"Duncan, Dave - Paragon Lost v1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duncan Dave)

V1- ripped from official book -kud

The three УTales of the KingТs BladesФ formed a set, although
possibly not a true series because they were not sequential. The
present book is independent of them and complete in itself. It
recounts some curious events that occurred about a dozen years
later, during the reign of King Athelgar.

Thousands of swords hang overhead in the great hall, each one a
memorial to the Blade who bore it. For his own hand and style it
was crafted, into his heart it was plunged in the ritual that bound
him, and its touch on his shoulder ultimately released him when the
King dubbed him knight. After his death it was brought back to
Ironhall, to hang forever with its sisters in the place where it was
made. Swords of all types and styles hang there, as fashions have
changed through the centuries, but each hilt bears a shining yellow
gem as its pommelЧwith one exception. On one sword alone the
catТs-eye stone has been replaced with a plain white pebble.



I

At GossipsТ Corner

Х 1 Х

УIsabelle!Ф Mistress Snider screeched. УAre you deaf?Ф

Isabelle was not deaf, but she would have had good cause to be,
working in this kitchen. On one side of her Nel was chopping up
salt pork with a hatchet, on the other Ed pounded dried fish with a
malletЧit took hours of pounding and soaking to make it even
close to edible. At her back, Lackwit was powdering salt just as
loudly. Lids danced and clattered on boiling pots, the pump handle
squeaked, drudges were rattling sea coal into the great brick ovens
and raking out ashes. The door, left open to admit cool air and
flies, led to the stable yard where the farrier was shoeing a horse.
Deaf? Not at all.

УAnd whatТre you doing with all that cinnamon?Ф The old harpy
waxed louder and shriller. Mistress Snider was tall and stooped,
tapering from grotesquely wide hips up to a small, mean face
shriveled around a beak nose.

УI am making a dipping sauce as you told me to!Ф Isabelle

2 Dave Duncan

shouted back. УCameline sauce, with ginger and raisins and nuts,