"02 Myth Conceptions (e)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Asprin Robert)

you should tone down your disguise a bit next time."

"Do you think he's a demon-hunter?" I asked
nervously.

Instead of answering my question, Aahz turned
abruptly from the window.

"If he wants a magician, we'll give him a magi-
cian," he murmured. "Quick, kid, slap the Garkin
disguise on me."

As I noted earlier, Garkin was my first magik in-
structor. An imposing figure with a salt-and-pepper
beard, he was one of our favorite and most oft-used
disguises. I could do Garkin in my sleep.

"Good enough, kid," Aahz commented, survey-
ing the results of my work. "Now follow close and let
me do the talking."

"Like this?" I exclaimed.

"Relax, kid," he reassured me. "For this conver-
sation I'm you. Understand?"

Aahz was already heading out through the door
without waiting for my reply, leaving me little choice
other than to follow along behind him.

"Who seeks an audience with the great Skeeve?"
Aahz bellowed in a resonant bass voice.

The man shot another nervous glance at me, then
drew himself up in stiff formality.

"I come as an emissary from his most noble
Majesty, Rodrick the Fifth, King of Possiltum,
whoЧ"

"Where's Possiltum?" Aahz interrupted.

"I beg your pardon?" the man blinked.

"Possiltum," Aahz repeated. "Where is it?"

"Oh!" the man said with sudden understanding.
"It's the kingdom just east of here . . . other side of
the Ember River . .. you can't miss it."