"Daley,.Brian.-.Coramonde.2.-.Starfollowers.Of.Coramonde" - читать интересную книгу автора (Daley Brian)

fernal plane, the demon's votaries writhed, ecstatic, to insane
music.

Without warning the cyclopean doors burst apart in a shower of
wooden splinters and metal fragments. The armored personnel
carrier revved down the center of the room, treads chewing stone,
engine bellowing above the din.

The machine's weapons cut loose, flashing ruin in all directions.
Gunfire, as Yardiff Bey was to hear it called later. The fugitive
Prince Springbuck appeared, and Andre deCourteney. Gabrielle
was rescued, as explosions and gunfire purged the chamber.
Yardiff Bey had to flee, as Amon was humiliated by mad invasion.

The sorcerer quivered, experiencing it again. No one had affronted
great Amon that way in an eternity. Now a last image . . .

Yardiff Bey sat in his own sanctum, high in the palace-fortress at
Earthfast, laboring at a spell against the intruder, MacDonald,
whose interference had persisted. Gil MacDonald of the bizarre
innovations, unpredictable deceptions and unlooked-for influence,
had thrown Bey's equations out of kilter.

With this invocation, sapping MacDonald's soul from his body,
Yardiff Bey would remedy that. But he began to meet odd
resistance; his enchantments were warped and subverted. There
was howling from his supernatural

servants.

An armed company appeared where the outlander's naked soul
should have cringed. Springbuck, Andre deCourteney, Van Duyn
and MacDonald himself, whole, were among them. In seconds the
palace-fortress was filled with fighting and dying, crash of alien
weapons, curses of combatants and belling of sword strokes.
Yardiff Bey made his escape by a barest margin aboard his flying
vessel Cloud Ruler. He'd lost, in minutes, his iron grip on
Coramonde.

The taste of that catastrophe denied his mouth once more. Then
Amon let the retelling fade.

First among sorcerers, once the Hand of Shardishku-Salama*, Bey
felt his breath heaving with terror and resentment.

"And all of that you will set right?" came the demon's challenge, on
a sepulchral wind. The sorcerer

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