzy now.Must be a side effect of my disease.Anyway, it's funny how the onething I always thought I still had perfect control over my mind seems to beslipping away from me now.""Trry to relax.Take it from one who hazz seen many un'err thrroes ofvize'torr.'U not control it, 'u detlec' it."Page 39 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlAriel couldn't help but laugh."You mean that when insanity is inevitable,relax and enjoy it?""Not insanity.Merely givin' in to morre compellin' fuch 'ions.Derec doesthat.That izz why he hazz so many ideas.""I wish I could believe the same thing was true with me." Ariel paused as theimplications of Wolruf's remark began to sink in."Is that what he's doingwhen he spends so much time with Lucius, when he should be figuring out a wayto get us off this hellhole?"Suddenly Ariel stiffened.Her eyes went wide."Wha' izz it?" Wolruf asked."Wha'zz wrron'? "I don't know," she replied."Ano'herr vize-shon?""I I hope so." She grimaced, closed her eyes, and turned her head to the sky.It's not real, she told herself, it's only something r m imagining [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]