"Carol Emshwiller - Water Master" - читать интересную книгу автора (Emshwiller Carol)

I'm glad you came."

"I know that man. He's cruel. He doesn't care about anybody."

"He'll be different once he knows water. Once the water knows him. Water changes you. And living here
alone will change him. Seeing gold, like it is now, and the silver lake. That'll change him, too."

"But you never looked up. I was sorry for you, never looking up."

"I did. I looked out at it every morning and every night. And down there in the village, I looked. I saw
you."

He takes the empty cup and saucer and wraps his clothes around them. "It's my grandmother's cup. The
only thing she had of any value." Then he unwraps it and hands it to me again. "Would you like to have
it?"

"Where are you going?"

"Some place where they never heard of a Water Master nor ever needed one. Where there's no hanging
mountain lakes and no dams. Will you come? I noticed you beforeтАФhow you never needed water."

He's looking straight at me again. Maybe his eyes can hypnotize and I've been hypnotized all this time.
But I like it.

"Grandma's tea cup. It's yours if you want it."

I don't expect he'll ever be able to say, I love you. I'm not going to wait around for that.

I hand it back so he can wrap it up again.

"I'll come."

The End