"03 - Time Streams" - читать интересную книгу автора (McGough Scott)

- Barrin, Mage Master of Tolaria



Part I

SCHOOL OF TIME



Chapter 1



Jhoira stood at the edge of her world. Behind her lay

the isle of Tolaria, its palm forests and lecture halls

overrun with magical prodigies and clockwork creatures. It

was a realm of ceaseless tests and pointless trials and

worries and work, lots of work.

Before her lay the blue ocean, the blue sky, and the

illimitable world. Clouds piled into empyrean mountain

ranges above the shimmering sea. White waves broke on the

ragged rocks below. Beyond the thin, brilliant line of the

horizon, the whole world waited. Her soul mate was out there

somewhere, she dreamed. Everything was out there-her

homeland, her parents, her Shivan tribe, her future.

Jhoira sighed and slouched down to sit on a sun-warmed

shoulder of sandstone. Sea winds sent her long black hair

dancing about her thin shoulders. Breezes coursed, warm and

familiar, through her white student robes. She'd spent many

hours in this sunny niche, her refuge from the academy, but