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

With its supple trunk, the little animal, the size of a
small dog or a large cat, indicated the twins.

The young man patted its head. He was so small that
he did not have to bend down. "Thank El you're all right."
He gestured toward the twins. "They seem friendly. They
say they aren't giants, and while they are as tall as seraphim



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or nephilim, they don't seem to be of their kind."

Cautiously, the little animal 'approached Sandy, who
dropped to one knee, holding out his hand for the creature
to sniff. Then, tentatively, he began to scratch the hairy
chest, as he would have scratched their dog at home. When
the little animal relaxed under his touch, he asked Japheth,
"What's seraphim?"

"And nephilim," Dennys added. If they could find out
what these people were who were as tall as they, it might
give them some kind of a clue as to where they had landed.

"Oh, very tall," Japheth said. "Like you, but different-
Great wings. Much long hair. And their bodiesтАФlike you,
not hairy. The seraphim are golden and the nephilim are

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white, whiter than sand. Your skinтАФit is different. Pale,
and smooth, and as though you never saw sun."

"At home, it's still winter," Sandy explained. "We get
very tan in the summer when we work outdoors."

"Your little animal," Dennys questioned, "looks sort of
like an elephant, but what is it?"

"It's a mammoth." Japheth slapped the creature affec-
tionately.

Sandy withdrew his hand from petting Higgaion. "But
mammoths are supposed to be huge!"

Dennys saw in his mind's eye a picture of a mammoth
in a nature book at home, very like Japheth's animal.
japheth himself was a miniature version of a strong and