（外文电子版资料）Acorna 07 - Acornas Triumph.docVIP

? ACORNAS TRIUMPH Book 7 in Acorna Series By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough ? Acornas Triumph ANNE McCAFFREY and ELIZABETH ANN SCARBOROUGH ? An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher. ? ACORNAs TRIUMPH. Copyright ? 2004 by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. FIRST EDITION HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, ISBN 0-380-97900-4 ? Printed in the United States of America. ? OTHER ACORNA NOVELS ? Acornas Rebels Acornas Search Acornas World Acornas People Acornas Quest Acorna ? In fond memory of Connie Johnson: math teacher, bibliophile, adventuress, and friend Acknowledgments Our thanks go to Rick Reaser, science and salvage consultant and Ambassador to the Sulfur Beings, for his continuing advice and support. Also we wish to thank our editors Denise Little at Tekno Books and Diana Gill at HarperCollins for their suggestions and help, with special thanks to Denise for being the Keeper of Acornas Database of names and Linyaari words. Thanks are also due to Margaret Ball, cowriter with Anne McCaffrey on the first two Acorna books, for inventing the Linyaari language, among other things. And we would most particularly like to thank Martin H. Greenberg, without whose trust and support this project would have been impossible to continue. ? Chapter One Acorna moaned. She struggled desperately to regain control of herself. As always, she was powerless. She could only watch as the room changed and the time portraits swirled around her like dervishes. The white lights symbolizing Linyaari blurred, blinked out, returned. Vhiliinyars panoramas changed from lush to blighted, then became fertile again in a dizzying kaleidos