"Robert Don Hughes - Pelman 01 - The Prophet Of Lamath" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hughes Robert Don)

"Him," Vicia growled, growing irritated at the player's badgering tone. Then Vicia stopped. He looked at Heinox.

Heinox was already looking at Vicia. "Him?" Heinox muttered. The group of people below kept very quiet.

"I think I need to reason this out-" Vicia began, and Heinox said, "I think so too." The dragon looked at himself in
great confusion.

Pelman bent to whisper again in Bronwynn's ear. "You see the plateau at the high point of the pass?" She nodded.
"When I shout, make for that plateau, and then run to your left." "But that's Ngandib-Mar!" she protested.
"Chaomonous is behind us-" "When the confusion begins, make for Ngandib-Mar," he repeated strongly. He began
to plot the quickest route to Pezi's horse.

"I just said I need to reason this out," Vicia repeated.

"I did too," said Heinox.
"Yes, but-" "But what?" "But I already said that!" Vicia growled.

"I know!" Heinox growled back.

"I know I know! I said I knew!" Vicia growled again, more loudly this time.

"I know I said I knew! I said I said I knew!" Heinox trumpeted back.

"I know!" screeched Vicia.

"Now!" grunted Pelman, and Bronwynn scrambled up the divide as quickly as her legs and gowns would allow her.
Pelman drove toward Pezi's horse. The other slaves, still chained together, began to run this way and that, pulling each
other backward and forward in a deadly serious game of whiplash, a centipede of people trying desperately to get
coordinated. Pezi, seeing Pelman grab the reins of his mount, hustled down the slope to jerk up the reins of the fallen
rider's horse, which whinnied and backed away from this heavyweight who was trying to mount it. The fallen rider,
who was just coming to, surveyed the chaos around him and decided he had been better off unconscious. He fainted
once again.

And high in the sky, a curious thing was taking place. Vicia-Heinox, at an advanced age, had suddenly been
confronted with a terrible identity crisis.

"I am trying to understand this, will I please cooperate?" Vicia bellowed.

"I am cooperating! I can't understand why I'm not cooperating!" Heinox screeched back.

Pelman mounted Pezi's horse and kicked its sides. The beast sprang forward, puzzled but delighted at the lightness of
this new rider. Bronwynn was about to reach the pass proper, and Pelman urged the horse toward her at a trot.

"They're getting away!" Heinox shouted. "Can't I see they are getting away?" "Of course I can see it!" Vicia rumbled.
The sound echoed off the sides of the canyon with a presence numbing to the ears, like a thunderclap at close range.

"Focus! Focus!" Heinox cried, but it was no use. As Heinox focused on Pelman, who was moving up the pass and
bending down to sweep the golden Princess up onto the horse behind him, Vicia was focusing on Pezi, who was
urging his reluctant animal into pursuit. Heinox shifted to focus on Pezi, but Vicia had turned to focus on Pelman. The
great dragon gave a headsplitting, blood-chilling, back-bending scream of utter frustration, and flew straight up into