The Book Of Air: Volume Four Of The Dragon Quartet - Plot & Excerpts
The Librarian piles rye bread and cheese, cold chicken and tomatoes and lettuce beside his keypad, and uses an obsolete mouse pad as a cutting board. Rye bread with caraway. And mustard. What a luxury! He lets himself concentrate entirely on the elaborate architecture of the sandwich, offering his brain a brief rest. But only the conscious part accepts the holiday. While he’s slicing his precarious tower neatly in half, then in quarters, his mental subroutines are clipping away a meter per millisecond. Per nanosecond, he amends, filling his mouth with sensual distraction. Nanotech. He still can’t quite believe it. A whole city of it. Mind-boggling. But he figures it could work. For instance: he’s connected to the dragon in the way of dragon guides, even if the lines of communication are interrupted, and function randomly at best. So, sporadically, his memories are open to her. Assuming she has control of the city’s infinite population of submicroscopic mechanisms—a big assumption, but it makes sense—and she’s instructing them to re-create selected portions of his past in dimensional replicas.
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