"Fancher, Jane - Rings 2 - Ring Of Intrigue" - читать интересную книгу автора (Fancher Jane S)

She held her hand just off his elbowjust in caseand
waited for him to return to her.
He was staring at the back of the guards, wondering to
whom those men might belong, knowing it was important.
He should know. . . .
He did know, and the guard was ahead of Deymorin,
not himself. Mikhyel sent a sharp-edged thought upstream
against the ignorance:
{GorTarim, Deymorin. Sironi goiTarim. Captain.}
And knew he'd been heard when Deymorin's head
jerked. And on the thread back to him came acknowledg-
ment. Apology.
Anger. Against Tarim.
But anger wasn't in order. Yet. Mikhyel counseled
Deymorin silently against assuming Tarim was responsible.
There were other possibilities, and falsely accusing Tarim
might well turn Sironi actively against them.
Deymorin's broad shoulders relaxed.
So much depended upon who was actually in control of
the Tower. If Anheliaa was in charge, their processing
should be fairly straightforward. If he could just get to the
Tower and talk, face-to-face with his aunt, their differences
could be put rapidly into perspective. It wasn't as if they'd
returned to Rhomatum to throw her out, he would argue.
With only Lidye romNikaenor to replace her in the Tower,
they'd be fools to try to overthrow Anheliaa.
Anheliaa would understand that level of paranoid
reasoning.
But Anheliaa's death was, of course, the eventuality Lid-
ye's father awaited. And Lidye's father's man was marching
them toward Sparingate. Lidye's father might well want
their return to the City kept from Anheliaa. Possibly even
from Lidye.
Lidye was, from his observations of her, a weak and eas-
ily swayed individual. A father might well want strong-
minded Rhomandis kept away from herat least until he
had firmly established his own power base within
Rhomatum.
Laughter burst from Nikki and Deymorin, sauntering
arm in arm ahead of him. The mental thread that was a
constant in his life these days carried images of other tun-
nels, other underground rooms, and shared adventures.
And a determinedly cheerful outlook from Deymorin.
Deymorin didn't want Nikki worrying, he wanted them all
to project confidence to their guards, not concern.
Mikhyel was doubly glad, then, that Kiyrstin had chosen
to walk beside him. Pairing Deymorin with Nikki not only
prevented Nikki from intercepting Mikhyel's dark thoughts,
it gave his brothers this opportunity, however contrived, to
share fond memories.