"Charles De Lint - Spiritwalk" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

"I don't really know. I guess when I stopped waking up terrified, I just stopped sleeping under the tree
so I didn't see him anymore. And then I just forgot that he'd ever been thereтАж"

Julie shook her head. "You know, you can be a bit of a flake sometimes."

"Thanks a lot. At least I didn't hang around with a giant hedgehog named Whatzit when I was a kid."

"No. You hung out with tree-boy."

Julie started to giggle and then they both broke up. It was a few moments before either of them could
catch their breath.

"So what made you think of your tree-boy?" Julie asked.

Another giggle welled up in Julie's throat, but Sara's gaze had drifted back out the window and become
all dreamy again.

"I don't know," she said. "I was just looking out at the garden and I suddenly found myself remembering.
I wonder what ever happened to himтАж ?"



"Jamie gave me some books about a man with the same name as you," she told the red-haired boy the
next time she saw him. "And after I read them, I went into the Library and found some more. He was
quite famous, you know."

"So I'm told," the boy said with a smile.

"But it's all so confusing," Sara went on. "There's all these different stories, supposedly about the same
manтАж How are you supposed to know which of them is true?"

"That's what happens when legend and myth meet," the boy said. "Everything gets tangled."

"Was there even areal Merlin, do you think? I mean, besides you."

"A great magician who was eventually trapped in a tree?"

Sara nodded.

"I don't think so," the boy said.

"Oh."

Sara didn't even try to hide her disappointment.

"But that's not to say there was never a man named Merlin," the boy added. "He might have been a
bard, or a follower of old wisdoms. His enchantments might have been more subtle than the great acts of
wizardry ascribed to him in the stories."

"And did he end up in a tree?" Sara asked eagerly. "That would make him like you. I've also read that he