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.She tried to concentrate on her videodisplay."We were still together when the accident happened," Darton said."I don tunderstand why we can t be together now.""I m not listening, either," said Michelle."I m not leaving, Michelle!" Darton screamed."I m not leaving till you talkto me!"White cockatoos shrieked in answer.Michelle quietly picked up her deck, roseto her feet, and headed inland.The voice that followed her was amplified, andshe realized that Darton had brought his bullhorn."You can t get away, Michelle! You ve got to tell me what happened!"I ll tell you about Lisa Lee, she thought, so you can send her desperatemessages, too.Michelle had been deliriously happy for her first month in Belau, living inarboreal nests withDarton and spending the warm days describing their island s unique biology.Itwas their first vacation, in Prague, that had torn Michelle s happiness apart.It was there that they d met LisaLee Baxter, the American tourist who thought apes were cute, and who wonderedwhat these shaggy kids were doing so far from an arboreal habitat.It wasn t long before Michelle realized that Lisa Lee was at least two hundredyears old, and that behind her diamond-blue eyes was the withered, mummifiedsoul that had drifted into Prague from some waterless desert of the spirit, asoul that required for its continued existence the blood and vitality of theyoung.Despite her age and presumed experience, Lisa Lee s ploys seemed toMichelle to be so obvious, so blatant.Darton fell for them all.It was only because Lisa Lee had finally tired of him that Darton returned toBelau, chastened andfile:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Wa.ams%20-%20The%20Green%20Leopard%20Plague.txt (38 of 40) [10/16/2004 5:38:28 PM]file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/Walter%20Jon%20Williams%20-%20The%20Page 41 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlGreen%20Leopard%20Plague.txt solemn and desperate to be in love with Michelleagain.But by then it was Michelle who was tired.And who had access to Darton s medical records from the downloads in Delhi."You can t get away, Michelle!"Well, maybe not.Michelle paused with one hand on the banyan s trunk.Sheclosed her deck s display and stashed it in a mesh bag with some of her otherstuff, then walked out again on the overhanging limb."I m not going to talk to you like this," she said."And you can t get ontothe island from that side, the overhang s too acute.""Fine," Darton said.The shouting had made him hoarse."Come down here, then."She rocked forward and dived off the limb.The salt water world exploded inher senses.She extended her wings and fluttered close to Darton s kayak,rose, and shook sea water from her eyes."There s a tunnel," she said."It starts at about two meters and exits intothe lake.You can swim it easily if you hold your breath.""All right," he said."Where is it?""Give me your anchor."She took his anchor, floated to the bottom, and set it where it wouldn tdamage the live coral.She remembered the needle she d taken to Jellyfish Lake, the needle she dloaded with the mango extract to which Darton was violently allergic.Once inthe midst of the jellyfish swarm, it had been easy to jab the needle intoDarton s calf, then let it drop to the anoxic depths of the lake.He probably thought she d given him a playful pinch.Michelle had exulted in Darton s death, the pallor, the labored breathing, thedesperate pleading in the eyes.It wasn t murder, after all, just a fourth-degree felony.They d build a newDarton in a matter of days.What was the value of a human life, when it couldbe infinitely duplicated, and cheaply? As far as Michelle was concerned,Darton had amusement value only.The rebuilt Darton still loved her, and Michelle enjoyed that as well, enjoyedthe fact that she caused him anguish, that he would pay for ages for hisbetrayal of her love.Linda Lee Baxter could take a few lessons from the mermaid, Michelle thought.Michelle surfaced near the tunnel and raised a hand with the fingers set at.Darton rolled off the kayak, still in his clothes, and splashedclumsily toward her."Are you sure about this?" he asked."Oh yes," Michelle replied."You go first, I ll follow and pull you out if youget in trouble."He loved her, of course.That was why he panted a few times for breath, filledhis lungs, and dove.Michelle had not, of course, bothered to mention that the tunnel was fifteenmeters long, quite far to go on a single breath.She followed him, veryinterested in how this would turn out, and when Darton got into trouble in oneof the narrow places and tried to back out, she grabbed his shoes and held himright where he was
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