Archiwum
- Index
- Alan Burt Akers [Dray Prescot 07] Arena of Antares (pdf)
- Alan Burt Akers [Dray Prescot 21] A Fortune for Kregen (pdf)
- James Alan Gardner [League Of Peoples 02] Commitment Hour
- James Alan Gardner [League Of Peoples 07] Radiant
- Foster, Alan Dean Icerigger 1 Icerigger
- Alan Dean Foster The Damned 03 The Spoils of War (v1.0) (Undead)
- Alan Dean Foster The End of the Matter
- Alan Dean Foster The Metrognome And Other Stories
- Foster, Alan Dean The Black Hole
- Jack McKinney RoboTech 05 Force of Arms
- zanotowane.pl
- doc.pisz.pl
- pdf.pisz.pl
- aeie.pev.pl
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the laws (at least not right away), but mankind had displayed a disconcerting
tendency throughout his history to circumvent them.
And the men of today were not the men of tomorrow.
Who could tell what changes they might propose?
Then there was the matter of the CunsnuC. Their control over the baleen had
demonstrated a disturbing capacity for dangerous mischief. In the sanctuary of
their Deeps they might concoct further trouble for the
Cetacea.
DeMalthiAzur-of-the-Maizeen let pass the catodon-
ian equivalent of a sigh. Why must existence be so complicated, he mused, when
all one desired from life was time to think? Of the men he had no worry, for
the cousins the orca would stay near them, professing friendship for them and
dislike for the catodon, and report whatever they were about. Smartest of all
was the catodon, he thought, but cleverest was the orca.
The CunsnuC were more of a problem, and were likely to present the greater
problem for all that they were confined to their abyssal home. So the people
of the sea had much progress to make, out of sight of humanxkind and CunsnuC,
out of sight of even their massive but slow-thinking relatives the baleen.
Perhaps that progress would be part of the Great
Journey. Perhaps it would constitute only a digression.
But it was necessary to insure preservation of the peace.
Time, the old whale thought. Never enough time.
So much wasted time. But it was vital, this digression.
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Of all the creatures of Earth, only man had mastered the ability to travel
through environments hostile to his kind. That was ever his great advantage.
That, and manipulative digits. The Cetacea had only their minds. They could
not match the simian flexibility of man, nor the mental approaches of the
CunsnuC.
Oh, well. Perhaps in time. For now, the Cetacea, led by the catodons, would
have to find another path, would have to improve the path they had chosen to
insure their survival and their way of life.
It was time to practice, he thought. Straining his enormous brain and nervous
system, DeMalthiAzur-
of-the-Maizeen made the Shift.
How strange it makes the world look, he mused.
There was much new to think about, much that might be learned to surprise both
man and CunsnuC when the time came. The effort was easier this time, grew
simpler with each successful Shift.
Better to return now to the pod, to think with them.
Thinking alone cleared the brain but became lifeless and dull all too soon. He
longed for the mental com-
panionship and the joint progress made while sharing the Great Journey. He
levitated a little more, regard-
ing the water below and the startled icthyomiths that soared in his shadow.
Turning, the great whale sought his companions as all eighty tons of his
gray-brown bulk flew awkwardly but with increasing assurance toward the
setting sun.
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