Robert Metzger - Planet of the Dolphins

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ROBERT A. METZGER - Planet Of The Dolphins

Herman didn't want to die.

The only sounds in the alley were the whisperings of rats and the distant yowl

of a cat in heat. But Herman could hear things that weren't quite there -- the

beating of waves on a distant shore, the scream of a cart wheeling gull, the

swish of kelp rolling in the swells, and always the whale songs.

The songs filled his head.

They were evil, angry songs.

And there was no escaping them.

"I'll call the cops on you if you don't pay your bill!" screamed a distant

voice.

Herman didn't care. Not paying for three stale doughnuts and a cup of coffee

which had tasted like burnt thirty-weight was of little consequence as compared

to what he faced in the alley -- for what waited for him just around the corners

of time and space. He knelt down and pushed his back up against the alley's

brick wall, all the while knowing that it offered absolutely no safety. But old

reflexes died hard. Brick and mortar were no obstacle to the things that could

twist reality. His hands shook. His stomach groaned.

"Ishmael!" he screamed.

There was no reply. But he hadn't really expected one. Ishmael would only act at

the last possible moment. That is, if he acted at all.

"Ugly son of a bitch," he whispered.

Herman sniffed the air. The salty-seaweed tang was unmistakable. The ozone stink

of dimensions ripping apart was suddenly oppressive. He shook all over and

pissed in his pants. It didn't matter. Herman looked up at the band of night sky

above him, at the dim stars and the neon glow. The Strip was less than three

blocks away, and just beyond that was Aqualand. He'd gotten too close.

And now he was going to pay for that.

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"Ishmael? he screamed again as the sky above him shifted, filling with diamond

motes and rainbow eels. There was no time for another scream. The sky suddenly

turned liquid.

Splash.

Vegas had seen less than two inches of rain in the last year. It was bone-dry,

dusty, dirty, everything coated in grit and sand. But now it rained in buckets,

barrels, dump trucks.

Oceans.

Herman could not breathe. The salt water beat at him, blinding him, filling his

nose and mouth. The torrent pushed him down against the alley floor, driving his

face into the asphalt.

"Herman Melville!"

It was a bellow so resonant that it almost cracked his skull. Herman pushed

himself up on hands and knees and sucked down a breath. The water was elbow-deep

but quickly receding. He looked down the alley, toward the glow, just past a

wheelless, rusted-out hulk. A jewel of impossible colors and infinite angles

hung there.

"Herman Melville!" screamed the jewel.

Herman stood and almost had time to turn. But the jewel unfolded itself, the

hidden dimensions uncurling, time itself unraveling, Here and now touched there

and elsewhen.

"Help me!"

There was a flash of black and white, the beating of a fluke, the glint of an

ivory tooth, and then it hung in front of him, nestled in a crystal web, all of

it hovering about a foot above the alley floor.

"No," whispered Herman, as he stood, mesmerized, staring into the unblinking eye

of Orcinus orca.

"Herman Melville!" roared the killer whale. It reached out from the floating

crystalline cage with flippers that were not flippers at all, but stubby arms

-and long slender fingers. "This planet will be ours!" bellowed the whale. It

beat its tail and the crystalline cage was propelled down the alley.

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