"Jean Lorrah - Empire 02 - Dragonlord of the Savage Empire" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lorrah Jean)

anything their men would have done for themтАФyou are to do it. Do not think you can neglect this charge
without my knowing. Arkus, ride back to the village with these men and extend my sympathy to the boy's
family. Give them a measure of silver. It will not compensate, but perhaps it will ease their lives a bit."



The utter astonishment of the peasants followed Lenardo as he and Helmuth rode back toward their
train. The old man said, "That was a very good move, my lord. It is exactly what the Lady Aradia would
have done."



"Aradia could have stopped them before the boy was murdered," Lenardo replied bitterly.



"But she wouldn't have known it was happening at all," Helmuth pointed out.
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That was true. Readers and Adepts had individual powers, but when they worked together. . . .



How life has changed in just a few short weeks!



Lenardo had been a teacher in the Academy at Adigia, expecting to spend the rest of his life there, until
Adigia was attacked by savage Adepts under the direction of a Reader: Galen, a boy Lenardo had
trained but who had turned traitor to the empire. The only person who could hope to take Galen from the
enemy was another Reader. Lenardo, who had taught Galen the techniques he had turned upon his own
people, volunteered to go, speaking the same traitorous words Galen had in order to be condemned to
exile: "We cannot fight the savages off. They are defeating us with their Adept powers. We must offer to
share our Readers' abilities with them in order to gain peace."



The words were a lie at the time he spoke them. But now I believe them, he thought as he rode beside
Helmuth, angling back toward the road.



Arkus joined them, reporting, "You really surprised those men, my lord. Drakonius would have
destroyed their whole village if they'd gone against his will."