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."You are the Queen of the Pontius, the land of incense ladders, mybeloved consort.I never made Chephren.I have nothing to do withChephren."Shaman boiled."Chephren cameto me in a dream.He told me to dig you out, you ridiculous ingrate.Are you disowning Chephren?""It was your own epoché thatchanged things, Shaman," I said.Down below, Izzy was trumpetingit for everyone’s ears: "See, it says so right here, folks:‘Visitors to the Valley ofKings may be interested to note that, contrary to previously heldtheories, there is no relation between the Sphinx and Chephren.Frank Domingo, a senior forensic officer of the New York City PoliceDepartment, has concluded, after rigorous examination and analysis,that there is no actual similarity between the face of the GizaSphinx and the face on the statue of Chephren previously supposed tobe its model.’(Or vice versa.) There it is,boys and girls.Your Fearless Leader lied to you.""I warned you, Shaman," Norawas saying."You can’t control the epoché.You’re nothing now.TheSphinx never sired our race.We came up out of the mud all on ourown.The Sphinx is just hitching through.You’re just another human,like me."The Space People were peltingthe glass doors with rocks.With his mind, Shaman commanded them tostop?to no effect. 39.The Death of GypsyThe ice pick with which Shamanattacked me was no less lethal for being non-physical.He hacked atIzzy’s bung.Thoughts hissed from me like leaking steam, but thepatch held."You!" he screamed at me."You laid your own mother.Youwant to kill yourself, don’t you?""You forget I’m only halfhuman," I said."We Magellanics mummafug all the time, didn’t yousay so?"The glass cracked andcollapsed, littering jagged fragments behind Shaman.Space Peoplechinned up and climbed through.Izzy was there, on what would havebeen Johnny Abilene’s shoulders, were he wearing his Earther skin.The Space People grabbed Shaman’s arms; Johnny grabbed hismind.I stood by Nora, watching itall.I stood below, on the desert,behind Lila Kodzi and Sarvaduhka, bursting out of the sunglasses andsynthetic suit as the peripheralysis wore off and I was once more agigantic monolith from the stars.Johnny Abilene knelt besideGypsy, his brother Sandulean."Bodies aren’t important," Gypsygasped.Then he saw Izzy."Your Majesty!"The Space People were tyingShaman to the condiment stand.Izzy stroked Gypsy’s wan anteriorbulge."You been bad-mouthing me, Gypsy.I can tell.Izzovision.""Why didn’t you trust me, YourMajesty? You sent me here to do a job.Then you came yourself andnever let me know.""I didn’t think things would goso fast, Gyp.I had to epoché on down in a hurry when the SpacePeople killed Shaman.""Killed Shaman? Shaman’s notdead.""We got past and future mixedaround here, old Giblet.Anyways, I’ll confer with you before thewhole thing ever happened?retroactively?once I get aminute.""I hate your guts, Izzy," Gypsysaid, and he kissed him, the way Magellanics do, thwucking theirnodes against each other, then expired in Izzy’s arms.Johnny shook his dendrites."Well, my Lord, there goes the best dang Sandulean operative youever want to see."Izzy heaved a sigh."When weget back to the Mags, I’ll name a couple weeks afterhim.""I thought you didn’t want meto leave Earth.I thought you worked at Gibson’s in Lockport," Isaid."Yeah, that’s just part-time,"Izzy said."I’m also the Emperor of the Magellanic Clouds." 40.Beyond Oedipus"That still don’t let me out ofhaving to be back at Gibson’s 8:30 a.m.Monday morning though," Izzysaid, "unless I want to be docked for the time, which Idon’t.""Dualism!" cried Lila Kodzi.With Sarvaduhka, she had found a way up from the base of the reststop café rocket ship desert concession.Sarvaduhka had become toofrightened to remain in my shadow below."Dualism! You are not bothhere and there, liar! If you are an Emperor, you are not a lathesetup man as you claimed to me in our conjugal bed at the Cairo KhanSuites Hotel.Izzy Molson, I abjure all past relationship with suchas you.""That suits me okay," saidIzzy."I’m working on a little something in Tonawanda, anyways, nameof Fay.""Creep!" She abruptly turnedaway, grabbed Sarvaduhka’s jaw and kissed him passionately and long.He squealed.He stopped squealing.He kissed her back.I stared at Nora, and the worlddissolved [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
