Benford, Gregory - The Voice

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THE VOICE

by Gregory Benford

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Printed in Year's Best SF 3

HarperPrism

ISBN 0-06-105901-3

eBook scanned & proofed by binwiped 11-10-02 [v1.0]

I don't believe it." Qent said sternly.

Klair tugged him down the musty old corridor. "Come on, turn off your Voice.

Mine is—I showed you."

"Stuff on walls, whoever heard of—"

"There's another one further along."

Down the narrow, dimly lit hallway they went, to a recessed portion of the

permwall. "See—another sign."

"This? Some old mark. What's a 'sign' anyway?"

"This one says—" she shaped the letters to herself carefully—"PASSAGE

DENIED."

Qent thumbed on his Voice impatiently. He blinked. "That's ... what the Voice

says."

"See?"

"You've been here before and the Voice told you."

"I let you pick the corridor, remember? A fair trial."

"You cheated."

"No! I can read it." Read. The very sound of the word made her pulse thump.

Qent paused a second and she knew he was consulting the Voice again. "And

'read' means to untangle things, I see. This 'sign' tells you PASSAGE DENIED?

How?"

"See those?—they're letters. I know each one—there are twenty-six, it takes a lot

of work—and together they shape words."

"Nonsense," Qent said primly. "Your mouth shapes words."

"I have another way. My way."

He shook his head and she had to take him on to another sign and repeat the

performance. He grimaced when the Voice told him that indeed, the markings meant

ALDENTEN SECTOR. "A trick. Your Voice is on. You just rigged your

touchpad—"

"Here, take my insert!" She thrust it into his hand and made him walk to the next

emblem. "MANUFAC DIST, that way."

"I know an arrow when I see it," he said sarcastically. But the rest of it—what's

DIST mean?"

She had hoped he wouldn't ask that. "Maybe it means a place."

"Like a neighborhood?"

"Could be—in fact, yes, 'district.' If there wasn't room to write it all out, they'd

shorten a word."

"And who were 'they'? Some magicians?"

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