The Outback Stars
“First he’d been in the slots, lost in the dark maze while something sinister and cold ruthlessly tracked him down. Then he’d been back on Baiame, running from his older brother’s wrath across an immense field of rotting crops. Black vines reached for his ankles and tried to drag him down to the dirt. “Come take your beating!” Daris yelled, his voice booming across the steel-gray sky. Legs numb, chest laboring, Myell fell to his knees. Just before Daris’s unseen fist rammed into the small of his... back (he couldn’t see it but he knew it was coming, with the odd prescience of dreams) a voice commanded, “Stop!” The same naked Aboriginal he’d seen on the tram appeared on a nearby hill. The circles and swirls on his body were silver in the odd light, and his spear pulsed with unnatural power. He was a shaman, Myell realized. A medicine man fallen out of Aboriginal history.
“Begone!” The shaman stabbed his spear at a point over Myell’s shoulder. The spear turned into a multicolored snake that arched through the air with a hiss like falling rain.MoreLess
“Begone!” The shaman stabbed his spear at a point over Myell’s shoulder. The spear turned into a multicolored snake that arched through the air with a hiss like falling rain.MoreLess
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