"Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth 2 - Stone of Tears" - читать интересную книгу автора (Goodkind Terry)

Laughing in a loud howl, it jumped back on Chase as he was pulling his axe
from his belt. Rachel screamed again as the claws tore at Chase. The thing was
faster than any animal she had ever seen. Its claws were just a blur.

Rachel was terrified Chase was being hurt. It flung the axe out of Chase's
hand, laughing that awful laugh. It was hurting Chase. Rachel had the fire
stick in her hand.

She jumped forward and put the fire stick on its back. She screamed the magic
words to make the fire stick work. 'Light for me!'

The dark thing burst into flames. It made a horrible scream as it spun to her.
Its mouth opened wide, teeth snapping as flames burned all over it. It laughed
again, but not like people laughed when they thought things were funny. Its
laugh made her skin prickle. It hunched over and started walking toward her,
still on fire, as Rachel backed up.

Chase let out a grunt as he threw one of the clubs with the sharp spikes
sticking out of it. The club hit the thing's back, and stuck in its shoulder.
It looked around at Chase and laughed as it reached behind and pulled the club
from its back. It started for Chase again.

Zedd was up. Fire flew from his fingers, covering the thing with even more
flames. It laughed at Zedd. All the fire went out. Smoke rose from it. Its
body looked the same now as before it got burned. In fact, it had looked like
it was dark from being burned even before Rachel had set it on fire.
Chase was on his feet, and there was blood on him. Rachel got tears at seeing
that. Chase snatched the crossbow off his back and in a blink he shot an
arrow. It stuck in the thing's chest. With that terrible laugh it snapped the
arrow off.

Chase threw aside the crossbow and yanked out the sword from over his
shoulder, then ran for the thing, jumping over it as he stabbed with the
sword. The thing moved so fast Chase missed. Zedd did something that sent the
thing tumbling across the grass. Chase put himself in front of Rachel, pushing
her back with one hand while he held the sword out in the other.

The thing sprang to its feet again, looking at each of them.

'Walk!' Zedd yelled at them. 'Don't run! Don't stand still!'

Chase grabbed Rachel's wrist and started walking backward. Zedd started
walking backward, too. The dark thing stopped laughing and looked at each of
them, blinking. Chase was breathing hard. His chain-mail shirt and the tan
leather tunic under it had big rips from the claws. Rachel got more tears at
all the blood on him. Blood was running down his arm onto her hand. She didn't
want him to be hurt. She loved him something fierce. She clutched Sara and the
fire stick tighter.

Zedd stopped. 'Keep walking,' he told Chase.