The Luck of Brin's Five

by Wilder, Cherry;

  We had moved out into the stream, giving way to other vessels as we approached the harbor mouth. Rintoul rose above us, never more beautiful, in ladders and racks of white and silver. The crew were busy; Diver put me ahead of him on the narrow steps to the bridge, and we went up. When I looked again, I could hardly make out the wharf and the dark knot of figures. I looked at Mamor’s face and the face of the ancient sailing guide and the bearded face of Diver, and I felt secure, but not in the old way, as I had done in the warmth of the tent.

  I was among them, but I was myself, Dorn-U-Dorn, stepping off the edge of the world in brave company. The ship cleared the harbor mouth, and we felt at once the roll and surge under the Beldan’s keel as it was taken back by the Great Ocean Sea. A rim of light grew in the distant east, but our way was to the southwest. A stiff breeze filled the green sail, and we sailed on so fast we seemed to draw the light of the great sun across the sea, turning it to gold.

  Acknowledgments

  I would like to acknowledge the help given by Ken Ozanne, astronomer and Science Fiction Wizard of Faulconbridge, New South Wales. C.W.

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  Copyright © 1977 by Cherry Wilder

  Cover design by Frances Lassor

  ISBN: 978-1-5040-3818-8

  Published by Mashup Press

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