"Anthony, Piers - Incarnations 04 - Wielding A Red Sword" - читать интересную книгу автора (Anthony Piers)

"Trying to imitate a berserker," another said,

unconcerned.
The blood in Mym's mouth continued to flow. His body

began to shake. The breath whistled out through drawn
lips.

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"Well, I'll berserk him!" the leader said, stepping for-
ward and raising his sword. "He's shaking in his boots!"
A thin line of reddish froth appeared at Mym's mouth.
"Hey, I don't knowЧ" another thuggee began,

worried.

Then Mym moved. The board dropped.

The leader saw no more than a blur, before his sword
was expertly .wrenched from his grasp. Then that sword
whirled demonically, slicing at the thuggee to the right.
A line appeared at his neck, below the left ear, and he
collapsed. The sword lifted and came down on the head
of the thuggee farthest to the left, splitting his face open
from forehead to nose.

The leader, disarmed, gaped. "He isЧ" he began.
Then the sword whistled across with such force that his
head lifted from his neck and tumbled to the ground before
the body fell.

The two remaining thuggees tried to turn and run, but
one was caught by a thrust to the bowel, and the other,
starting away, got the point of the sword through his skull
from the rear. The tip of the point showed through at the
front as he fell.

Mym glanced back at the crates, where Orb still hid.
He pondered a moment, then reached for his ring again.
Can she handle this?

The ring squeezed twice.

Best way to get her through? He ran through several
notions in his mind and stopped when the ring squeezed
once. He had his plan.

Mym drew out a silk handkerchief he normally used in
his mime act. He went to the woman. Orb's head was