"Alan Dean Foster - Flinx 16 - Snakes Eyes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Foster Alan Dean)

Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 16 - Flinx - Snakes Eyes (SS) (v1.0)




Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 16 - Flinx - Snakes
Eyes (SS) (v1.0) Jacked

Snake Eyes
by Alan Dean Foster
"Snake Eyes" copyright 1978 by Random House: first appeared in Stellar 4.



The mysterious young man Philip Lynx, better known to his readers as Flinx, and his empathic
flying snake Pip have gallivanted through five novels written over a span of twelve years.
They've become good friends of mine. I feel I know Pip, for instance, as well as I know my own
six-foot-long Colombian boa constrictor, Samuel.

I wish I knew whether Samuel was a he or a she, though. It's tough to tell with a snake, and
after they get to be Sam's size it's tricky to press the point. Not that it really matters. Sam feels
like a he to me, and so far he hasn't bothered to argue about it. It's just a feeling I have, of course.
I'm often chided for believing that anything as lowly as a snake can project any kind of feeling.

But it's sure fun to imagine one could, and many's the time in those tales that Flinx has been glad
Pip could sense what he was feeling. Never more so than in the story that follows




Her name was Pip. She was a minidrag, or flying snake. She was barely two-thirds of a meter long, and
no bigger around than the wrist of a sensitive woman. Her venom could kill a man in sixty seconds. In a
hundred if she missed the eyes when she spat.

Until a few seconds ago it had been an unremarkable day. Then unexpected and overwhelming emotion-
thoughts had struck her like a wave bowling over an unprepared crustacean. Her own feelings tumbled up
and over, spun and submerged and overpowered by other thoughts. Pip was a sensitive empathic telepath,
and the emotional outburst she'd just received was not to be denied.

Through slitted pupils she could see the slim form of her young master, an adolescent named Flinx,


file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruis...n%20Foster%20-%20Flinx%2016%20-%20Snakes%20Eyes.htm (1 of 31)19-2-2006 17:10:40
 Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 16 - Flinx - Snakes Eyes (SS) (v1.0)

asleep on the park bench below her perch. He dreamed pleasant mind-mirages devoid of fear or worry
while fu-guelbell leaves tinkled overhead, crisp as the damp morning air. Pip shivered slightly. Moth,
Flinx's home world, was always cooler than the comfortable jungle and veldt of her own Alaspin.

Their surroundings, a park in Drallar, Moth's capital city, were familiar and empty of menace. Nor did