"Brooks, Terry - Shannara short story" - читать интересную книгу автора (Brooks Terry)

is what you are given to do. On your shoulders hangs the mantle of
responsibility for those with lesser insight, courage, and vision.
Druids are charged with no less, Walker. Be what you have been given
to be-

Walker shook his head in dismay. "I am not what you say - not smarter
or braver or more insightful. I have never been that. I am simply the
bearer of a blood trust bestowed on Brin Ohmsford long before I was
born, a trust I carry not because I want to, but because I must and
because by doing so I might one day see a time when there is no
further need for Druids!"

He leaned towards the dark shape, his voice building. "I am no better
than those I seek to help. I am a poor answer to their difficult
questions. What are you, then? Where is the vaunted Druid power that
should give me the insights and understandings I lack? Where is that
power, but buried in the pit from which you rise to taunt me! If I am
to be the way, then show me something of the path!"

Lightning crackled before him, streaking down into the Hadeshorn from
the heavens. It was followed by a thunderclap of such fury that he
could feel it reverberated in the air about him. He stepped back from
the brilliance and the sound, shielding his face. In the aftermath,
everything went completely black, and he was suddenly alone, stranded
in an inky void.

He could feel the shade of Allanon draw close to him then. He could
heard the hiss of his anger.

-You travel to secure a treasure, Dark Uncle. You journey to fulfill a
dream. What you accomplish will cost you and those with you. For some,
it will cost everything. Lives will be lost and dreams shattered. None
of those who return will be the same again. Ever-

A slow hissing began to build from somewhere within the invisible
black that shrouded them. It came from everywhere at once, slow and
steady and terrifying.

-Of the things you seek, you shall find them all. Of what you would
know, only some will be revealed. Of what you retrieve, nothing will
you take away. The future is fluid and ever changing, and so it will
be be here. Give yourself over to it. If you would accomplish what you
most desire, let go of what most weighs you down. Recognize when you
have exceeded your reach. Give heed to what is meant to be and do not
question or regret or try to subvert it-

From a collage of images that formed in his mind, Walker caught a
glimpse of what he was being told yet the particulars remained just
out of reach. He shook his head in confusion.