"Katherine Kerr - Deverry 06 - A Time Of Omens" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kerr Katherine)

тАЬYouтАЩll take her far away, far, far away, and never shall I see her again.тАЭ

тАЬCome with her, then. Follow her, the way all of your people are going to do. Join us all in life.тАЭ
Dallandra glanced ElessarioтАЩs way. тАЬDo you want to go with your mother?тАЭ

тАЬNo, I want to stay with you.тАЭ

Alshandra howled, swelling up tall and strong, dressed like a hunter in her doeskin tunic and boots, the
bow clasped in red-veined hands.

тАЬHave it your way, witch! YouтАЩll lose this battle in the end. I swear it. IтАЩve found some as will help me,
back in that ugly little world of yours. IтАЩve made friends there, powerful friends. TheyтАЩll get me my
daughter back the moment she tries to leave us. IтАЩll make them promise, and I know they will, because
they grovel at my feet, they do.тАЭ

She was gone, winking out like a blown flame, but all round them the wind seemed cold and the sunlight,
shadowed. Shaking and pale, Elessario leaned into DallandraтАЩs clasp.

тАЬFriends? Groveling?тАЭ Evandar said. тАЬI wonder what she means by that. I very much do. IтАЩd say it
bodes ill, an ill-omened thing all round.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩd never argue with you.тАЭ Dalla felt her voice as very small and weak. тАЬWeтАЩd best try to find out what
she means by friends.тАЭ

тАЬWill the finding be a safe thing? I donтАЩt know, mind. IтАЩm asking you.тАЭ

тАЬI donтАЩt know, either. CanтАЩt we get away from all this music and the noise and ail?тАЭ

тАЬOf course. Ell, I fear to leave you alone. Come with us.тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩm so tired, Father. I donтАЩt want to.тАЭ

тАЬWell, IтАЩm not going to leave you sleeping beside the river like a falconтАЩs lure. IтАФтАЭ All at once he
smiled. тАЬVery well, my love, my daughter, my darling. Rest you shall have. Dalla, if youтАЩll step here to my
side?тАЭ

Puzzled, Dallandra did just that. Evandar raised one hand and waved out a circle that seemed to float
from his fingers and ring his daughter round. He chanted, too, in some language that Dallandra had never
heard before, just softly, briefly while Elessario yawned, reaching up to rub her eyes. It seemed that the
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wind caught her hair and tossed it, spread it out around her as she reached up higher, grabbed at it, her
fingers turning long and slender, growing out, her arms reaching, stretching, stiffening, suddenly, as
gray-brown bark wrapped her body round, and her hair, all green and gold, sprouted into leaves. A
young oak tree, some seven feet tall and slender, nodded in the evening wind.

тАЬAlshandra the Inelegant will never think to look for her there,тАЭ Evandar remarked. тАЬShe truly can be a