"Dragonlance - War of the Souls - 2 - Dragons of a Lost Star" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dragonlance)

Targonne had given no such orders, but he had
already observed Dogah's march from the Knight's mental
processes and let this comment pass unremarked. He
would deal with that later.

"General Dogah arrived to find the shield prohibited
him from entering. He was furious, thinking he'd been
sent on a kender's errand. The land around the shield is a
terrible place, my lord, filled with dead trees and animal
corpses. The air is fetid and foul to breathe. The men were
upset, claiming the place was haunted and that we our-
selves would die from being so near it, when, suddenly,
with the rising of the sun, the shield shattered. I was with
General Dogah, and I saw it with my own eyes."

"Describe it," Targonne ordered, eyeing the man intently.

"I have been thinking about how to do so, my lord.
Once when I was a child, I stepped on an ice-covered

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pond. The ice beneath my feet began to crack. The cracks
spread across the ice with a snapping sound, then the ice
gave way, and I plunged into the black water. This was
much the same. I saw the shield shimmering like ice in
the sunshine, and then it seemed to me that I saw a mil-
lion, million infinitesimal cracks, as thin as the strands of
a cobweb, spread across the shield with lightning speed.
There was a shivering, tinkling sound as of a thousand
glass goblets crashing onto a stone floor, and the shield
was gone.

"We could not believe our senses. At first. General
Dogah dared not enter the shield, fearing a cunning
elven trap. Perhaps, he said, we shall march across and
the shield will crash down behind us, and we will end
up facing an army of ten thousand elves, yet have
nowhere to go. Suddenly there appeared among us, as if
by magic, one of Mina's Knights. Through the power of
the One God, he came to tell us that the shield had
indeed fallen, brought down by the elven king himself,
Silvanoshei, son of AlhanaЧ"

"Yes, yes," said Targonne impatiently. "I know the
whelp's pedigree. Dogah believed this chit, and he and
his troops crossed the border."

"Yes, my lord. General Dogah ordered me to take my
blue dragon and fly back to report to you that he is now