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

nice house, good, steady work. Love you, lad, I think
the spring's gotten into you." She shooed him away
with soapy hands. "Now, get along with you, Kevin. I
have work to do."

The bardling wandered on down Bracklin's one street
to the end. It didn't take long. He stood looking out over
the fields beyond die edge of town, each neatly plowed
strip of land exactly like the next, and shuddered.
Making his way back towards the Blue Swan, Kevin
politely returned the greetings of baker and seamstress
and butcher. All of them, he realized, were quite
peacefully going about their various tasks just as they did
every day. And not a one of them seemed to mind! Sud-
denly frustrated to the point of screaming, Kevin hurried
back into the inn and his room. At least he could learn a
new song!

There wasn't a sound out of his Master's room. Of
course not The old Bard probably had his nose buried


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in old manuscripts, just as he had whenever he wasn't
playing himself, or giving the bardling a music lesson
тАФjust as he had for almost all the time Kevin had
studied with him.

/ know he's hunting/or something important. But he won't
tell me what it is! And while he hunts through all those dusty
books, I'm stuck here in Bracklin with him. Fm not a child
anymore! I can't be content Hke this!

The bardling snatched up his lute and struck a few

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savage chords. But he couldn't play anything with that
broken string.

"Blast it all to Darkness!"

Kevin rummaged through the mess on floor and
table till he found a replacement string. This was
ridiculous? All Master Aidan had to do was say the
word, and King Amber would gladly name him the
royal bard. They could be living in the royal palace
right now.