Which Darkover roman är detta?

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Jag minns knappast en scen i en Darkover-roman som jag läste i början av 1980-talet. En karaktär besöker Darkovan-ekvivalenten av en gypsy fortune teller kiosk med en kristall. Fortune Teller, en äldre kvinna, håller kristallen på huvudet och dör därmed i skräck. Jag tror att det kan vara The Bloody Sun, men jag läste en synopsis om det nyligen och ingen av det ringde en klocka.

    
uppsättning Paul Beardsley 23.12.2017 11:57

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Det här är faktiskt Bloody Sun av Marion Zimmer Bradley

Kerwin går för att få sin förmögenhet berättad.

The crystal on the table, his own crystal, glowed and shimmered; the crystal in the wicker frame, between the woman’s slender hands, began slowly to glow with blue fire.

Kvinnan skriker, kristallens sprickor och ...

Kerwin looked down at the woman, angry and puzzled. She had shown him something—but what did it mean? Why had he screamed? He felt cautiously at his throat. His voice felt frayed.
“What the hell was that all about? I suppose the dark man was my father. But who were the others?”
The woman neither stirred nor spoke, and Kerwin scowled. Drunk, drugged? Not gently, he reached to shake her shoulder. “What was that? What did it mean? Who were they?”
With nightmarish, slow grace, the woman slid down and toppled sideways to the floor. Swearing, Kerwin vaulted the table and knelt at her side, but he already knew what he would discover.
The woman was dead.

    
svaret ges 23.12.2017 12:29