Wanda Tamberly knows that her extratemporal interference might cost her her position in the Time Patrol. When she returns to her dome:
"Wind brawled. The dome shuddered." (p. 247)
Andersonian winds can sooth but not in these circumstances.
When she reflects that:
"...I did what I must, and be damned if I'm sorry.
"The wind blew harder. A few snowflakes flew on it, outriders of winter's last great blizzard." (p. 249)
Wanda is heading into a personal blizzard. The Patrol hearing will be rough, whatever its outcome.
Chapter XV opens with the wind brawling and ends as it blows harder.
However, over the page, in 13,210 B. C., the sun dazzles and flowers are in bud as the Cloud People approach:
"A new world." (p. 250)
Life has become better and the season corresponds.
1990 A. D. will be our last sight of Wanda and Everard before PART FOUR of The Shield Of Time ends.
And that has to be a good place to end for this evening. I have some Stieg Larsson to reread.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
IIRC, in "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Carl Farness faced a similarly tough investigation by the Patrol, due to his activities among the Goths.
Ad astra! Sean
Correct.
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