"Mercedes Lackey & Josepha Shennan - Castle of Deception" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lackey Mercedes)

might meet along the way. You're a bardling, not a
trained warrior."

"I can handle a sword!"

10 Mercedes Lackey S^Josepha Sherman

"But you won't," the Bard ordered bluntly. "A
musician doesn't dare risk injuring his hands."

"Well, yes, of course, butтАФ "

"I repeat, you are not a trained warrior. If someone
attacked you, you wouldn't stand a chance of defend-
ing yourself."

"I'm nearly sixteen!" Kevin began body. "I can take
care of myself!"

But the Bard was no longer listening to him. Head
cocked, the old man murmured, "Well now, do you
hear that?"

"Singing?" the bardling said in surprise. Who in that
quiet town would suddenly be frivolous enough to
burst into song? And raucous song at that!

"I wonder," the Bard murmured to himself. "Can it
be... so soon?"

He moved slowly to the window. Kevin followed,
looking over the man's shoulder at a laughing group of
folks on horseback clattering into the courtyard, sur-
rounding two gaudy red and blue wagons. The riders'
cloaks and tunics fluttered in the wind, their many
colors so bright he could have sworn they were cut
from scraps of rainbows. The man who seemed to be
the leader, driving the first wagon, wore a robe that edit-'
tiered like the sun itself.

"It^sjust a troop of minstrels," Kevin began, but his
Master was already calling out the window: "Berak!"




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The leader glanced up, his sharp-featured, green-