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Show She thought about that for a moment, for the matter was of a mixed condition. In truth, she might well have invited it in as a guest! Mayhap she could but consider this stiffness the result of sitting about, for indeed she'd been sitting in plenty, keying that data in. Mayhap she could but besir herself with her foil, take her old charger, Jimbo, through his paces, and limber herself up a bit. After all, this was BauerWorlde indeed, and all the Doctors, even some among the Yeofolk, Techs, and Merchants, even certain ones among the Managers, felt obliged to live the BauerWorlde Commendium's knightly life. She might indeed turn it away for a season-the disease. Pray Saint Ida, she might do such for many seasons! Dr'Anya smiled to herself, took a sip of tea, and bethought herself of a trip thither into the HighTartars that divided BauerWorlde's continent directly down the middle, thinking about those sharp peaks, incredible winds, a wild place-otherworldly. Otherworldly? Then, in faith, how seemed the planet itself to the the settlers from Earth so long ago, with its rosy suns taking up so much of the sky? Earthlike it was most truly, and yet not like Earth at all: everything writ so large, the colors so unexpectedly deeper and brighter, the plant and animal life of a certainty outlandish indeed-and huge- compared to Earth's. Terrifying it must have been, truly, with the Twins watching their every daylight movement like two gravid heads, circling each other endlessly,- taking turns peering at them-as it were-over each other's shoulder. And the HighTartars and their store of wildlife were terrifying even to BauerWorlders, to the Managers, for instance, the Bauercrats, who were full fearful of even leaving the blessed soil to ride 22 |
