"Debra Doyle & James D. MacDonald - School of Wizardry" - читать интересную книгу автора (Doyle Debra)

hot rock before the campfire, he kept thinking about the
burned-over countryside through which they had passed. The
barony of Doun had been at peace with its neighbors, but the
possibility of war had been Lord Alyen's chief concern for as
long as Randal could remember.

The memory of his uncle stirred another of Randal's
worries. He sat brooding for a while, with his arms wrapped
around his knees, and then said, "I hope nothing's gone wrong
back at Doun. If they're looking for me at all, we should have
heard some word of it by now."

Madoc looked at the little fire. "You might as well know,
ladтАФthe night before I left, I went to your uncle and told him
of your future. They know where you'll be."

Randal lifted his head. "You never read my future."

"I didn't say that. I said some things were clear enough
without it. And your future is one of those things."

"Will you tell me?"

"No. Knowing the future isn't a good thing sometimes, and
this is one of those times."

Madoc gathered up sticks, laid them in the cottage's ruined
fireplace, and spoke a word. The sticks started to blaze,
radiating warmth against the growing chill of the night. Then
the master wizard called up a ball of light, illuminating the
interior of the cottage. "Now, to your lessons."

But tonight Randal was too distracted to study. After some
unpromising starts, Madoc looked up from the page of the
book he had been showing to RandalтАФthe same small volume he
had been reading in the tower back at Doun. "What you saw
today is bothering you, isn't it?"

"No," said Randal. And then, "Yes." And then, as his mind
leapfrogged restlessly from subject to subject, he said, "That
last night at Doun, I had a dream." Haltingly, he recounted the
events as he had dreamed them, and finished, "I've never had
another dream as real as that. . . . Does it mean something?"

"Everything means something," answered Madoc. "The trick
lies in knowing what that meaning may be. BesidesтАФmany things
mean more than one thing at once, especially in dreams."

"So what about my dream?" 'The horsemen," said Madoc,
"are obvious. If they catch you, you will be locked into the life