Poul Anderson - War of the Wing-Men

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Poul Anderson
War of the Wing-Men
Chapter 1
great admiral Syranax hyr Urnan, heir Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet of the
Drakko, Fisherman of the seas of the East, Conductor to the sacrifice, and
Oráculo of the Lodestar, extended its wings and it returned them to join again
with a surprising humming. During a little while, the papers that were upon
the table raised as a result of the air. - No! - it said -. Impossible! It
must have some error. - As it pleases my admiral. - the Executive Head
Official Delp hyr Orikan, inclined with sarcasm -. the explorers, did not see
anything. The rage, was reflected in the face of T'heonax captain hyr Urnan,
son of the Great Admiral, presumed heir. Its superior lip rose until their
canine eyeteeth showed a sparkling reflection that was darkened in its snout.
- we do not have time to per to der with its insolencias, Delp Executive - it
said coldly -. It would advise to my father who got rid of an official who
does not show more respect. Under his distinguished official straps, the great
physical contexture of Delp straightened up. T'heonax captain took a step
towards him. The tails were opened and the wings extended preparing itself for
the fight, until the room filled with its bodies and their hatred. With a
calculation that apparently was accidental, T'heonax took its hand towards the
lateral part of its waist. The yellow eyes of the Delp flashed and their
fingers irritated on his tomahawk. The tail of admiral Syranax was fought
against the ground. It was like the outbreak of a pump. Both young noble
considered the place where they were, and very slowly, muscle after muscle
left these rested under the acariciadoras skins and they relaxed. - it is
already enough! - espetó Syranax -. Delp, your language will carry many
misfortunes to you. T'heonax, already I am getting tired of your
impertinencias. You will already have time to resolve personal your
enemistades when I am grass of the fish. In the meantime, it leaves calm my
few officials of solution. It was a this one explanation done with more
firmness than anyone of which nobody had listened to him long time ago. Their
son and his subordinate realized of which this creature of gray hair, of dim
eyes and rheumatic, had been in certain occasion the conqueror of the Maion
Mavy. (a thousand of wings of enemy heads had shaken of fear from the highest
masts) and still she was his head in the war against the Flock. They assumed
their maximum aspect of respect and hoped to that they continued. - you do not
take my words very literally, Delp - the admiral said to average voice. One
approached towards the bookcase that was upon the table and took a pipe of
long fuze beginning to fill up it with long fibers of dry seaweed of the sea
that took in a tabaquera in its waist. In the meantime its rigid already old
body was lodged looking for the greater comfortableness in a armchair of wool,
and leather. "I was surprised rather naturally - it continued - but am sure
that our explorers still know how to use as a telescope. Descríbeme again and
with all exactitude which happened. - a patrol approximately made its habitual
recognition to thirty miles to the nornoroeste of here - Delp with much
firmness in its words said -. This was was the general area of the called
island... I cannot pronounce this lacking name of the hand of the Gods, Sir;
it means the Flight of the Flags. - Yes, yes - Syranax- agreed you must know
that I have thrown a look to the map sometimes. T'heonax made a face. Delp did
not belong to the cut. This era its disadvantage. His grandfathers had been a
simple constructor of boats, his father never was beyond the captainship of a
simple square. She was later when the family ennobleció by the heroic services
of the Xarit'ha battle, naturally. But they had remained in a rank of little
level. A handful of people who as soon as it could exceed to those of his
lineage. Syranax like answer to these ill-fated days of hunger and misery, had
chosen officials being based only on the demonstrated ability. This way little
the important Delp hyr Orikan had been ascended, in few years to the second
higher position in Drak'ho. Its rise, nevertheless, had not exiled the rudeza
of its education, or, taught like behaving with real noble. If Delp were
popular with the most common sailors he was at the same time the one that take
refook with more misfortune on the part of many aristocrats. For them it
continued being, a parvenú, a coarse one, with the nerve that was reconciled
to a Sa Axollon. Once the protective wings of the admiral were folded with the
death... T'heonax savored ahead of time what it would happen to Delp Orikan.
Serious very easy to find some accusation to its name. The Executive
continued: - I feel It, Sir - it murmured - I did not mean... we are still so
profane in which it concerns this ample sea. The explorers saw this floating
object. He was something since never they had heard previously. Two of them
returned flying to give account to us of it and to request advice to us. I
went to see what it happened by same me. Sir, is truth! - a floating object
six times longer than longest of our canoes, like ice, and still, not even
like ice. - the Admiral shook his gray head. Very slowly he put the spark plug
in the lighter. But he was with unnecessary violence that lead pavilo to the
small wood cylinder of the pipe. Moving it from a part to another one, he
approximated the fire to the cazoleta of pipe and aspired deeply. - the
polished rock crystal more could have an aspect very similar to this device -
Delp was explained -. But not so shining. But not with so many sparkles. - and
there are animals that move in their interior? - Three, gentleman.
Approximately of our stature, or a little greater perhaps, but without wings
and tail. They are not indeed animals... I create. Apparently they wear suits
and I do not believe that the shining device has been conceived as a boat. One
moves between the waves abominably and it gives the impression of not being
able to change its location. - If it is not a boat nor another device come off
some port, then by all the Gods, from where it comes? of the depths? - I do
not create it, captain - Delp with irritation said -. If he were thus, the
beings whom there are in him would be fish or mammalian or... good, able for
swimming he gives all ways. But they are not it, have the aspect of a
terrestrial typical configuration nonapt for the flight, but for only having
four members. - Then, I must be conceited that they fell of the sky - said
with T'heonax ridicule. - it would not surprise to me absolutely - Delp in low
voice answered -. there is no another direction of where they have been able
to come. - T'heonax seated on its heels, with the completely opened mouth. But
his father only moved the head agreeing. - Very well - Syranax- murmured
enchants to me to see that there is a little imagination in all this. - But
from where they came, flying? - espetó T'heonax. - Perhaps our enemies of
Lannach have something to see with this - the Admiral said -. They much more
cover a great part with the world every year, that what we found place setting
in many generations; they have contact with a hundred of Barbarian tribes down
in the tropical and interchange the news there. - and women - T'heonax said.
It spoke in that mixture of desaprobante voice, that was characteristic of the
whole fleet when it watched the clothes of the emigrants. - That does not
matter - Delp responded. T'heonax responded with vividness: - You, puppy that
you put yourself from the low class, you dare... - the tip Closes! - Syranax
shouted. After a pause it continued: - I have made investigations between our
prisoners. In the meantime, it will be better than we send a fast canoe before
this object finds others. - They can be dangerous - T'heonax warned. - Exactly
- his father said -. If he is thus they will be better in our hands than if
for example they found the Lannach'onai and they made with them an alliance.
Dalp, takes the Temnis with an abundant and good crew. And it takes with you
to that type of the Lannach who we captured, how that professional linguist...
- Tolk is called? - a habitual pronunciación hurried in answering the
Executive little showing. - Yes Perhaps he can speak to them. It sends
explorers, once you are there so that fleet has me to current but mantente
sufficient moved away of them with main, until you are well safe that the
beings whom there are in that device, are to us inoffensive Mantente also
moved away until I have ruined any superstitious fear, about the marine
demons, but I know robust if you must be it. We always can request excuses
later... or send the bodies by the hut. Now, it flies! And Delp, voted.
Chapter 2
Desolation had to him catched. Even from this low and balanceante cruise of
the killer sky, Eric Wace could see an immensity of horizon. He thought that
immense dimension of this ring, where the pale sky was with the gray which
they formed the stormy clouds and túmulos, and the great ones you whip of the
waves, were sufficient to terrify a man. The aspect that presents/displays the
death that watchs to us had been faced previously, on the Earth, by many of
its ancestors; but the Earth horizon, was not so remote. It did not matter
that it was to a hundred of years light of his own sun. Such distances were
too great to be able to include/understand them; they became simple numbers,
and they did not scare to which counted in his salary a trip in spaceship per
week. Even the ten thousand kilometers of the opened ocean, to a world of only
a human group, people located there by special mission, did not mean more than
another number. Later, if it lived, Wace would have to dedicate a dying time,
asking itself how to be able to send a message throughout all this empty, but
at the moment too much it was occupied in staying with life. But the total
distance of the planet was something that it could see. This vision to him had
not become present before in its eighteen months of stay, but then it had as
much been isolated psychological as well as physically by a inconquistable
technical machinery. Now he was single in a vessel that sank and was twice but
far to be able to watch throughout the disagreeable waves of you limit them of
the world of which there was it been of the Earth. The cruise of the sky was
affected and balanced from a part to another one under a wild impact. Wace
lost its balance and slipped throughout curved metallic plates. With rage it
was looking for with his hands the cable of the light that whipped the boxes
of food in the navigation turret. If it went towards a side its boots and
dresses they would sink to him downwards like a stone. It was taken hold on
time and it was arranged to rest a little, the inopportune wave slapped its
face as if it was a humid and salty hand. Shaking of cold, Wace finished
fixing and to order the last box and to put it in its site and soon were
crawling towards the entrance hatchway. She was a small one and miserable
emergency door but the stroll of crystal cover on which the passengers had
taken a walk while the pilots of the cruise lead it through the sky, was full
of water and his adorned submerged bronze doors. The water had filled the
engine room now totally damaged, when they sank. Since then the ship had been
taking water around all doublings retaining walls, until all the ship was
together for pargo and last trip to the bottom of the sea. The wind happened
whistling through his debilitated fingers and to traverse of his wet hair,
trying to maintain open you hatchway while that Wace wanted to close it after
him. It had a fight against the typhoon. Typhoon? Demons, no! He had only the
speed of a wind which we had considered normal, but with superior an
atmospheric pressure six times and that whipped like a terrestrial storm, the
Condemned PLC 2987165 II! Damn the same PL, and the condemned Nicholas van
Rijn and still still more condemned Eric Wace to be as crazy as to work by the
Company! Briefly, while it fought against the hatchway, Wace watched over the
foam of the waves, as if it looked for a salvation. It did not descry more
than to a reddish sun and great storm cloud banks, dirty, in the north and a
few points, that probably belonged to the Earth in that they were. Satán hurt
with its rays those native people who did not come to help them. Those rays
would have at least to disappear while human beings suffocated, instead of
being suspended there in the sky rejoicing. Wace closed the hatchway, it
separated quickly of her and it lowered the stairs. On his feet it had to stay
with force against the shaken forts. Still it could hear the waves fighting
itself on the ship and the wind force. - He is everything in order? - Yes, my
lady - so much said as there is it been never. - What it is not much, no? -
Mrs. Sandra Tamarin exerted all her fulgor on him. After this she it did not
mean more than another shade in the dark of the dead ship -. But you seem a
drowned rat, friend mine. They see, we have dry clothes for you. Wace agreed
and it undressed of its wet jacket and it threw to the distant spot its dull
water floods. Ice cream without them had remained - they could not be to more
than five degrees Celsius but it seemed that those clothes had remained during
long time submerged in the ocean. Their teeth castañeaban while it followed it
her by the corridor. He was typical a high and young man of the north of
America, reddish hair, blue eyes and with characteristics of hardness in his
factions who pronounced themselves in all their full body of very developed
muscles. It had begun like apprentice in warehouses at the age of twelve
years, there far in the Earth and now it comprised of the Solar Company of
Especias and Licores in all the planet known with the name of Diomedes. It had
not been an elevation to his rank obtained at a surprising speed. The tactics
of go Rijn were to elevate in category in agreement with the results, that was
just like to obtain that a mentality of fast reflections, a fast revolver and
a clear vision of the things were favored by the opportunity at the ascent.
But had been the one of him, a solid one and good race with a future of
occupations on the less isolated and disagreeable positions, completed with an
executive position and as category back in the world to which it belonged
and... and why served all this if the waters more not knowing were going to
swallow to him in a few hours? At the end of the corridor where the navigation
turret rose, was again the cobrizo brightness of the sun that irritated its
nerves and that were seen in the sky below dark clouds, by the southwestern
part as the day declined. Lady Sandra left its torch and indicated towards a
place on the cover. To the other side were the outer clothes, reinforced,
smooth and protective clothes that he to need it before venturing itself again
in the outside being put under the equinoccial spring. - Ponte all this - it
said as soon as the boat begins to sink, we will have to leave the greater
speed to him. - Where it is Freeman van Rijn? - Wace asked. - Dedic I accept
to the last minutes of work on the raft. He is a very mañoso man with the
tools, right? But in a while a simple worker of the space was given. Wace
shrank of shoulders and hoped to that it went. - I have said to You that you
change - she said. - But... - Oh! - a tenuous smile never crossed its face I
thought about that there was a naked taboo on the Earth. - Good... not
exactly, I create, my lady. But after all you belong to the nobility, and I am
not more than a retailer. - Of republican planets as the Earth arrives the
worse ones from snobs - it said here all we are human beings. And now,
cámbiate quickly. I will become from backs if you wish it. Wace was contained
as rapidly as possible in its clothes. The glad unconcern that it showed, was
an unexpected balsam for me. It thought about the luck that always accompanied
to that goat gordinflona and old that was their fellow traveller goes Rijn. It
did not have straight! The collectors of Kermes speak to a large extent be a
great grouping and their descendants had made the truth like something
inherent in them, specially the aristocrats, after Kermes was proclaimed like
great ducado an independent one during the Rupture. Lady Sandra Tamarin was
almost as high as he and their devoid dresses of winter of form did not get to
completely hide the full silhouette of feminidad. It had a face too much it
last to be beautiful: extended front, great mouth, small nose, pómulos salient
but with great and torn green eyes under very black eyebrows, that were
prettiest than Wace had never seen. Its hair was long, straight, blond ash and
that was gathered in a species of moño at that moment but that Wace had seen
floating freely under a crown the light of a candle. - you are Already ready,
Freeman Wace? - Oh... I feel it, lady. I was thinking. Only a little while and
I am prepared! - the túnica put on him that had to cover all the body to him,
but it left it without getting to close the rack. Still it was left a certain
human aspect in its clothes -. Yes, already I am. I request pardon to him. -
she does not have importance - it became. In the small space in which they
could move, their bodies were close. She watched at the outside towards the
sky -. Those native ones, not yet are here? - That I create lady. Too high for
me to be able to be safe but they they can rise to several kilometers of
eniente height without inconv. - Me I have asked it same me but I have not had
the opportunity to find out. I thought that it could not have flying animals
of the stature of a man, and these Diomedanos has six meters in width with the
extended wings. How? Now ask you this? She sonr ió. - we are only waiting for
Freeman van Rijn. What another thing we can do that to speak of curiosities?
-... we will help... to finish that raft soon Him, but we will sink. - it said
to Me that we had only sufficient batteries for a short trip, so that soon he
will be ready. Please, it continues speaking. The aristocrats of Kermes, have
their customs and taboos, to even die correctly. What another thing is a man,
but an accumulation costumary and taboos? Its dry voice had certain vivacity,
she smiled a little, but he wondered himself to what extent the position that
she adopted was real. To the demon with that farce! he had meant he. We are
sunk in the ocean of a planet, whose life is to us poisonous. There is an
island to a few hundreds of kilometers of here, but we only know its direction
vaguely. Perhaps we pruned perhaps or perhaps no, to finish the raft on time,
to save the fuel tanks and we pruned although he is not safe, to load in her
our rations on time human type; and all this will depend on the storm that is
forming in the north. These were native that watched over our heads does a few
hours, but since then have let be... before us, or... to watch us, any thing
less to offer aid to us. Somebody hates you to him or to the old one they go
Rijn, meant. To me, I am not the sufficiently important thing so that they
hate to me. But van Rijn is the solar company of Especias and Licores, which
means a great power in Liga Polesotécnica, the one that is greatest to be able
in the well-known galaxy. And you are Lady Sandra inheriting Tamarin of the
throne of a whole planet - if you live that you have despised many supplies of
marriage of its declining one and worn down aristocracy, preferring publicly
to look for by other parts a father for your children, so that the next Great
Duke of Kermes can be a man and not a reason for ridicules. And many
cortesanos must fear their access. Oh, if, had meant he, was very many people
who would leave winning, if as much Nicholas van Rijn or Sandra Tamarin, did
not manage to return Era one galantería calculated on the other hand to him to
have offered a trip in their particular ship from Antares where was she in the
Earth doing high in the way which always they were interesting. At least it
could look for commercial concessions in the Ducado. When more, no, as soon as
it could obtain a true alliance; there was too much demon put in him. He (more
intelligent and innocent fort) never would even allow that he rested his heavy
innkeepers on the armchairs of your parents. But I go nomadic, my beloved, had
to quer gone to say he; and the cause is that somebody in the crew of the
boat, had been bribed. The scheme of the bribe well was perpetrated; that
somebody looked for its opportunity. It arrived when you took earth on
Diomedes, to see how it is true and unexpected a new planet, a planet where
until the main continental configurations they had been you lower certain in
the maps, during little the five years that a handful of men had here been.
The opportunity arrived when said myself I of conduciros to you and my old one
endiablado head to those mountains to half of way around this world, that has
been designated like a spectacular scene. A pump in the main generator, a
cruel crew, engineer and disappeared butlers of crew in the blowing of the
death, the head of my copilot destroyed when sinking to us in the sea, the
destroyed radio, and the latest that is of despoliation is going to sink long
before which in Thursday Landing they begin to worry itself by us and come to
look for to us. And in case we survive, it even is that there will be the
small opportunity from which a few spaceships, crossing a unknown world almost
in the maps, twice greater than the Earth, can get to see three human beings
to fly on him? Anyway, it had wanted to indicate, since all our schemes and
adaptations have not lead to us more than to this, would not be of more than
we forgot them during just a short time that we have left and on his place she
kissed to me. But its throat was closed and he did not say anything of all
this. - Therefore? - an impatience note was reflected in the voice of Sandra
-. very you are shut up, Freeman Wace. - I feel It, my lady - it murmured - I
believe that I am not very apt to establish conversation under... hum, these
circumstances. - I feel much not to be described for ofrecerte the consolation
as the religion - she with sharp sarcasm said. A great white wave raised over
the outer cover, and reached the turret. They noticed as the steel and the
plastic shook as a result of the blow. During a little while, while P! water
crowded they remained in a blind person and tenebrous runruneamiento. Soon,
while it was clarified, and Wace saw how far despoliation had arrived and it
asked if they would get to be able to be able to reach the raft of go Rijn,
that was outside of the hatchway, and were a whiteness that blinded its eyes.
First it did not believe it and soon it had not believed it because one did
not dare, but later no longer could deny it. - Lady Sandra - it spoke with
immense well-taken care of; it did not have to notify to shouts to her like a
terrestrial one of more low quality. - Yes? - It did not separate the Vista of
the contemplation of the North part of the completely empty horizon, except of
clouds and light. - There, my lady. Towards the Southeastern. She would
believe... sails, fighting itself against the wind. - What? - She was like a
exteriorización on the part of her. Something that made laugh aloud to Wace. -
a boat or something similar - it indicated who comes in this direction. - she
did not know that the native ones were marine - she in voice said is. - they
are not it, my lady... in the environs of Thursday Landing - it talked back
but this it is a great planet, approximately four times the area of the Earth
surface, and we only know a small part a continent. - Then, you do not know as
they are these sailors? - My lady, I do not have nor the smaller Idea.
Chapter 3
Nicholas van Rijn arrived giving to shouts when hearing those of its fellow
traveller. - Condemnation - it shouted - a boat you said? Better serious than
it was a shark if you are not mistaken, Condemnation! - It was towards the
turret and it watched towards outside through the plastic and with salt water
incrustations. The light was very tenuous and also due to the proximity of the
loaded storm clouds that whipped with the air their face. - Therefore what is
that, where it is that pestilente boat? - There Sir - that sailboat said to
Wace-. - Swift-sailing Powder and bullets in your cement head that is a
boat... no, hopes, condemnation, is a true very rudimentary boat although with
a main mast and everything, ja! and what way to handle has it, it must have a
quite great rudder, that all the Gods help us! A species of boat goes! - What
another thing could wait for you in a planet without mortals? - Wace said.
Their nerves were too sensible for him, to remember the deference that had to
the prince of the merchants. - Hum... that is not more than rescue boats,
perhaps some other species of rare boats, quickly, dame dressed dry, this is
too cold for naked monkeys. Wace realized of which they go Rijn was put in a
pool species and that the bitter water of the sea got to along with cover
until its figure its legs. - I know where they are, Nicholas - Sandra said
going towards the part of the corridor. The boat put every minute more
dangerous than it happened as the water entered through all the parts of the
same one. Wace helped its head to undress of the coverall that took. Naked,
they go Rijn remembered gorila of two meters of very velludo stop and with a
belly, with its backs very bent. Shouting to great voices its indignation and
the cold and the humidity and the slowness of its assistants. But a great ring
flashed in their heavy fingers and bracelets in their wrist and a small medal
of San Dimas hung of their neck. On the contrary to Wace that found more
practitioner a very short haircut and to shave itself very well, they go Rijn
left his oily one and black hair was encaracolase and, to take it long to the
last fashion, also letting grow his acierated moustaches below its nose. It
entered the department of navigation with force and murmuring until it found a
bottle of rum. - Ahhh! I knew that this damn bottle had hidden it I somewhere,
it put the bottle in his lips and gave three or four drinks. Good, very good!
now I feel like a human man and respectable. It gave average return doing to
remember a majestic planet when Sandra returned. The only dresses that it had
found that they could conv enir to him to him, were the his own ones, those of
him, a species of shirt with great bows and adornments in the part of the
figure, trousers with great reflections of silk and averages, shoes and a hat
of pens. - Thanks - he with courtesy now Wace said while seen me, he sees
Perfect the living room and there you will find a bottle of and a box of
Perfect and a small bottle of apple juice. Please, he sees look for them and
soon he sees outside find our guests. - Blessed San Pedro! - the living room
shouted Wace- is already full of water. - Ah? - they go Rijn sighed - then we
needed only the bottle apple juice, now sees express, you do what you can. -
It made crack its fingers. Wace said very quickly. - we do not have time,
gentleman, I must make still all the route of the ship and to look for our
ammunition, these native ones could be hostile. - If they have heard speak
others to us, it is possible - she acceded go Rijn. It began to put his
clothes inner of natural silk -. Brrrr. Five thousand spark plugs would right
now give to be in my office of Amsterdam! - To what santo you would offer
them? - Lady Sandra asked. - To San Nicholas, my christian name... pattern of
the nomadic ones and... - San Nicholas would want it better in writing - she
said, go Rijn had a acierated glance but one cannot speak nor answer the
heiress of a nation, with important commercial concessions to offer. It spent
some time before they were outside. They go Rijn one was worried to leave by
the emergency hatch and had to be pushed. The period of rotation of Diomedes
was only of twelve hours and average and this latitude of 30 North degrees was
still in the side of the winter equinox; thus the sun was arriving at the low
part from the sea at a devilish speed. They arrived at the superior part and
they left drags it of the wind along with cracked the waves on them. They
could not make another thing. - it is not a place for a poor old and fat man -
it whispered go Rijn, the typhoon took the words over him and it made fly over
him and it made fly over the stirred up sea. Better it would be than I had had
left in house in Holland where he is so lukewarm and I do not lose my few last
years of life in squandering it here. Wace directed its eyes towards the
waves. The boat approached. At the same time it could appreciate the masters
of the crew and go Rijn did not abstain in praising them. - I would put to
them in the club Sunday Yacht, condenac ion, yes! and to put them in the next
regatas betting by them. It was a boat of more than thirty meters in length
with a good elaboration in his candles but he did not have the speed and the
prestancia of other boats. - the diomedanos - the tone of Sandra was still in
its ears under the threatening wind and the humming of waters -. You have
spoken with them sometimes during a year and means, no? What we can hope of
them? Wace shrank of shoulders: - What we can hope of a tribe of humans back
in the age gives stone? They could be cannibal poets or or both things.
Everything what I know is the tribe of Tyrlanian that is hunting emigrants.
They always stay according to the letter of their laws; they are not very
scrupulous as soon as if spirit, naturally but is in general a decent tribe. -
You speak its language? - I speak It whichever allows me my to paladar human
and my tecnoterrestre culture, my lady. I do not mean that he can
include/understand all his concepts but I get out of trouble myself. Exhausted
the spaceship moved, heard as the walls crujían and the water that entered on
the inside and at the same time felt like a convulsion under their feet.
Sandra fell against him. Then it could appreciate drops frozen in his
eyebrows. - This does not mean that I will include/understand the local
language - it finished we are more far from Tyrlan than Europe of China. The
canoe was now almost on them, never had been able to arrive more on time. What
it was of the spaceship was going to sink in some minutes, arrived on time,
the sailors threw cords, an anchor of sea and fornidos arms delivered all the
attacks to remove to them from the water. Slowly then a diomedano approached
with a cord. Other two went closely together to their side, of course noticed
being guards. First of them one approached and it watched the humans. Tyrlan
being very to the north, many of their inhabitants, not yet had returned from
the tropical; and this one was the first diomedano that Sandra had found. It
very was wet, it had much cold and incapable to be able to enjoy the presence
and the cruel grace of his movements but despite she watched with much
thoroughness. Possibly it would have to live with this race during long time
if it is that they did not kill it. It was of the stature of a small man, with
a thick tail of a meter of long and finishing in a species of rudder grasiento
and tremendous wings that were folded on their back. Their arms were under the
wings near half of the body and had an aspect that remembered something human,
under their muscle hands full with five fingers. The legs were less familiar,
curved backwards from the feet with four heels that could have almost belonged
to a prow bird. The head at the end of the neck that had been twice more
length than the one of a human, was round, with an ample forehead of yellow
eyes and with membranes under thick eyebrows, a black nose in a face that had
short whiskers and a great mouth with oseznos teeth of the fat dining rooms.
It did not have external ears but they had a full muscle crest in the head
that helped them to control the flight. It covered a brown species to them of
skin; he was really a mammalian male. It dressed two belts that happened
through their "backs" and a third that tied in their figure and pair leather
bags that hung of the same one. It took a knife, an axe of pedernal. Through
the thick dark it was very difficult to guess what class of arms took their
companions, was something long and thin, but that surely was not rifle,
because in this planet there was copper nor no iron. Wace inclined towards
ahead and forced its language to pronounce some syllables of tyrlaniano. -
We... are... friends. Me... he includes/understands... you? All one retahíla
of totally strange words was against him. One shrank and it extended its
hands. The diomedano became through the spaceship and its body inclined
towards dejante while it balanced his wings and their tail, and quickly tied
its own cord to the same place in which they were tied anc those of the
spaceship. - a square knot - it said Go Rijn almost, calmly makes desire me
return to house. In the other end of the cord they began to tie the canoe. The
diomedano returned its face to Wace and indicated to its vessel. Wace agreed
but suddenly account occurred that the gesture was probably without no meaning
and took a very precarious step in that direction there. The diomedano took
another cord and it passed it over him. It indicated towards there to the
humans and made gestures. - Already I include/understand - it said Go Rijn -,
they do not dare to approach more. He is too feasible that their boats explode
against us. We must tie this cord to us around our bodies and they will hoist
to us. Blessed it is Cristóbal, what things must to him make to an old poor
man man with the already too hard bones! - But nevertheless it is left our
food - Wace said. The cruise of the sky still moved and lowered more, the
diomedano moved with nervousness. - No, not - it shouted Go Rijn -. it had the
impression that if shouted enough it could be made understand and penetrate in
the linguistic barrier. Their arms extended. - you never include/understand to
me, species of idiot? Bond more than we suffocate in which it is of our boat
in this pestilente ocean, that to try to eat your food. We will die! We will
have pains belly! Suicide! - its mouth Indicated, gave blows in its abdomen
and indicated the rations. Wace realized of which these demonstrations were
too dangerous. Here they had a planet with oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon,
sulfide and biochemical proteins that formed genes, chromosomes, cells,
weaves, protoplasma to give a reasonable definition, and the human that tried
to eat a fruit or meat of the diomedanos, would later die ten minutes of fifty
any allergic reactions. They were not the appropriate proteins. In fact only
certain foods would cause that the men did not reach chronic diseases like
asthma and other manifestations that could be reached in the air that they
breathed or the water that drank. It had today been during many hours,
reuniting all the supplyings of food that they had in the cruise to bring them
to the boats. This lujurioso atmospheric vessel in which it had arrived with
Goes Rijn was quick to do orgías of "picnic" when they assaulted the desire to
them. It was full of bread, mantequilla sweet, Edam cheese, smoked salmon,
peaches, fruits in conserve, chocolate, pudín, beer, came and God knows how
many other things to allow that three human beings could be there during
months. The diomedano extended its wings doing to hit at the same time them
and fluttering to stay still on. The merchant hoped estólido indicating once
in a while with the finger towards the accumulated boxes. Finally the
diomedano reached the idea or simply it gave with her. But it was very just a
short time that to lose. He indicated towards the canoe, one of his companions
he arrived, he undid the fastenings and he began to transport boxes. Wace
helped Sandra to tie the cord around her. - I am afraid that one will get wet
before very many gives to reach the boat, my lady - he said trying to smile.
She made a gesture of indifference. - Therefore this she is pioneering Bravo
between stars. I will say it to my cut of poets when she returns to house if
she is that I return. When it had crossed and the cord had descended, They go
Rijn made signs to Wace. , They go Rijn was discussing with the diomedano
head. All this was carried out in the true one and real language among them,
Wace did not know it but they had reached a point in which the indignation
shouts were sent from one to another one. As well as Wace had reached the
boat, They go Rijn seated on the cruise of the sky and it did not want to
move. And when youngest, Wace made its arrival to the soaked boat of water,
the merchant had won evidently the battle. A diomedano could raise
approximately fifty kilos in short distances in the air. Three of them
improvised a cord who tied of an a others and hung of her to Go Rijn to
transport it over the water. , they go Rijn not yet had reached the canoe when
the cruise of the sky sank.
Chapter 4
The boat took on her a hundred of native all armed, some dressing helmets and
constructed laminated leather armors, a catapult that as soon as it was seen
through the dark, was mounted in the cover; in addition it had a cabin done of
trunks and covered of marine seaweed that finished by the final part in a
species of carabela of medieval style. In the ceiling two men directed a long
rudder. - It is well sure we have found a navigation boat - he shouted Go Rijn
-, it is not so good but in aim. With a retailer I can speak; with a
pestilente official and bridles of silver in its brain I only can shout. -,
entrecerró the eyes directing them towards the night where the crack of the
storm became sensible. - I am a pecador poor man - it shouted - but this I
have not deserved it. You hear to me? After a little one tied the humans and
one went to them towards a cabin. The boat had begun to run before the
typhoon. The balance, the murmur of the waves and the wind and the
thunderclaps, had made echo in the conscience of Wace. It wanted, to only find
a place where he was dry, to take off its clothes soaked in water and to let
themselves fall in a bed and sleep during one hundred of years. The cabin was
small. Three humans and two diomedanos let site hardly to seat. But she was
lukewarm and a stone lamp hung of the ceiling and threw a tenuous full light
of grotescas shades with the movement. The native one which it habíase found
first with them was present. Its crystal dagger took it in a hand and it on
the lookout maintained it like a lion; but half of its attention seemed to be
concentrated in the other that was supported and was older, with gray tufts in
its hair, and that was tied in one of the corners with a cord piece. The eyes
of Sandra were narrowed. The diomedano with the knife watched through the room
and Go Rijn swore: - You, species of idiot, want to let see to us how is a
weapon? First the native one said something to which it was tied. This last
one made a species of answer with gruñido and soon it became towards the
humans. When it spoke it did not sound what as if said was the same language
that the one of the others. - Thus, then! An interpreter! - he said Go Rijn -.
You, to speak English? Hw, hw, hw! - a blow in its thigh occurred. - No, it
hopes, more bond to prove - it said, and then Wace was expressed in
tyrlaniano. - understand you to Me? It is possibly the only conversation that
we pruned to have together in common. The captive raised his encrestada head
and seated on his hands and their heels. What responded was almost familiar. -
It speaks very slowly, please - Wace said, and then it felt how all the dream
that before watched it left him. Something that it could include/understand
arrived to him. - You do not use a version of the Carnoy that I have heard
before. - Carnoy? Wait for, if, one of the tyrlanianos has mentioned a
confederation of tribes far from the South and who they have such name. I am
using the language of a type of Tyrlania. - I do not know this race, they do
not invernan in our fields. Nor either carnoy like regular thing, but once in
a while does not do it when all of them are in the tropical some arrives at
pas ar this way, therefore - and then he said something ininteligible. The
diomedano with the knife said something, impatient and gave a sharp answer.
The interpreter said to Wace: - I am Tolk, a moohera of the Lannachska. - what
of what? - Wace said. It is not easy human beings to even talk when they must
use a jargon different from a strange language. The dense accent imposed by
human the buccal cords and the ears of the diomedano - that heard to them in a
species of subsound, but did not get to reach the complete conversation; the
declination of the maximum answers was different -, to the aim Wace it needed
a few hours to be able to be made understand in a information of a few
phrases. Tolk was a specialistic linguist of the great tribe of Lannach, was
one of its functions to learn each one of the languages that arrived at their
tribe and which they were many. Perhaps its title could be denominated
heraldo, because their duties included a great amount of ceremonial subjects
and presided over all the messengers of the body. Flock was in war with
draconay, and Tolk had been captured in a recent skirmish. The other diomedano
present was called Delp and been a high official of much rank of draconay.
Wace posponed speaking much about itself, not only by desire to be somewhat
reserved as far as him, but who because account of the so difficult task
occurred that it would be to be made include/understand. It requested to Tolk
that noticed Delp to him that the food which they had removed from the cruise,
as well as was essential for the earth men, could kill the diomedanos. - and
why this would have to say I to him - Tolk with a scorn gesture asked from the
human point of view, he was very disagreeable. - If not it beams - Wace said,
can repel on you when he knows that you did not do it. - It is truth. Tolk
spoke to Delp. The official gave a fast answer. - He says that any damage will
not be done to you unless you want it thus - Tolk explained -, it says that
you must learn his language so that you can speak with him. - What is what it
is saying? - he interrupted Go Rijn. Wace explained it. They go Rijn exploded.
- What? What says? To have left here we until the death and all the demons of
the world? But damn am, already would explain I to him! Wace rose on its feet.
The wings of Delp, fluttered until becoming to put in their site. It showed
his teeth. The door was opened and a pair of guards watched the interior. One
of them took tomahawk and another one took a species of wood saber that
flashed. They go Rijn took the hand towards its revolver. The voice of Delp
spread in the room. Tolk translated: - It says that we have calm. - After to
have spoken a little more and with considerable ones, efforts to be able to
guess at some moments the part between Wace and Tolk, were explained: - he
does not wish badly no, but he also must think about his town. You are
something new. To perhaps you prune to help him or perhaps you are so bad for
him that not you allow marcharos. I have to have time to discover it. You must
yourselves undress of everything what you take above and leave it to its
position. On the other hand he will provide to you with other dresses since
account occurs of which you do not have skins that cover to you. When Wace had
interpreted all this for the merchant Goes Rijn said with surprise: - I
believe that we do not have election at this moment. We could get rid of many
of them. Perhaps we could empower completely of the boat. But we cannot sail
all the way until our earth by we ourself. - Without nothing else that what we
have we would die of hunger by the way. If I were younger... by good San
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