"Doranna Durgin - Seer's Blood" - читать интересную книгу автора (Durgin Doranna)

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ISBN: 0-671-57877-4


Cover art by Larry Elmore


First printing, July 2000




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For Darlene, Albin, Gloria and John, who taught me much and gave me much
For Strider, who gave me everything
and of course to Boomer, Esther, Goofy & FredтАФfor the ten o'clock howl!



HOWDY, STRANGERS
Steeling herself, Blaine crept in above the strangers' camp. Those few who were up were crouching over
faded fires, stirring them into new flame. Hunkered in above the slight scoop in the terrain that held the
camp, Blaine became very still as she focused on the flurry of movement just below her. She wasn't
expecting what she found; it took a moment to realize that the lump on the ground between four of the
strangers was a man, that the funny noise was his choked cry of pain.
That the man was Dacey.

She gasped; she couldn't help it. Tied at the wrists and ankles and perched haphazardly against a
rotted-out sycamore, Dacey answered their murmured questions with a single shake of his head, sending
his untrimmed bangs into his eyes. Blaine winced as one of the men backhanded him. The trickle of blood
dripping down his chin followed a path already forged, and his face held a storybook of bruises.

The strangers weren't just passing through. . . .