"Elenium 02 - The Ruby Knight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

wore his usual black leather vest, and his heavily
muscled arms and shoulders gleamed in the orange
torchlight that illuminated the courtyard. He spoke in the
hushed voice men use when talking at night.
"I had to go to the cathedral,' Sparhawk replied quietly.
'Are you having religious experiences?' Kalten asked,
sounding amused. The big blond knight, Sparhawk's
boyhood friend, was dressed in chain and had a heavy
broadsword belted at his waist.
'Not exactly,' Sparhawk told him. 'Tanis is dead. His
ghost came to me at about midnight.'
'Tanis?' Kalten's voice was shocked.
'He was one of the twelve knights who were with
Sephrenia when she encased Ehlana in crystal. His ghost
told me to go to the crypt under the cathedral before it
went to give up its sword to Sephrenia.'
'And you went? at night?'
'The matter was of a certain urgency.'
'What did you do there? Violate a few tombs? Is that
how you got the spear?'
'Hardly,' Sparhawk replied. 'King Aldreas gave it to
me.'
'AldreeS.?'
'His ghost anyway. His missing ring is hidden in the
socket.' Sparhawk looked curiously at his two friends.
'Where were you going just now?'
'Out to look for you.' Kurik shrugged.
'How did you know I'd left the chapterhouse?'
"I checked in on you a few times,' Kurik said. "I thought
you knew I usually did that.'
'Every night?'
'Three times at least,' Kurik confirmed. 'I've been
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doing that every night since you were a boy - except for
the years you were in Rendor. The first time tonight, you
were talking in your sleep. The second time - just after
midnight - you were gone. I looked around, and when I
couldn't find you, I woke up Kalten.'
"I think we'd better go wake the others, ' Sparhawk said
bleakly. 'Aldreas told me some things, and we've got
some deCisions to make.'
'Bad news?' Kalten asked.
'it's hard to say. Berit, tell those novices in the stable to
go and replace you on the parapet. This might take a
while.'
They gathered in Preceptor Vanion's brown-carpeted
study in the south tower. Sparhawk, Berit, Kalten and'
Kurik were there, of course. Sir Bevier, a Cyrinic Knight,
was there as well, as were Sir Tynian, an Alcione Knight,