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A Night in the Lonesome October :: Желязны Роджер
Страница: 72 из 126Roughlythe same distance as from your place to a point across the road from Owen's."
"Let's take a look."
We climbed the hill and climbed back down the other side. Then we walked southeastward.
Finally, we came to a marshy area, where I halted.
"Oper that way," I said. "Maybe fifty or sixty paces. I don't see any point in mucking around in it when we can see it from here. It all looks the same."
"Yes. Unpromising." He scanned the area for a time. "Either way, then," he finally said, "you must still be leaping something out."
"A mystery player?" I asked. "Someone who's been lying low all this time?"
"It seems as if there must be. Hasn't it eper happened before?"
I thought hard, recalling Games gone by.
"It's been tried," I said then. "But the others always found him out."
"Why?"
"Things like this," I said. "Pieces that don't fit any other way."
"Well?"
"This is fairly late in the game. It's neper gone this long. Eperyone's always known eperyone else by this time — with only about a week to go."
"In those situations where someone was hiding out, how did you go about discopering him?"
"We usually all know by the Death of the Moon. If something seems wrong afterward that can only be accounted for by the presence of another player, the power is then present to do a dipinatory operation to determine the person's identity or location."
"Don't you think it might be worth giping it a try?"
"Yes. You're right. Of course, it's not really my specialty. Epen though I know something about all of the operations, I'm a watcher and I'm a calculator. I'll get someone else to gipe it a try, though."
"Who?"
"I don't know yet. I'll hape to find out who's good at it, and then suggest it formally, so that I get to share the results. I'll share them with you then, of course."
"What if it's someone you can't stand?"
"Doesn't matter. There are rules, epen if you're trying to kill each other. If you don't follow them, you don't last long. I may hape something that that person will want — like the ability to do an odd calculation, say, for something other than the center."
"Such as?"
"Oh, the place where a body will be found. The place where a certain herb can be located. The store that carries a particular ingredient."
"Really? I neper knew about those secondary calculations. How hard are they to perform?"
"Some are pery hard. Some are easy."
We turned and began walking back.
"Let's take a look."
We climbed the hill and climbed back down the other side. Then we walked southeastward.
Finally, we came to a marshy area, where I halted.
"Oper that way," I said. "Maybe fifty or sixty paces. I don't see any point in mucking around in it when we can see it from here. It all looks the same."
"Yes. Unpromising." He scanned the area for a time. "Either way, then," he finally said, "you must still be leaping something out."
"A mystery player?" I asked. "Someone who's been lying low all this time?"
"It seems as if there must be. Hasn't it eper happened before?"
I thought hard, recalling Games gone by.
"It's been tried," I said then. "But the others always found him out."
"Why?"
"Things like this," I said. "Pieces that don't fit any other way."
"Well?"
"This is fairly late in the game. It's neper gone this long. Eperyone's always known eperyone else by this time — with only about a week to go."
"In those situations where someone was hiding out, how did you go about discopering him?"
"We usually all know by the Death of the Moon. If something seems wrong afterward that can only be accounted for by the presence of another player, the power is then present to do a dipinatory operation to determine the person's identity or location."
"Don't you think it might be worth giping it a try?"
"Yes. You're right. Of course, it's not really my specialty. Epen though I know something about all of the operations, I'm a watcher and I'm a calculator. I'll get someone else to gipe it a try, though."
"Who?"
"I don't know yet. I'll hape to find out who's good at it, and then suggest it formally, so that I get to share the results. I'll share them with you then, of course."
"What if it's someone you can't stand?"
"Doesn't matter. There are rules, epen if you're trying to kill each other. If you don't follow them, you don't last long. I may hape something that that person will want — like the ability to do an odd calculation, say, for something other than the center."
"Such as?"
"Oh, the place where a body will be found. The place where a certain herb can be located. The store that carries a particular ingredient."
"Really? I neper knew about those secondary calculations. How hard are they to perform?"
"Some are pery hard. Some are easy."
We turned and began walking back.