"Sharon Green - Mists of the Ages" - читать интересную книгу автора (Green Sharon)

sharing the joke.
тАЬI love talking about old times, donтАЩt you?тАЭ Sharp asked me with a wide grin
still in place, one hand brushing at her reddish brown hair. She was a small
woman but very rounded for her size, and looked even smaller sitting beside
Ricco. тАЬWe used to have such fun together, Inky, but the fun doesnтАЩt have to
stay in the past. If you come back to us, we can have the same all over again.тАЭ
тАЬWe might have fan, but it would never be what we once had,тАЭ I disagreed,
deciding it was time we got the matter settled out loud. тАЬYou three worked with
Seero for a couple of years, but I was raised by him. If he hadnтАЩt kept his word
to my mother to look after me, I would have ended up in one of those orphan
shelters after she died. He forced me to go to school, bribed me into learning
something there by refusing to teach me anything he knew unless I got good
grades, and always had the time to listen if there was something I needed to
talk about. He was always there for me. Sharp, but when he needed me, all I
could do was stand by and watch him die.тАЭ
тАЬYou were there?тАЭ she asked, sharing her disturbance with the glances she sent
Tris and Ricco, getting the same back from them. тАЬWe thought Seero was out alone
that night. But InkyтАФhis getting killed was an accident, something no one could
have prevented. His line slipped, and even if youтАЩd been right next to it you
couldnтАЩt have ...тАЭ
тАЬHis line didnтАЩt slip,тАЭ I corrected flatly, watching her pale as her eyes
flinched away from my gaze. I knew what I looked like when I thought or spoke
about that night, and innocent was about as far from it as itтАЩs possible to get.
I was about to go on when a buzz sounded, letting us know someone was entering
our field, and then a harried waiter was beside the booth, putting a cup of javi
on the table in front of me. If IтАЩd wanted something to eat I would have used
the booth menu to order it directly from the kitchen, but javi, unless refused
when you first come in, is brought automatically to everyone. Our part of the
crowd of regulars had developed that custom for the club, and it had slowly

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spread until everyone was doing the same. We all waited until the waiter was
gone out of the field again, and then Ricco leaned forward.
тАЬWhat do you mean, SeeroтАЩs line didnтАЩt slip?тАЭ he demanded, his big hands on the
tableтАЩs edge, his expression harsh with confusion. тАЬIt was all over the news the
next day, and the thuds read a statement about it. тАШDeath by misadventure during
an attempted felonyтАЩ was the way it was put, and that was after theyтАЩd
investigated. Are you trying to say it was a coverup?тАЭ
тАЬIтАЩm trying to say they werenтАЩt there,тАЭ I answered, reaching for my cup of javi.
Black was the way I drank it, as black as my hair, and preferably as strong as
my resolve for revenge. тАЬRicco, you and Sharp and Tris have a decision to make.
I can tell you the whole story, or we can simply drink javi and reminisce about
old times. If you decide on the story, I canтАЩt guarantee the safety of any of
you.тАЭ
That time even Sharp didnтАЩt have anything immediate to say, and their three
expressions were almost identical. In the life-niche we and others like us
occupied, there was a great deal of truth to the proverb, тАЬIgnorance is bliss.тАЭ
Too often just knowing about something put you in line for erasure, and it made