"Tanya Huff - When The Student Is Ready" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

gains power. They're arguing over who should get to teach you, and so they'll argue and stop each other
from coming to you until it's too late." He peered nervously around the terrace, hands wrapped in the
bottom of his T-shirt. "I've seen it before."

"Haven't they?"

"Yes. But it's their own places in the web of power they're concerned with, not yours."

"Wizards, as a rule, aren't very nice people," Godfry snorted. "You should fit right in."

"Yeah, you'd fit in a roasting pan, so if I were you, I'd be careful."


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"Oh, I'm so scared." Wings flapping, he hopped along the back of the chair. "Help, help, cranky
teenager!"

"Stop it!" Fred's voice rang out with surprising force. "We haven't time."

"Oh, like you care," Isabel snapped. " 'A wizard with an apprentice gains power,' remember? You're in it
for yourself like everyone else."

He frowned, confused. "What would I do with more power?"

She opened her mouth and closed it again. Even clean, he still had the frayed-at-the-edges look of the
street. "Okay. Good poiтАж" Her eyes widened involuntarilyтАФ another physical sensation she could have
happily done withoutтАФand she jabbed a finger toward the sky. "Look!"

Fred and Godfry turned just as the clouds drifted into new formations.

"I see a horsy," the crow mocked.

"There were eyes," Isabel insisted. "Blood-red eyes in the clouds."

"It was the sunset through a couple of clear spots."

"It was not." Fred's hands were rolled so high in his T-shirt she could see the hollow curve under the
edge of his ribs. "The first lesson is to trust what you actually see and not what you think you should
see."

"Or what I want should be there," Godfry muttered. "If you two want to see blood-red eyes in the clouds,
be my guest, I don't."

Unwinding a hand, Fred rested it lightly on the crow's back. "What you want doesn't change anything.
But what you wantтАж" He turned to Isabel. "тАж does. You have to agree to become my apprentice. Your
choice."