"02 - An Excess of Enchantments" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gardner Craig Shaw)

Once upon a time. Once upon a time.

TWO

"There are two sides to every issue."

--Words (which some were surprised he

was still alive to speak) uttered by

Ebenezum the Wizard to the elite

assassin guards of King Snerdlot the

Vengeful, after the king decided to

question the parentage of some of his

offspring by Queen Vivazia, who did have

a habit of long and personal

consultations with gentlemen wearing

wizard's robes. Few realize, however,

that the fleeing Ebenezum was at the

time disguised as a costermonger

(although on closer inspection his garb

might have passed for a wizard's

nightshirt), and furthermore, that he

managed to cast Gleebzum's Spell of

Universal Guilt among the assassins,

which caused them to spend the rest of that afternoon

repeatedly arresting each other.

10

Once upon a time, a young lad named Wuntvor traveled far from his native land, seeing the sights and having many adventures. So it was that he came over a hill and saw a bright and verdant valley spread before him. Brilliant sunlight shone down on green trees and golden crops, and Wuntvor thought that he had never seen a place as beautiful as this in all his travels.

He left the hilltop and began his descent into the valley. But he had not gone a dozen paces before he saw a handpainted sign hanging from one of the beautiful, green trees. And on that sign, in large red letters, someone had painted a single word: