High Wizardry New Millennium Edition
“Earth’s gravity well was no joke: pushing her own mass and enough air to breathe for a while up out of that heavy pull was a problem. She walked over to a boulder, dusted it off, and sat down, panting, to admire the view while she waited for Kit.
The “usual place” where they met was, of course, the Moon. Nita liked it there; working, and thinking, were always easy in the great silence that no voices but astronauts’ and wizards’ had broken since the Moon’s dust was made. This particular spot, high in the mountain chain called the lunar Carpathians, was a favorite of Kit’s—a relatively flat-topped peak in a wild, dangerous country of jagged gray-white alps, cratered and pocked by millennia of meteoric bombardment. Piles of rocktumble lay here and there, choking the steep valleys where the sheer heat and cold of the lunar days had been enough to flake solid rock away from itself in great glassy or pumicey chunks. Off to one side, the pallid rim of some small unnamed crater scraped ra...zor-sharp against the sky, and above it hung the Earth.MoreLess
The “usual place” where they met was, of course, the Moon. Nita liked it there; working, and thinking, were always easy in the great silence that no voices but astronauts’ and wizards’ had broken since the Moon’s dust was made. This particular spot, high in the mountain chain called the lunar Carpathians, was a favorite of Kit’s—a relatively flat-topped peak in a wild, dangerous country of jagged gray-white alps, cratered and pocked by millennia of meteoric bombardment. Piles of rocktumble lay here and there, choking the steep valleys where the sheer heat and cold of the lunar days had been enough to flake solid rock away from itself in great glassy or pumicey chunks. Off to one side, the pallid rim of some small unnamed crater scraped ra...zor-sharp against the sky, and above it hung the Earth.MoreLess
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