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Название книги: My Brother
Автор(ы): Charles Sheffield
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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PROLOGUE
I was sitting on a bench in St. James Park when Leo started work on me again. This time he was a lot more insistent.He began with my left hand. My arm was stretched out loosely along the bench top. As I watched the fingers lifted and started to tap out a regular rhythm against the wood. I had been quite relaxed, enjoying the sunshine and watching ducks in the lake and young couples on the bank as they went through their elaborate courting rituals. So it took me a few seconds to realize that the finger-tapping was not my idea. Leo. It had to be Leo.Da-da-DA-da-da-da-DA-da-DA-DA-DA.Da-da-DA-da-da-da-DA-da-DI-DI-DI.Over and over. My head was aching again, like a resonance to the tapped signal. The rhythm was inside me, and a harmony built to go with it.Tom, Tom, the piper’s son.Da-da-DA-da-da-da-DA-da-DA-DA-DA.Why in God’s name would Leo be hitting me with that, an old children’s song? He wouldn’t. I had to be imagining it, mistaking a random thought of my own for Leo.I sat quite still for another tw