"L. E. Modesitt - The Forever Hero 3 - The Endless Twilight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

Who could ever tell what he might require?

From what he recalled, Byzania, while not unfriendly, was a rather tightly controlled society. But,
first, the update to Lyr. Then he could worry about sleep and Byzania.

Once she got the update, she could be the one to take on the worries about the latest implications of
what he was doing, not that she wasn't already.

He cleared his throat and tapped the data screen controls.




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BUZZ!

At the sound, Lyr dropped in front of the console.

The screen showed the face of the man with the curly blond hair and hawk-yellow eyes.

"You never change," she observed safely, since Gerswin was really not on the screen, his image
only the beginning of a prerecorded torp fax for her.

She first tapped the controls to store the entire message and the mass of data that always
accompanied his transmissions, then tapped the acknowledgment stud to start the message.

"Lyr. Finished the Grom'tchacher lead. Your first impressions were right. Leased the lab, took the
cash, and left. Nice prospectus, though. Theory's interesting, if not down our line. Might be worth a
commission job for one of your friends to investigate."

Gerswin looked down, then back into the screen. In the shadows behind him, Lyr could make out
the accel/decel shell/couch that dominated the control room, and the manual auxiliary control banks that
Gerswin had insisted on retaining even after centralizing the direct controls in the simplified bank before him,
secondarily, in the AI center.

In scanning the background, she missed the next words, not that she could not have replayed them
anytime .

". . . off to Byzania next. Hylerion--the precoded accelerated tree grower--heard some interesting
reports. Never collected the last installment of the grant. Suspicious enough to make me think the idea
worked.

"Be back in Ydris to check their system after that. Send a report there."

He grinned at the screen.

"Since you're the cred worrier, some good news. In tracing down Grom'tchacher, ran across some
business. Managed to broker a lab lease and some other property along with ours. Finder's fee