"Madeline L' Engle - Time Quartet 04 - Many Waters" - читать интересную книгу автора (L'Engle Madeleine)

The young man nodded. "Are you two? Or one?" He
rubbed his eyes perplexedly.

"Two," Sandy said. "We're twins. I'm Sandy. 'He's
Dennys."

"Twins?" Japheth asked, his fingers once more reaching
for the pouch at his side. which appeared to be filled with
tiny arrows, about two inches long.

Dennys opened his hands wide. "Twins are when"тАФhe
had started to give a scientific explanation, stopped him-
selfтАФ"when a mother has a litter of two babies instead of
one." His voice was soothing.

"You're animals, then?" i.

Sandy shook his head. "We're boys." He was ready to
ask "What are you?" when he noticed a liny bow near the
pouch of arrows.

"No. No." The young man looked at them doubtfully.
"Only giants are as tall as you. And the seraphim and
nephilim. But you have no wings."

What was this about wings? Dennys asked, "Please, JтАФ
JayтАФwhere are weP Where is this place?"

"The desert, about an hour from my oasis. I came out,
dowsing for water." He bent down and picked up a wand
of pliable wood. "Gopher wood is the best for dowsing,
and I had my grandfather'sтАФ" He stopped in midsen fence.
"Higgaion! Hig! Where are you?" he called, as the twins

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might have called for their dog at home. "Hig!" He looked,
wide-eyed, at the twins. "If anything has happened to him,
my grandfather willтАФthere are so few of them leftтАФ" He
called again urgently, "Higgaioni"

From behind the outcropping of rock came something
grey and sinuous which the twins at first thought was a
snake. But it was followed by a head with small, bright,
black eyes, and great fans of ears, and a chunky body cov-
ered with shaggy grey hair, and a thin little rope of a tail.

"Higgaion!" The young man was joyful. "Why didn't
you come when I called you?"