"Gordon R. Dickson - Dragon Knight 09 - The Dragon and the F" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

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he and Angie had spent in this historic period of a world almost exactly like the
one in which they had grown up.

Will Angie and I ever really belong here?

And even as he faced that question once again, Carolinus, his Master-in-Magick,
appeared beside him.

"Good! You're up!" he said. His red robe, like all his robes, was worn thin, and
would stay that way until, in a less absent-minded moment, he would recollect
the fact and make it clean and new again. "Jim, I've only a short time to tell you
something important."

"Shh!" said Jim. "Angie's asleep!"

"She will not wake while we talk," said Carolinus, "and, Jim, try practicing at
least a little proper respect to senior Magickians. You may need it soon. You
may now be in the last stage of apprenticeship, but you're not yet a fellow
member to a MagickianтАФlet alone one like me. Must I remind you I'm not only
the most senior of Magickians, but one of the only three AAA+ Magickians in
the world?"

"Of course not," said Jim. "I never forget. But I thought we could drop formality
in private."

"Sometimes. Sometimes not! This is not one of those times. I come to you at this
hour in person, that no other Magickian might chance to overhear, and, by the
way, with a ward around us now through which nothing could be heard, to
privately give you information it is against the laws of the Collegiate of

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Magickians for a member to shareтАФtwo laws in particular I, myself, helped
write. It was I who woke you just now, I who then gave you some moments in
which to become fully awake, so that you would fully grasp the importance of
what I have to say."

"Sorry," said Jim. "But look, Carolinus, I was deep asleep just ten minutes ago,
and about to go back to it. Wouldn't you rather tell me in the morningтАФ"

"Jim, listen to me! You must tell no oneтАФnot even Angie. There are things no
apprentice should ever be told beforehand. One is that his Master-in-Magick has
proposed him for full membershipтАФuntil the Collegiate has agreed to consider