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Roger Zelazny. Sign of chaos
Atec Ноябрь 07 2007 02:48:28
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. She was exactly what I needed,
though, so I took possession and healed the body. She is not here anymore.
If I depart, you'll be left either with a corpse or a human vegetable."
"You're bluffing," I said, but I remembered Vialle's saying that Nayda
had been ill.
"No," she said. "I'm not."
"It doesn't matter," I told her.
"Mandor," I said, turning to him, "you said you can keep her from
vacating that body and following me?"
"Yes," he replied.
"Okay, Nayda," I said. "I am going somewhere and I am going to be in
extreme danger there. I am not going to permit you to follow me and carry
out your orders."
"Don't," she answered.
"You give me no choice but to keep you pent while I go about my
business."
She sighed.
"So you've found a way to get me to violate one order in order to get
me to carry out the other. Very clever."
"Then you'll tell me what I want to know?"
She shook her head.
"I am physically unable to tell you," she said. "It is not a matter of
will. But . . . I think I've found a way around it."
"What is that?"
"I believe I could confide in a third party who alstt desires your
safety."
"You mean-"
"If you will leave the room for a time, I will try to tell your brother
those things I may not explain to you."
My eyes met Mandor's. Then, "I'll step out in the hall for a bit," I
said
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