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

I catch him on his own quotes. Instead he squinted
over my shoulder at the scene outside.

"Kid," he said. "Tell me you're practicing. Tell
me you haven't really scrounged up another stupid
dragon to make our lives miserable."

"I'm practicing!" I hastened to reassure him.

To prove the point, I quickly restored Buttercup's
normal appearance.

"Gleep!" said Gleep happily, and the two of them
were off again.

"Really, Aahz," I said innocently to head off his
next caustic remark. "Where would I find another
dragon in this dimension?"

"If there was one to be found here on Klah, you'd




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find it," he snarled. "As I recall, you didn't have
that much trouble finding this one the first time I
turned my back on you. Apprentices!"
He turned and retreated out of the sunlight into the

dim interior of the inn.

"If I recall," I commented, following him, "that

was at the Bazaar on Deva. I couldn't get another
dragon there because you won't teach me how to

travel through the dimensions."

"Get off my case, kid!" he moaned. "We've been
over it a thousand times. Dimension traveling is
dangerous. Look at me! Stranded without my powers
in a back-assward dimension like Klah, where the
lifestyle is barbaric and the food is disgusting."

"You lost your powers because Garkin laced his
special effects cauldron with that joke powder and
then got killed before he could give you the an-
tidote," I pointed out.