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Roger Zelazny. Sign of chaos
Atec Ноябрь 07 2007 02:48:28
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. They don't wander through Shadow on their own, that I know of.
But a Shadowwalker can be tracked, and Fire Angels seem to be able to follow
a very cold trail once they've been imprinted with the victim's identity.
Now, I had been trumped to that crazy bar, and I didn't know they could
follow a Trump jump, but several other possibilities occurred to
me=including someone's locating me, transporting the thing to my vicinity,
and turning it loose to do its business. Whatever the means, though, the
attempt had the mark of the Courts upon it. Hence, my quick conversion to
Jabberwock fandom.
"What's going on?" Luke asked me suddenly, and the walls of the cave
faded for a moment and I heard a faint strain of music.
"It's tricky," I said. "Listen, it's time for your medicine."
I dumped out a palmful of the vitamin B12 tabs I had just brought in
and uncapped the water bottle I had also summoned.
"What medicine?" he asked as I passed them to him. "Doctor's orders," I
said. "Get you back on your feet faster. "
"Well, okay."
He threw all of them into his mouth and downed them with a single big
drink.
"Now these."
I opened the bottle of Thorazine. They were 200 milligrams each and I
didn't know how many to give him, so I decided on three. I gave him some
.tryptophan, too, and some phenylalanine.
He stared at the pills
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