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

absently, her face still troubled.
'We do?' Sparhawk was startled.
'You're wearing one of them,' she told him, 'and
Aldreas gave you the other this very night.'
Sparhawk stared at the ruby ring on his left hand, then
back at his teacher. 'How's that possible?' he demanded.
'How did my ancestor and King Antor come by these
particular rings?'
"I gave them to them,' she replied.
He blinked. 'Sephrenia, that was three hundred years
ago.'
'Yes,' she agreed, 'approximately.'
Sparhawk stared at her, then swallowed hard. 'Three
hundred years?' he demanded incredulously. 'Sephrenia,
just how old are you?'
"You know I'm not going to answer that question,
Sparhawk. I've told you that before.'
'How did you get the rings?'
'My Goddess, Aphrael, gave them to me - along with
certain instructions. She told me where I'd find your
ancestor and King Antor, and she told me to deliver the
rings to them.'
'Little mother,' Sparhawk began, and then broke off as
he saw her bleak expression.
'Hush, dear one,' she commanded. "I will say this only
once, Sir Knights,' she told them all. what we do puts us
in conflict with the Elder Gods, and that is not lightly
undertaken. Your Elene God forgives, the Younger Gods
of Styricum can be persuaded to relent. The Elder Gods,
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however, demand absolute compliance with their
whims. To counter the commands of an Elder God is to
court worse than death. They obliterate those who defy
them - in ways you cannot imagine. Do we really want to
bring Bhelliom back into the light again?'
'Sephrenia We have to!' SParhawk exclaimed. "It's the
only way we can save Ehlana - and you and Vanion for
that matter.'
'Annias will not live forever, Sparhawk, and Lycheas is
hardly more than an inconvenience. Vanion and I are
temporary, and so, for that matter - regardless of how
you feel personally - is Ehlana. The world won't miss any
of us all that much.' Sephrenia's tone was almost clinical.
'Bhelliom, however, is another matter - and so is Azash.
If we fall and put the stone into that foul God's hands, we
will doom the world forever. Is it worth the risk?'
'I'm the queen's champion,' Sparhawk reminded her.
"I have to do whatever I possibly can to save her life.' He
rose and strode across the room to her. 'So help me God,