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

"Even if they didn't know his will?"



"That way, people got to know it very quickly." The young officer grinned, and Lenardo felt a moment's
disgust at his callousness.



"Arkus, the destruction of people's lives is never amusing."



Arkus sobered. "My lord, I have not forgotten that you spared my life. Whatever your will, I shall serve
you."



But Arkus did not really understand. Years of teaching had given Lenardo patience. Only time and
exposure to a different way of thinking would change Arkus's attitude. Just as leaving the empire changed
mine.
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Leaving the empire in total ignorance, only by good fortune did Lenardo escape being taken by
Drakonius. Fortune or fateтАФhe was not certain what to term the sequence of events that had led him to
wander, delirious with fever from an infection in his branded arm, into Aradia's lands. There his
wolf's-head pendantтАФa gift from an old friend on his day of exileтАФwas identified as the sign of the Lady
Aradia, leader of an alliance of Adepts seeking to halt the spread of Drakonius' power and cruelty.



Aradia's father, Nerius, the one Adept with powers to equal Drakonius', was dying of a tumorous
growth in his brain. With Lenardo's Reading to guide them, Aradia and her foster brother, Wulfston, had
been able to dissolve the growthтАФand the old Adept had recovered in time to lead mem in battle when
Drakonius attacked.



In that battle, Nerius had been struck through by one of the thunderbolts that were the Adepts' most
powerful weapon. But Drakonius had also died, and all his Adept henchmen with him. And Galen. My
student, Lenardo reminded himself. My fault his life was blighted. How can I take responsibility for other
lives after Galen?



The battle in which Galen died had taken place only a week ago. By savage custom, Aradia had divided
the land they had won, awarding part of it to her brother Wulfston, part to the Lady Lilith, the only ally