"Jean Lorrah - Savage Empire 05 - Sorcerers of the Frozen Isles" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lorrah Jean)

learn here. Let the adventurous ones goтАФand if they find the Madurans friendly and willing to trade
knowledge and goods, if they have these healing powers you're so eager for, then of course you will go
and study in one of their hospitals. But to undertake a long, dangerous journey on the basis of a few
exaggerated talesтАФ"

"You sound just like Lenardo!" she said in exas-peration. "Torio, you're youngтАФdon't you want some
adventure in your life? I do. I love you, but I don't want to stay here just because you're afraid to stir out
of one safe little havenтАФ"

"Just yesterday I was nearly killed in this 'safe little haven'! Melissa, I have had enough adventure in the
past two years to last a lifetime. If you want to go with ZanosтАФ"

Suddenly Melissa was no longer leaning against him. He could feel her, still on the bench beside him,
sitting bolt upright as she demanded, "What did you say?"

At a loss to explain her reaction, he repeated, "I've had enough adventureтАФ"

'"NoтАФafter that."

"I started to say, if you want to go with Zanos, I won't try to stop you except to ask you to think it
through with me."

He could feel her eyes boring into him, and let himself Read her. She was staring at him in alarm, Reading
him in return. "TorioтАФI'm sorry. What I said to you was out of lineтАФbut you don't even know what you
said to me!"

"Well, what did I say?"

He could feel her fear and concern as she told him, "You broke off in the middle of a sentence. Then you
took your arm away from around me, focused your eyes on me the way you do when you're
ReadingтАФexcept that I knew you were not seeing meтАФand then you said, 'Your destiny, Melissa, is to
be found in the frozen isle of Madura. Zanos' fate lies not there, but in a land he has never seen, beyond
the southern sea.' "

"That's silly," he said. "I don't talk that way, and I'd certainly know if I said any such thing. I'm trying to
talk you out of going to Madura, so why would IтАФ?"

But he could Read that she had heard him say the very words she claimedтАФhe Read it through her eyes,
saw himself, heard his voice speak it.

"By the gods!" he whispered.

"IтАж I think so," whispered Melissa in return.

"Well," said Torio, "if what I said is true, if your destiny truly does lie in MaduraтАФthen so does mine!"

Chapter Two
Prophecy!" said Master Clement when Torio and Melissa let him and Lenardo Read their memories of
what had happened in the courtyard. "Son, this is a rare gift, and a dangerous one."