"Books - David Eddings - Belgarath the Sorcerer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

And now we were confounded. The broad sea stood between us and the
Angaraks, and Torak stood on one shore and we upon the other.

"What do we do, Master?" I demanded of Aldur.

"We can do nothing," he replied.

"It is finished. The war is over."

"Never!" Belar cried.

"My people are Alorns. I shall teach them the ways of the sea. If we
cannot come upon the traitor Torak by land, my Alorns shall build a
great fleet, and we shall come upon him by sea. The war is not done,
my brother. Torak hath smote thee, and he hath stolen away that which
was thine, and now he hath drowned this fair land in the death-cold
sea. Our homes and our fields and forests are no more. This I tell
thee, my beloved brother, and my words are true. Between Alorn and
Angarak there shall be endless war until the traitor Torak be punished
for his iniquities--yea, even if it prevail so until the end of days!"
Oh, Belar could be eloquent when he set his mind to it. He loved his
beer tankard and his adoring Alorn girls, but he'd set all that aside
for the chance to make a speech.

"Torak is punished, Belar," my Master said to his enthusiastic younger
brother.

"He burns even now--and will burn forever. He hath raised the Orb
against the earth, and the Orb hath requited him for that.

Moreover, now is the Orb awakened. It came to us in peace and love.

Now it hath been raised in hate and war. Torak hath betrayed it and
turned its gentle soul to stone. Now its heart shall be as ice and
iron-hard, and it will not be used so again. Torak hath the Orb, but
small pleasure shall he find in the having. He may no longer touch it,
neither may he look upon it, lest it slay him."

My Master, you'll note, was at least as eloquent as Belar.

"Nonetheless," Belar replied,

"I will make war upon him until the Orb be returned to thee. To this I
pledge all of Aloria."

"As thou wouldst have it, my brother," Aldur said.

"Now, however, we must raise some barrier against this encroaching sea,
lest it swallow up all the dry land that is left to us. Join,
therefore, thy will with mine, and let us put limits upon this new