The Mercenaries
“Beneath a little clump of trees on the fringe several carts were parked near the Avro, and Ira could see a group of people standing alongside a small farm building with a curved roof from which patches of tiling were missing.Fagan dropped like a stone as soon as the field came into view, but Ellie carefully maintained her position, giving Ira a thumbs-up sign occasionally and smiling under her goggles, then she too banked away and sank below him towards the ground, and he saw her machine moving... over the huts amid the bamboo clumps of the swampy delta where thousands of white birds circled, the star-shaped shadow racing across the ground until she turned over the north end of the field to land.Close by. where the water of the paddies reflected the sky and the threading irrigation canals stood out like veins, Tsosiehn hugged a curving loop of the river, surrounded by a brown mat of junks. It contained the usual group of dominant buildings round the centre of the town, the usual feathery willows, and alongside the water, near the huddle of coolie huts that crouched lopsidedly against the walls of the city, the Chang-an-Chieh Pagoda, a huge building with a multitude of curving roofs, rising like a tower to throw its shadow across the water.The engine throttled back, the guy wires humming, Ira banked over a village where old men and ducks pottered by a pond fringed with drooping willows.MoreLess
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