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

Talen looked shocked at that. 'And they call me a thief.
He Silled you, Sparhawk.'
"I needed to get out of the city.' Sparhawk shrugged.
'I'll tell Platime about it,' the boy said. 'He'll get your
money back. A half-crown? That's outrageous.' The boy
was actually spluttering.
Sparhawk remembered something. 'Sephrenia, when
I was on my way back here, something was out in the fog
watching me. I don't think it was human.'
'The Damork?'
"I couldn't say for sure, but it didn't feel the same. The
Damork's not the only creature subject to Azash, is it?'
'No. The Damork is the most powerful, but it's stupid.
The other creatures don't have its power, but they're
more clever. In many ways, they can be even more
dangerous.'
'All right, Sephrenia,' Vanion said then, "I think you'd
better give me Tanis's sword now.'
'My dear one -' she began to protest, her face
anguished.
'We've had this argument once already tonight,' he
told her. 'Let's not go through it again.'
She sighed. Then the two of them began to chant in
unison in the Styric tongue. Vanion's face turned a little
greyer at the end when Sephrenia handed him the sword
and their hands touched.
'All right,' Sparhawk said to Ulath after the transfer
had been completed. 'Where do we start? Where was
King Sarak when his crown was lost?'
'No one really knows,' the big Genidian Knight
replied. 'He left Emsat when Otha invaded Lamorkand.
He took a few retainers and left orders for the rest of his
army to follow him to the battlefield at Lake Randera.'
'Did anyone report having seen him there?' Kalten
asked.
"not that I've ever heard. The Thalesian army was
seriously decimated, though. It's possible that Sarak did
get their before the battle started, but that none of the
feW survivors ever saw him
"I expect that's the place to start then,' Sparhawk said.
'Sparhawk,' Ulath objected, 'that battlefield is immense.
All the Knights of the Church could spend the
rest of their lives digging there and still not find the
crown.'
There's an alternative,' Tynian said, scratching his
chin.
'And what is that, friend Tynian?' Bevier asked him
"I have some skill at necromancy,' Tynian told him. '"I
don't like it much, but I know how it's done. If we can
find out where the Thalesians are buried, I can ask them