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

тАЬNow, Anmurdio is much farther off than this map makes it look,тАЭ Daeno remarked. тАЬSo who knows
how far away these are.тАЭ

He laid one bony finger on the тАЬtheseтАЭ in question, a group of four islands, drawn entirely too circular to
be accurate, floating far to the south of Anmurdio. Out in the middle of the ocean in between, the scribe
had drawn a sea serpent and a fat monster with big fangs. Daeno picked up the map and flipped it over
to reveal several lines of tiny, spiky writing, faded to a pale brown, on the back.

тАЬVairo the merchant made this map by the grace of the Star Goddesses in the reign of Archon Trono.
That was in 977 by Deverry reckoning, Jill, well, give or take a year, anyway.тАЭ
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тАЬYou have my sincere thanks for going to all this trouble.тАЭ

тАЬYouтАЩre most welcome. IтАЩm afraid itтАЩs not much of a map.тАЭ

тАЬItтАЩs better than no map at all, and itтАЩll be something to show round once we get to Anmurdio.тАЭ

тАЬYou know, there are supposed to be cannibals in the smaller islands.тАЭ

тАЬJust like thereтАЩs supposed to be sea serpents out in the southern ocean?тАЭ

Daeno laughed, nodding his head in agreement while he rolled up the map.

тАЬThe thing is,тАЭ Jill went on. тАЬIтАЩm never going to get a merchant here onMainIslandto risk his ship and his
fortune on some daft scheme of sailing to the far south. Or well, there was one, but he has a wife and
three children, and I couldnтАЩt let him. I just couldnтАЩt.тАЭ

тАЬOf course not.тАЭ Daeno paused to swat at the gnomes, who were scurrying this way and that on the
counter. тАЬIтАЩm surprised you found anyone at all. Who was it, by the bye? A local man?тАЭ

тАЬNo, a merchant up in Orysat, Kladyo by name.тАЭ

тАЬElaenoтАЩs boy?тАЭ

тАЬThe very one! Do you knowтАФoh, of course youтАЩd know Elaeno!тАЭ

тАЬWell, not intimately or anything, but weтАЩve met in the flesh and then, of course, out on the etheric we
run into one another from time to time. Hum, am I right in this? I heard that his master in the dweomer
was a Deverry man.тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs true, and it was the same person who taught me. Nevyn, his name was.тАЭ

Daeno whistled under his breath. The gnomes all went dead-still to listen.

тАЬNotthe Nevyn?тАЭ the old man said. тАЬOh, listen to me! There could only be one!тАЭ