"David Eddings - The Dreamers 01 - The Elder gods" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

тАШSince you donтАЩt sleep, you wouldnтАЩt know about the strange things I
seem to see happening while тАШIтАЩm sleep, would you?тАЩ
тАШTheyтАЩre called тАЬdreamsтАЭ, Eleria,тАЩ Zelana told her, тАШand I donтАЩt think
any other creature has the same kind of dreams you do. My brother
Dahlaine told me that your dreams would be very special, and much more
important than the dreams of the ordinaries. Did you have a dream last
night that frightened you?тАЩ
тАШIt didnтАЩt particularly frighten me, Beloved. It just seemed very strange,
for some reason.тАЩ
тАШWhy donтАЩt you tell me about it?тАЩ Zelana suggested.
тАШWell, I seemed to be floating - except that I wasnтАЩt floating in Mother
Sea the way I do sometimes when I want to rest and catch my breath. I
was floating way up in the air instead, and all sorts of strange things were
happening far below. Father Earth seemed to be all on fire, and his
mountains were rising and falling the way Mother SeaтАЩs waves do. Rocks
were melting and running down the sides of some of Father EarthтАЩs
mountains into Mother Sea, and some of his other mountains were
spouting liquid fire way up into the sky. Could something like that really
happen?тАЩ
тАШYes, child,тАЩ Zelana said in a troubled voice, тАШand it happened in
exactly the way you just described it. I was there watching while it
happened. It was at the very beginning of the world. What happened
next?тАЩ
 тАШWell, the fires kept burning for a long, long time, and then the land
below me started to break apart, and the pieces floated off in different
directions. Then trees began to sprout on the face of Father Earth, and
Mother Sea started having children. It was about then that I seemed to
know that I wasnтАЩt alone. Others were having the same dream - only
maybe for them it wasnтАЩt really a dream.тАЩ
Zelana smiled. тАШNo, dear, it wasnтАЩt. I was one of those others, and I
certainly wasnтАЩt dreaming, and neither were my brothers or my sister.тАЩ
тАШThen it was your family that was sort of hiding around the edges of
my dream?тАЩ Eleria asked. тАШI thought you only had two brothers and one
sister. There seemed to be two more brothers and a sister watching with
me.тАЩ
тАШTheyтАЩre another branch of the family, Eleria,тАЩ Zelana told her. тАШWe
donтАЩt get together very often. We can talk about them some other time.
Why donтАЩt you tell me what happened next in your dream. Dreams fade, I
guess, and IтАЩd like to hear your whole dream before you forget.тАЩ
тАШWell, most of Mother SeaтАЩs children were fish, but some of them
werenтАЩt. Those were the ones who crawled up onto the face of Father
Earth. They looked like snakes at first, but then they sprouted legs and
they grew up to be very big. Some of them ate trees, but some of the
others ate the ones who were eating trees. Then a great big rock that was
on fire fell down out of the sky, and when it hit Father Earth it made an
awful splash, except that it was rock that splashed instead of water, and
everything got dark for a long time. It finally started to get light again,
but the snakes with legs werenтАЩt there any more.тАЩ
тАШDid my relatives go away, too?тАЩ
тАШSome of them went to sleep, but they woke up after a while, and the