The Wind People
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Zimmer Bradley is the creator of the popular Darkover universe, as well as the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling ‘The Mists of Avalon’ and its sequel, ‘The Forest House’. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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The Wind People - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Wind People
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Start Publishing LLC
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First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015
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ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-965-3
It had been a long layover for the Starholm’s crew, hunting heavy elements for fuel—eight months, on an idyllic green paradise of a planet; a soft, windy, whispering world, inhabited only by trees and winds. But in the end it presented its own unique problem. Specifically, it presented Captain Merrihew with the problem of Robin, male, father unknown, who had been born the day before, and a month prematurely, to Dr. Helen Murray.
Merrihew found her lying abed in the laboratory shelter, pale and calm, with the child beside her.
The little shelter, constructed roughly of green planks, looked out on the clearing which the Starholm had used as a base of operations during the layover; a beautiful place at the bottom of a wide valley, in the curve of a broad, deep-flowing river. The crew, tired of being shipbound, had built half a dozen such huts and shacks in these eight months.
Merrihew glared down at Helen. He snorted, This is a fine situation. You, of all the people in the whole damned crew—the ship’s doctor! It’s—it’s—
Inarticulate with rage, he fell back on a ridiculously inadequate phrase. It’s—criminal carelessness!
I know.
Helen Murray, too young and far too lovely for a ship’s officer on a ten-year cruise, still looked weak and white, and her voice was a gentle shadow of its crisp self.
I’m afraid four years in space made me careless.
Merrihew, brooded,