"Karen Koehler - Slayer 02 - Dragon Blood" - читать интересную книгу автора (Koehler Karen)

тАЬA red sun?тАЭ Robin said, looking at it as if observing a grand piece of treasured art.
The boy nodded. тАЬHad the dream again.тАЭ

Something flitted across RobinтАЩs face, but it came and went too quickly for Alek to determine what it
was. Then she looked again at the boy and smiled.

The boy was not looking at her, however. He was staring at Alek standing in the corner of the room, his
hands folded across his sword.

Alek caught a glance of the paper in RobinтАЩs hand. There was something there...a man in black with
black hair, drawn in a childish scribble but still clearly recognizable. Alek might have dismissed it then and
there, except the man was holding a long stick in his right hand.

A stick or a sword.

тАЬDanny,тАЭ Robin said to the boy as she broke eye contact with Alek, тАЬThis is a friend. HeтАЩs going to stay
with us tonight.тАЭ

I am?

You are?Debra.

Alek opened his mouth to say...what? He closed it again and only looked at the boy, this little carbon
copy of Robin, but with dark glistening eyes and black tousled, too-long hair.

Robin said, тАЬThis is Danny...my son.тАЭ

Alek tried on a wan smile, then thought about what he must look like--a man in a long black coat holding
a sword like some kind of jonin Samurai about to go into battle--and he put the katana away as
discreetly as possible. Somehow he still didnтАЩt think he looked harmless, but it would have to do. The
boy looked at him as if expecting something. Shit. He never knew what to say or how to act around
children, having never had any of his own.

He crossed his arms and tried to smile. тАЬHi, Danny.тАЭ

Danny smiled at him. A wondrous, brilliant smile. тАЬYouтАЩre the dream man,тАЭ he said. тАЬHi.тАЭ

10


тАЬDoes Danny have those dreams often?тАЭ Alek asked as he finished bandaging RobinтАЩs ankle. The
swelling was still bad and, frankly, he had no idea how she would cope in the next few days without
some kind of medical attention, but she would not listen to him about seeing a doctor.

тАЬWhat dreams would that be?тАЭ Robin asked innocently as she grimaced from the tightness of the
bandage. She glanced briefly at the kitchenette where Danny sat busily scrawling on whatever he could
findтАФold fliers, fallen bits of wallpaper. Anything, it seemed.

He reminded Alek of himself as a child.