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

тАЬI just wanted to thank you for allowing Salamander to take us on like this. If he werenтАЩt advancing us
the passage home, I donтАЩt know what weтАЩd do.тАЭ

тАЬWell, it was his decision, but youтАЩre all welcome enough.тАЭ

тАЬOh, please!тАЭ Keeta laughed, a pleasant if rather deep chuckle. тАЬItтАЩs obvious that you do the deciding
around here, no matter how much he talks, and by the Star Goddesses themselves, he does a lot of
talking, doesnтАЩt he? But IтАЩm glad that weтАЩll be taking Marka away from her father before she gets cold
feet and runs back to him.тАЭ

тАЬKin ties are hard to break, and sheтАЩs very young.тАЭ

тАЬUm.тАЭ Keeta sat down on the edge of the tiled fountain. Even sitting while Jill stood, she looked Jill
straight in the face. тАЬSheтАЩs a wise child, old beyond her yearsтАФwell, in most things, that is. When it
comes to others . . . тАЭ

Jill waited, not quite sure of her drift. Keeta frowned at the dappled lantern light on the water.

тАЬIтАЩve seen it happen before,тАЭ Keeta said at last. тАЬA young girl same in the same troupe with some
good-looking man. Sometimes thereтАЩs trouble over itтАФtrouble for her, anyway. I intend to talk some
sense into her head. You donтАЩt need to worry about her making a fool of herself over vour man.тАЭ

тАЬWhat?тАЭ Jill burst out laughing. тАЬLet me assure you that SalamanderтАЩs nothing of the sort! HeтАЩs more like
a brother to me than anything.тАЭ
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тАЬOh! Well, that takes care of half the problem, then.тАЭ

тАЬAnd the other half is?тАЭ

тАЬIтАЩd hate to see little Marka pregnant and deserted.тАЭ

тАЬHe wouldnтАЩt do that. Oddly enough. He looks like the sort of man whoтАЩd leave with never a backward
glance, but heтАЩs not. IтАЩll give him a fair bit of creditтАФheтАЩs got more honor around women than most men
do.тАЭ

тАЬWouldnтАЩt be hard, huh?тАЭ Keeta considered for a long moment before she smiled. тАЬWell, that eases my
mind, I must say. I didnтАЩt want to see the child get free of one mess only to land in another.тАЭ

Although Keeta took the lantern and went back inside, Jill lingered in the cooler air. By then the moon,
just past her full, had sailed tover her zenith and was beginning to sink off to the west. The silver light fell
dappled through the sparse trees and danced on the mcoving surface of the fountain. As Jill watched, the
light seemed to thicken and take shape like the drift of smoke over a dying campfire. At first she assumed
that it was merely some of the Wildfolk in a semimaterialized form, playing in the water; then she realized
that the waft of palpable light was swirling, growing, stretching upward as it spiraled round to make a
silver pillar some ten feet high and four across. Inside the pillar, glowing all silver, stood a vaguely elven