"Jane Lindskold - Firekeeper Saga 4 - Wolf Captured" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lindskold Jane)

Derian touched his shirtfront, registering cold dampness there, stinging pain, but no fresh flow of blood.
He'd already forgotten the wound until Firekeeper had reminded him. He wanted to forget it again now,
but he forced himself to focus.

"I've been cut," he said, and heard the surprise in his voice. "Several times. Long, shallow slices. With
aтАж knife?"

Despite himself, the last word came out as a question.

Firekeeper answered from somewhere in the gloom. Derian wondered a little that she didn't come closer
now that she knew he was awake, but then Firekeeper saw far better in the dark than he didтАФthan any
human he'd ever heard of did.

"Yes. A knife. They cut you to bring me here. To bring me and Blind Seer."

"Blind Seer?"

Impressions were flooding back into Derian's mind now, competing with the ache, making the space
behind his eyes feel crowded.

Blind Seer, an enormous grey wolf with blue eyesтАФnamed for those eyes, which his parents had thought
meant he was blind until the staggering explorations of the pup had proven them wrong. A wolf with
parents, not merely sire and dam. Born of beasts with sufficient intelligence to worry about a damaged
pup, beasts possessed of the inhuman resignation to accept the handicap and the early death it promised
for a pup Derian knew meant as much to them as did any child to human parents.

"Blind Seer," Firekeeper's voice repeated. "He sleeps. They give us all to drink."

Derian processed this, enlightened by his throbbing head.

"We were drugged?"

Firekeeper snorted. Derian could almost see her toss her dark brown hair from even darker eyes. She
was rarely patient with the human tendency to repeat what to her was obvious.

"Firekeeper," Derian said, and made his voice as stern as he could. "I feel like shit. My head wants to
split open down the middle. Tell me what happened. Tell me slowly and carefully."

He heard a soft laugh.

"My head hurt, too," Firekeeper admitted. "I try to tell what happened, but keep voice down. We not
want them come."

"Them? Who?"

"Not know."
"Why don't you come sit next to me?" Derian felt almost frantic for physical contact.

"I no can. They have me inтАж " The pause came that meant the wolf-woman was struggling for a specific