《Lise 》作者：- D. M. Arnold【EPUB】

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LISE a novel by D M Arnold Edition of 25-April-2008 Copyright (C) 2005-2008 D M Arnold. All rights reserved. Redistribution in any form is strictly prohibited. Published by VIRTUAL imprint http://www.virtualimprint.com Table of Contents I1 II9 III17 IV..24 V..30 VI39 VII51 VIII59 IX..73 X..84 XI93 XII102 XIII111 XIV..123 XV..128 XVI134 XVII145 XVIII151 XIX..156 I The white Varadan sun washed the city with harsh morning light. A shaft streamed through a sill window and across Lise's eyes. She sat up with a start, dimly recalling her mother's attempt to rouse her earlier. She rubbed her eyes and arose from the thin pad on the floor that served as her mattress. She wrapped a threadbare towel around her torso, climbed the stairs from the basement and stepped into a courtyard, walled on four sides by abandoned and crumbling four-and five-story apartment buildings. Pushing open a gate, Lise walked onto the street. There was no vehicular traffic, as this sector of Vyonna had long been walled off from the rest of the city. Sitting in the middle of what once was a busy boulevard was a latrine, fabricated from scraps of corrugated metal and positioned atop a manhole opening into a sewer. She rapped on the door. “Occupied,” came a reply. She folded her arms and waited until the structure was vacant, then stepped inside and voided her bladder. She headed back to the courtyard, filled a bucket from a standpipe, stepped behind a low screen formed from a pair of old doors and began washing. As she dried herself she realized she was not alone in the courtyard. Sitting on a low wall was a figure --another Novo Homonid. He was about the same age as she --nineteen years