2011年1月27日星期四

I made my way through the labyrinthine hallways and tunnels to the shipping platform

With her help, I made my way through the labyrinthine hallways and tunnels to the shipping platform, smuggled myself onto the cramped craft, reset the codes to conceal my extra mass-and lifted away to Erde-Tyrene.I was now much more than just a replica Movado 0605525 WoMen's watch rebellious Manipular. I had become a hijacker, a pirate . . . And was astonished at how easy it was! Too easy, perhaps.Still, I could not believe an ancilla would lead a Forerunner into a trap. That was contrary to their design, their programming-everything about their nature.

Ancillas serve their masters faithfully at all times.What I could not foretell was that I was not her master, and never had been.I stripped down reluctantly, unwinding the torso spiral, then the shoulder and arm guards, and finally the leg guards and boots. The thin pale fuzz on my arms and legs prickled in the breeze. My neck and ears suddenly itched. Then, swiss replica watches everything itched, and I had to force myself to ignore it.The armor assumed a loose mold of my body as it slumped to the deck. I wondered if the ancilla would now go dormant, or whether she would continue with her own inner processes. This was the first time I had been without her guidance in three years.

“Good,” Chakas said. “The crew will keep it safe for you.”I'm sure they will,” I said.Chakas and the little Florian-in their own language, specimens, respectively, of chamanune and hamanune- scrambled to the bow, where they joined the five crew members already there and argued in low whispers. Anything louder and the merse replica brand watches might attack whether or not the boat sang the proper song. Merse hated many things, but they especially hated excess noise. After storms, it was said they were upset for days, and passage over the inland sea became impossible.

imagining that in the vast caldera was hidden some great secret that would redeem me in the eyes of my family

And in that next year, my ancilla measured and judged me.One dry and dusty day, as I climbed the gentle slope of Edom's largest volcano, imagining that in the vast caldera was hidden some great secret that would redeem me in the eyes of my family and justify my existence-my common state of pointless fugue-she broke ancilla code in a replica Movado Valor 604774 WoMen's watch shocking manner.She confessed that she had once, a thousand years ago, been part of the retinue of the Librarian. Of course, I knew about the greatest Lifeworker of all. I wasn't com pletely ignorant. Lifeworkers-experts on living things and medicine-rank below both Builders and Miners, but just above Warriors.

And the highest rank of Lifeworker is Lifeshaper. The Librarian was one of just three Lifeworkers ever honored with that rank.The ancilla's memory of her time with the Librarian had supposedly been expunged when the Librarian's foundation traded her to my swap-family, as part of a general cultural exchange; but now, fully replica Movado 0605525 WoMen's watch reawakened to her past, it seemed she was prepared to conspire with me.She told me: “There is a world just a few hours' journey from Edom where you might find what you seek. Nine thousand years ago, the Librarian established a research station in this system.

It is still a topic of discussion among the Miners, who of course disapprove. Life is ever so much more slippery than rocks and gases.”This station was located on the system's third planet, known as Erde-Tyrene: a forsaken place, obscure, sequestered, and both the origin and final repository of the last of a degraded species called replica Movado 0605528 WoMen's watch human.My ancilla's motives, it seemed, were even more deviant than my own. Every few months, a craft lifted away from Edom to carry supplies downstar to Erde-Tyrene. She did not precisely inform me of what I would find there, but through hints and clues led me to decide it was major.

equipped my armor with one of his own ancillas to educate me to the ways of my new family

Call it exile. I called it escape. I knew my destiny lay elsewhere.When I arrived on Edom, my swap-father, following tradition, equipped my armor with one of his own ancillas to educate me to the ways of my new family. At first I thought this new ancilla would be the most obvious face of my indoctrination-just another shackle in my prison, replica Movado 0605251 WoMen's watch harsh and unsympathetic. But she soon proved something else entirely, unlike any ancilla I had ever experienced.During my long periods of tutoring and regimented exercise, she drew me out, traced my rough rebellion back to its roots-but also showed me my new world and new family in the clear light of unbiased reason.

“You are a Builder sent to live among Miners,” she told me. “Miners are rated below Builders, but they are sensible, proud and strong. Miners know the raw, inner ways of worlds. Respect them, and they will treat you well, teach you what they know, and return you to your family with all the discipline and skills a Manipular needs to replica Movado 691147 WoMen's watch advance.”After two years of generally impeccable service, guiding my reeducation while at the same time relieving my stultifying existence with a certain dry wit, she came to discern a pattern in my questions. Her response was unexpected.The first sign of my ancilla's strange favor was her opening of my swap-family's archives.

Ancillas are charged with the maintenance of all records and libraries, to ease access to any information a member of the family might need, however ancient and obscure. “Miners, you know, delve deep. Treasure, as you call it, is frequently in their way. They recover, record, settle the matter with the proper authorities . . . and replica Movado Museum 690299 WoMen's watch move on. They are not curious, but their records are sometimes very curious.”I spent happy hours studying the old records, and learned much more about Precursor remnants, as well as the archaeology of Forerunner history.Here it was that I picked up hints of lore discouraged or forgotten elsewhere-not always in actual evidence, but deduced from this and that odd fact.

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“This was anticipated,” she told me. “Electrical and magnetic fields, other than those generated by the planet's natural dynamics, drive these organisms into splashing fury. That is why the boat is powered by a primitive steam engine.”She assured me that the armor would be of no value to humans, and that at any rate she could guard against its replica Movado 0605458 WoMen's watch misuse. The rest of the crew watched with interest. I sensed this might be a sore point. The armor would power down, of course, once I removed it. For all our sakes, I would have to go naked, or nearly so.

I halfway managed to convince myself this could only enhance the adventure.The Florian set to work weaving me a pair of sandals from reeds used to plug leaks.Of all my father's children, I was the most incorrigible. In itself this was not an ill mark or even unusual. Manipulars of promise often show early rebellion-the stamp in raw metal from replica Movado 0604685 WoMen's watch which the discipline of a full rate is honed and shaped.But I exceeded even my father's ample patience; I refused to learn and advance along any of the proper Forerunner curves: intensive training, bestowal to my rate, mutation to my next form, and finally, espousal to a nascent triad . . .

where I would climb to the zenith of maturity.None of that attracted me. I was more far interested in adventure and the treasures of the past. Historic glory shined so much brighter in my eyes; the present seemed empty.And so at the end of my sixth year, frustrated beyond endurance by my stubbornness, my father traded me to replica Movado 0604687 WoMen's watch another family, in another part of the galaxy, far from the Orion complex where my peoples were born.For the last three years, the system of eight planets around a minor yellow star-and in particular, the fourth, a dry, reddish desert world called Edom-became my home.

2011年1月16日星期日

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