"David Eddings - The Dreamers 02 - The Treasured One" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

тАШAnyway,тАЩ Ashad continued, тАШthere were outlanders there, and they were fighting
the nasty things just like they did in BalaceniaтАЩs Domain, but then things got very
confusing. A whole lot of other outlanders came up across Mother Sea from the
South, but it didnтАЩt seem like they were interested in the war very much, because they
spent all their time talking to the farmers about somebody called Amar. The ones who
were doing all the talking were wearing black robes, but there were some others who
wore red clothes, and they were pushing the farmers around and making them listen
while the ones in black talked. That went on for quite a while, and then the outlanders
in the South got all excited, and they started to run north toward a great big waterfall,
and the other outlanders - the ones who got there first - sort of got out of their way for
while, and then when everybody got to that waterfall, it looked to me like everybody
was trying to kill everybody else, and no matter how much I tried, I couldnтАЩt
understand exactly what was going on.тАЩ
 тАШIтАЩve heard that dreams are like that, Ashad. I donтАЩt need to sleep, so I donтАЩt really
know what dreams are all about.тАЩ I hesitated. тАШWhere did you find that shiny black
rock?тАЩ I asked, more to change the subject than out of any real curiosity.

тАШIt was in the back of the cave where Mama Broken-Tooth sleeps in the winter,тАЩ
Ashad replied. тАШShe had three cubs while she was sleeping this past winter, and while
you were busy helping your sister Zelana, I went to her cave to see them. TheyтАЩre sort
of the brothers of me and Long-Claw, arenтАЩt they? I mean, Mama Broken-Tooth
nursed me and Long-Claw when we were just cubs, and now sheтАЩs nursing the three
new ones. That sort of makes us relatives of some kind, doesnтАЩt it?тАЩ

тАШI suppose so, yes.тАЩ

тАШAnyway, the three new cubs were making those funny little sounds bear-cubs
always make when theyтАЩre nursing, and Mama Broken-Tooth was cuddling them like
she used to cuddle Long-Claw and me when we were just cubs.тАЩ He picked up the
shiny stone. тАШThis is an agate, isnтАЩt it?тАЩ he asked, holding it out to me.

I took the stone, but almost dropped it when I sensed the enormous power
emanating from it. тАШI think youтАЩre right, Ashad. Black agates are very rare, though.тАЩ

тАШItтАЩs pretty, and I really liked it when I first saw it. I asked Mama Broken-Tooth if
I could have it, and she told me to go ahead and take it. I used to carry it with me
wherever I went, but then I mislaid it, I guess, but when I woke up this morning, there
it was right in my bed with me. IsnтАЩt that odd?тАЩ

I laughed. тАШI think this might just be the year of тАЬoddтАЭ, Ashad,тАЩ I said. тАШIt seems
like every time I turn around there are piles and piles of тАЬoddтАЭ staring me in the face.
How did the rest of your bears come through this past winter?тАЩ

тАШJust fine, uncle,тАЩ Ashad replied. тАШThere are lots and lots of new cubs.тАЩ He
suddenly grinned broadly, shaking off his gloomy expression. тАШBaby bears are so
much fun. They do all sorts of funny things that make their mothers terribly grouchy.
Just last week Mama Broken-Tooth was scooping fish out of a stream - you know,
throwing them up on the riverbank the way bears always do - but her three cubs
thought she was playing, so they were swatting the fish back into the stream. When
she saw what they were doing, she came running out of the water, gave them a few