"David Eddings - The Elenium 3 - The Saphire Rose" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

'Yes, it is.'
'Let's enclose it then and protect it forever.'
Sparhawk pictured the ceiling of the cave collapsing with
a huge, grinding roar and a billowing cloud of rock dust.
'What do I say?' he asked.
"Call it "Blue-Rose". That's what Ghwerig called it. It
might recognize the name.'
"Blue-Rose,' Sparhawk said in a tone of command,
'make the cave fall in.'
The Sapphire Rose went very dark, and angry red
flashes appeared deep in its centre.
'it's fighting you,' Sephrenia said. "This is the part I
warned you about. The cave is the place where it was born,
and it doesn't want to destroy it. Force it, Sparhawk.'
'Do it, Blue-Rose!' Sparhawk barked, bending every
ounce of his will on the jewel in his hands. Then he felt
a surge of incredible power, and the sapphire seemed to
throb in his hands. He felt a sudden wild exaltation as he
' unloosed the might of the stone. It was far beyond mere
satisfaction. It verged almost on physical ecstasy.
There was a low, sullen rumbling from deep in the
ground, and the earth shuddered. Rocks deep beneath
them began to pop and crack as the earthquake shattered
layer upon layer of subterranean rock.-Far up the ravine,
the rock face looming over the mouth of Ghwerig's cave
began to topple outward, then dropped straight down into
the weedy basin as its base crumbled out from under it.
The sound of the collapsing cliff was very loud even at
this distance, and a vast cloud of dust boiled up from
the rubble and then drifted off to the northeast as the
prevailing wind that raked these mountains swept it away.
Then, even as it had in the cave, something flickered at
the edge of Sparhawk's vision - something dark and filled
with malevolent curiosity.
"How do you feel?' Sephrenia asked, her eyes intent.
'A little strange,' he admitted, 'very strong for some
reason.
"Keep your mind away from that. Concentrate on
Aphrael instead. Don't even think about Bhelliom until
that feeling wears off. Get it out of sight again. Don't
look at it. '
Sparhawk tucked the sapphire back inside his tunic.
Kurik looked up the ravine towards the huge pile of
rubble now filling the basin which had lain before the
mouth of Ghwerig's cave. 'That all seems so final,' he
said regretfully.
'it is,' Sephrenia told him. "The cavern's safe now. Let's
keep our minds on other things, gentlemen. Don't dwell on
what we've just done, or we might be tempted to undo it.'
Kurik squared his heavy shoulders and looked around.