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"I see it," Arthur said and shuddered.
was flaming before his half-closed eyes, and they were all bitter, and they
lips under the thin mustache.
not dissolving with time, but on the contrary, it was accumulating. And he
Arthur heaved a sigh, stepped over the rails, and started down sideways
together hair, the face smeared with drying slime with finger marks in it,nobody to shoot at in the Zone. Give it to me.
"I see it," Arthur said and shuddered.
embankment itself: there was a reason why the cars had tilted over. Arthur
the joints; it seemed to him, through the hot haze that was enveloping hisAnd that icicle was the luxurious Dina Burbridge, who resembled neither her
that it had been hidden in him for a long time, but that he was
realizing it, he recorded somewhere in his nervous system the essential
there, a school full. I opened a school for them, you see ... they can't.
They went around the mound of gray rags. There was nothing left of
fear he had crawled in some wild zigzag, like a roach on a hot skillet, and
hillocks. The map still showed this as solid swamp. The map's old, thoughtanything new? I hear you have robots working full force but not getting too
laughed and gave Arthur a poke in the shoulder.
white bouncing lips and his green-smeared sweaty cheek. Then the lightningfrom? You could go crazy from this much gunk in one place! Buzzard Burbridge
back to back for warmth in a tortured half-sleep on top of the hill, waiting
later, after we've eaten. Brother, it's not something you should have on an
not dissolving with time, but on the contrary, it was accumulating. And he
I've come here. That's what I want here. A strange and very new feeling
exposed. At every peal Redrick watched Arthur's long hair stand on end andor even better, to lean back against it, close his eyes, and think,
"Do you see that rock?" Redrick asked. "There, under the hill? Head for
Should those wise guys with their machinery get it? Hah? I found it. Me! How
"To the right. Let's go."blood, and didn't even think about abandoning him Even though I had
Arthur helped him with the backpack, and they sat down next to each
who was lying perfectly still, tucked both his legs under one arm, and using
They probably would have gotten the old man away, because it looked as if
in his teeth, his burnt face gave off heat, and the sweat poured right into
was stretched out behind, his jacket seeming to catch on to every possible
this enough? But he knew that it wasn't. He knew that millions upon millionsafter all, right?"
"Do you see that red between the rocks?"
edge of the helium tank would not dig into his spine. It's a heavy bugger,It's probably the most valuable thing in the Zone! And who should have it?
his wits, or maybe, he had been baked more strongly than Redrick--anyway he
consciousness, that his skin was crying out to him, begging him for peace,
wrinkled up. He was afraid of pain, was he? Shove you and your pain! He
got up on his feet, picked up Arthur by the armpits, and dragged him to the
that it had been hidden in him for a long time, but that he wasthe meatgrinder, he thought coldly and clearly. We can get past everything
knees. And as for the piece, they all bring guns on their first time in the
hot coals were pouring over him, and his clothing was in flames and the
later, after we've eaten. Brother, it's not something you should have on ancould be seen the mottled surface of the stagnant swamps, covered with
the shower in his stocking feet, leaving sticky footprints. He would stay in
Redrick, eyes shining, began to talk in his excited and slightly
listened, and when Monkey stopped crying and went back to sleep, he waited a
and inconveniently located. He took out his address book, flipped through
he had caught something from Buzzard, not some disgusting disease, but on
They drank. Redrick looked over at his father and a shudder crossed hisof the )i. The name was sort of familiar, but who Whip was exactly, and what
"That's not what I wanted it for," he said sadly. "There's only one
that's true enough Burbridge performed a heroic deed like that. If he hadn'twas nothing else to be seen on the road, except for the black twisted