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."Why can't we go together?" "Impossible I'll explain later ".Her eyes widened as she looked past me "Oh-oh They're out "."Give me that " I grabbed the needier and handed her helmet to her.She dropped the paralyzer as she accepted her helmet "But I don't " she wassaying even as her.helmet clicked into place I pressed her departure control and she vanished inmid-sentence.The followers might not have seen us before that point, but the loud p pcaused by Tara's body o departing was sure to tell them where I was I clickedthe needier control to rapid fire and sprayed.needles toward the cauliflower tree until the magazine emptied.I snapped on my helmet and began to run, zig-zagging as I went Layer one wasabout eleven times.smaller than layer zero, so if Tara and I were a meter apart when we jumpedfrom here, we'd wind up superimposed And dead.Ahead and to my right, a clump of the upper growth of a small cauliflower treeburst into flames I.ducked lower and ran to my left.I swerved and dodged as I ran I was almost as far as I needed to be when mysuited foot caught a root.protruding from the ground.I pitched forward, and another laser hit ignited shrubbery in front of me as Ipushed the switch on my chest The world went black and gravity vanished.Page 243 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlI tumbled in the darkness, thankful to be intact I wondered how familiar theshooter back there in layer.zero was with the concepts of hyperspace and jumpsuits For all I knew, hecould have thought he just.shot a balloon and popped it.As my eyes adjusted to the dimmer light, I could see the control images on theinside of my helmet I.turned on my shoulder lights and radio."Tara, can you hear me?" No reply.I told myself the reason for that was probably as simple as Tara's not knowinghow to turn on her radio.But I worried I saw nothing of her jumpsuit reflected back from my shoulderlights I couldn't see the.beams, but a glow around the rims of the lights told me they were indeed on.I told my jumpsuit jets to stop my tumbling I felt several pushes against mychest, and a moment later the.blood pressure in my head seemed to diminish Still no sign of Tara.With the jets I twisted to my left and there she was I jetted slowly towardher."Are you all right?" I said when I was able to touch my helmet to hers Icouldn't see her face without.pointing my shoulder lights directly into her eyes."Now I am " The conduction path made her voice tinny "How do you turn on theradio? And are you all.right?""I'm fine now " I told her how to use her eyes to command jumpsuit functionsWe both switched our suit.radios to local communications.Tara's shoulder lights turned on, and her voice began coming through my helmetspeakers."I can hear you fine," I said."Much better Now where are we?"."We're adrift in layer one We still need to get back to the same layer the.Redshift is in Are you ready toPage 244 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html.jump again?""Tell me what's going on first Why did we have to jump separately? And Ithought the speed of light was.slower here in hyperspace, but I'm not noticing any communication lag "."It is slower, but only by about a factor of five and a half Each layer outfrom zero it drops that same.ratio Corresponding distances drop at twice that rate, so the speed-of-lighttravel time drops by a factor.of two for each level Clear?"."Enough for now, I suppose So if we were a meter apart now and we jumped backto layer zero, we'd.be eleven meters apart And if.we jump to layer two we'll be one eleventh of a meter apart, so so we'd killeach other we'd overlap "."Right Each time we jump another layer toward ten, we'll have to separate Ourlifebelts will keep our.internal activities going at the proper speed " I considered telling her thatif we jumped to layer ten right.now, we'd also jump directly into theRedshift, assuming it was anywhere close to Xanahalla The volume.of a small solar system in layer zero would all map into the volume of theRedshift in layer ten A.ship-controlled jump from layer ten to layer zero could be focused, but,unassisted, we would materialize at points corresponding to our centers ofgravity."All right," she said "I'm ready I think "."One more thing Were you able to get one of the collar controllers?"."It's on my wrist " "You're beautiful "."Tell me that when you can see me ".Mayb e I willI thought Aloud I said "We'd better get ready for the next jump Set yourcontrols for layer., ,.two "Page 245 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html.When Tara and I were both ready I gently pushed against her suit I let ourseparation increase to about,.twenty meters before I said, "See you in the next layer," I said "Go when Ireach zero Three-two.one zero ".This time the translation was less disconcerting Despite the brief flash oflight, going from zero-gee in.black vacuum to zero-gee in black vacuum was comfortable Tara winked out ofexistence and an instant.later she was there again, hardly more than a meter away I couldn't tell whohad been first to reach layer.two."That was easy," Tara said "Are the rest of the jumps going to be like that?"."Pretty much But we have to be careful before the last ".We set up for a jump to layer three and separated again With a series of jumpsand separations, we.reached layer nine Since the speed of light here was between fifty and sixtymeters per second, an almost.imperceptible delay told me we were getting close to what had been normal forme for years My.shoulder lights swung past Tara, and the lamps seemed to be aimed slightlybehind where I knew them to be."All right," I said "This time has to be different We could be sitting righton top of the ship right now, and.there's no way I can tell for sure It's a sphere with a diameter slightly overfifty meters, so that means it.overlaps this space with a sphere with a diameter of about eleven times thatAbout half a kilometer.We've got to get at least a couple of kilometers from here to be safe, and Ican't accurately gauge our speed, so we'll have to underestimate it ".We linked arms and both gave our jets a long blast The force felt as strong asin a quickly accelerating [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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."Why can't we go together?" "Impossible I'll explain later ".Her eyes widened as she looked past me "Oh-oh They're out "."Give me that " I grabbed the needier and handed her helmet to her.She dropped the paralyzer as she accepted her helmet "But I don't " she wassaying even as her.helmet clicked into place I pressed her departure control and she vanished inmid-sentence.The followers might not have seen us before that point, but the loud p pcaused by Tara's body o departing was sure to tell them where I was I clickedthe needier control to rapid fire and sprayed.needles toward the cauliflower tree until the magazine emptied.I snapped on my helmet and began to run, zig-zagging as I went Layer one wasabout eleven times.smaller than layer zero, so if Tara and I were a meter apart when we jumpedfrom here, we'd wind up superimposed And dead.Ahead and to my right, a clump of the upper growth of a small cauliflower treeburst into flames I.ducked lower and ran to my left.I swerved and dodged as I ran I was almost as far as I needed to be when mysuited foot caught a root.protruding from the ground.I pitched forward, and another laser hit ignited shrubbery in front of me as Ipushed the switch on my chest The world went black and gravity vanished.Page 243 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlI tumbled in the darkness, thankful to be intact I wondered how familiar theshooter back there in layer.zero was with the concepts of hyperspace and jumpsuits For all I knew, hecould have thought he just.shot a balloon and popped it.As my eyes adjusted to the dimmer light, I could see the control images on theinside of my helmet I.turned on my shoulder lights and radio."Tara, can you hear me?" No reply.I told myself the reason for that was probably as simple as Tara's not knowinghow to turn on her radio.But I worried I saw nothing of her jumpsuit reflected back from my shoulderlights I couldn't see the.beams, but a glow around the rims of the lights told me they were indeed on.I told my jumpsuit jets to stop my tumbling I felt several pushes against mychest, and a moment later the.blood pressure in my head seemed to diminish Still no sign of Tara.With the jets I twisted to my left and there she was I jetted slowly towardher."Are you all right?" I said when I was able to touch my helmet to hers Icouldn't see her face without.pointing my shoulder lights directly into her eyes."Now I am " The conduction path made her voice tinny "How do you turn on theradio? And are you all.right?""I'm fine now " I told her how to use her eyes to command jumpsuit functionsWe both switched our suit.radios to local communications.Tara's shoulder lights turned on, and her voice began coming through my helmetspeakers."I can hear you fine," I said."Much better Now where are we?"."We're adrift in layer one We still need to get back to the same layer the.Redshift is in Are you ready toPage 244 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html.jump again?""Tell me what's going on first Why did we have to jump separately? And Ithought the speed of light was.slower here in hyperspace, but I'm not noticing any communication lag "."It is slower, but only by about a factor of five and a half Each layer outfrom zero it drops that same.ratio Corresponding distances drop at twice that rate, so the speed-of-lighttravel time drops by a factor.of two for each level Clear?"."Enough for now, I suppose So if we were a meter apart now and we jumped backto layer zero, we'd.be eleven meters apart And if.we jump to layer two we'll be one eleventh of a meter apart, so so we'd killeach other we'd overlap "."Right Each time we jump another layer toward ten, we'll have to separate Ourlifebelts will keep our.internal activities going at the proper speed " I considered telling her thatif we jumped to layer ten right.now, we'd also jump directly into theRedshift, assuming it was anywhere close to Xanahalla The volume.of a small solar system in layer zero would all map into the volume of theRedshift in layer ten A.ship-controlled jump from layer ten to layer zero could be focused, but,unassisted, we would materialize at points corresponding to our centers ofgravity."All right," she said "I'm ready I think "."One more thing Were you able to get one of the collar controllers?"."It's on my wrist " "You're beautiful "."Tell me that when you can see me ".Mayb e I willI thought Aloud I said "We'd better get ready for the next jump Set yourcontrols for layer., ,.two "Page 245 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html.When Tara and I were both ready I gently pushed against her suit I let ourseparation increase to about,.twenty meters before I said, "See you in the next layer," I said "Go when Ireach zero Three-two.one zero ".This time the translation was less disconcerting Despite the brief flash oflight, going from zero-gee in.black vacuum to zero-gee in black vacuum was comfortable Tara winked out ofexistence and an instant.later she was there again, hardly more than a meter away I couldn't tell whohad been first to reach layer.two."That was easy," Tara said "Are the rest of the jumps going to be like that?"."Pretty much But we have to be careful before the last ".We set up for a jump to layer three and separated again With a series of jumpsand separations, we.reached layer nine Since the speed of light here was between fifty and sixtymeters per second, an almost.imperceptible delay told me we were getting close to what had been normal forme for years My.shoulder lights swung past Tara, and the lamps seemed to be aimed slightlybehind where I knew them to be."All right," I said "This time has to be different We could be sitting righton top of the ship right now, and.there's no way I can tell for sure It's a sphere with a diameter slightly overfifty meters, so that means it.overlaps this space with a sphere with a diameter of about eleven times thatAbout half a kilometer.We've got to get at least a couple of kilometers from here to be safe, and Ican't accurately gauge our speed, so we'll have to underestimate it ".We linked arms and both gave our jets a long blast The force felt as strong asin a quickly accelerating [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]