Science Fiction

Falcons of Narabedla

I turned to Andy, knee-deep in the icy stream beside me. "There's your eagle. Probably smells that cougar I shot yesterday." I started to reel in my line, knowing what my brother's next move would be. "Get the camera, and we'll try for a picture."

Chapters

1. CHAPTER ONE

I turned to Andy, knee-deep in the icy stream beside me. "There's your eagle. Probably smells that cougar I shot yesterday." I started to reel in my line, knowing what my brothe...

2. CHAPTER TWO

I was drifting. I was swaying, bodiless, over a huge abyss of caverned space; chasmed, immense, limitless. Vaguely, through a sleeping distance, I heard two voices. This one was...

3. CHAPTER THREE

Evarin nodded slowly, ignoring the question. "Rhys is a Dreamer, yes. He is old--so old he is almost mortal now; so he wakes, and he too walks. But he was one of us once--the on...

4. CHAPTER FOUR

Afterward, when I had found my way back to the Crimson Tower, I searched for hours for something that might give a clue to Adric's mystifying past. I was puzzled about this Adri...

5. CHAPTER FIVE

I had been scared before. Now I was panicked, wild with a nerve-destroying fright. I'm not a coward. I set up a radar transmitter in Okinawa within ninety feet of a nest of Japs...

6. CHAPTER SIX

But I wasn't. When I came to--it could only have been a few seconds that I was unconscious--it was to hear Evarin snarling curses and Idris barking incoherently with rage. I hea...

7. CHAPTER SEVEN

The fire in the other room had burned down to an ember. Without a glance my way, Narayan mended the fire; sat down, his legs stretched toward the little blaze, his shin in his h...

8. CHAPTER EIGHT

I pulled my cloak closer about me, prickling with excitement, as I knelt between Raif and Kerrel in the tree-platform. Just beneath me, Narayan clung to a lower branch. My ears...

9. CHAPTER NINE

Back in the windowless house, we snatched a hurried meal, cared for our slashed cuts, and tried to plan further. The others had not been idle while we fought the falcons. All da...

10. CHAPTER TEN

Of course I understood, even while I fought, dizzy and reeling, to loose the deathgrip I had put on my own body. I was--back, I was Mike Kenscott again--Adric loosed his hands o...

11. CHAPTER ELEVEN

The flow of strength had renewed me; I felt that I could face whatever came. I thrust Evarin's mirror into my pocket; flung a word to Narayan and we were riding again, Gamine ra...