"Karen Haber - Thieves' Carnival" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haber Karen)

Ciaran had found that children loved the tales in the Distance Cycle particularly. Their imaginations were
still elastic enough not to see the ridiculous side. He always gave the telling a lot of schmaltz. And the one
legend in the Cycle that had always maintained its original shape under the battering of generations was
the one about Ben Beatha, the Mountain of Life, being the dwelling place of Bas the Immortal and his
androids and the Kalds. And somewhere under Ben Beatha was the Stone of Destiny, whose possession
could give a man eternal life and the powers of any god you chose to believe in.

Ciaran had toyed with that one in spite of his skepticism. Now it looked as though he was going to see
for himself.

He looked at the Kalds, the creatures who didn't exist, and found his skepticism shaken. Shaken so hard
he felt sick with it, like a man waking up to find a nightmare beside him in the flesh, booting his guts in.

тАФfrom The Jewel of Bas, by Leigh Brackett

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