The Prophecy Machine (Neal Barrett Jr.) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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She had never felt so wonderful And warm, so full of energy and life. She knew, as she had never known before, that this was what life was really like, that she'd only thought she was truly alive before …

Then, she'd been only one, only a single lost and lonely soul, a creature looking at the world through a single, lonely pair of eyes. Now, she was everywhere there was, everywhere at once, everywhere she'd ever be …

She laughed, laughter she couldn't hear. She could almost remember now, remember the long, long before; before she'd worn the form she wore now. She could almost see herself then, see beyond the blur, beyond the veil before her eyes. And something within her said, No, don't look before, don't look back, you don't want to see that now …