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

very strange to me. But I can understand you, if I listen
with my under-hearing. You talk a little like the seraphim
and the nephilim. You can understand me?"

The twins looked at each other. Sandy said, "I hadn't
really thought about it till now- If I think about it, you do
sound, well, different, but I can understand you. Right,
Den?"

"Right," Dennys agreed. "Except it was easier when we
weren't thinking about it."

"Come on," Japheth urged. "Let's go." He looked at
Sandy. "You'd better rover yourself, too."

Sandy followed Dennys's example and pulled on his
turtleneck.

Dennys unrolled his flannel shirt and draped it over his
head. "Sort of like a burnoose to keep us from getting
sunstroke."

"Good idea." Sandy did the same.

22 тАв^┬г- MANY WATERS

"If," Dennys added morosely, "it isn't already too late."
Then he said. "Hey, JaphтАФ" stumbled over the name-
"Hey, Jay, what's that?"

On the horizon to the far left, moving toward them,
appeared a creature which shimmered in and out of their
vision, silvery in color, as large as a goat or a pony, with
light flickering out from its forehead.

Sandy also shortened Japheth's name. "What's that,
Jay?" The mammoth pushed its head under Sandy's hand.
and he began to scratch between the great fan-like ears.

Japheth looked toward the barely visible creature, smil-
ing in recognition. "Oh, that's a unicorn. They're very
odd. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't- If we
want one, we call and it'll usually appear."

"Did you call on one?" Sandy asked.

"Higgaion may have thought about one, but he didn't
really call it. That's why it isn't all the way solid. Unicorns
are even better about scenting for water than mammoths,
except that you can't always count on them. But probably