"Dennis L. McKiernan - Mithgar - Eye of the Hunter" - читать интересную книгу автора (McKiernan Dennis L)

straight black hair and moustache and beard. The sledmaster was
dressed in a fur-lined parka with matching breeks and mukluks, his
mitten-gloved hands firmly gripping the hide-wrapped handlebar, his feet
well-planted on the sled runners.
In turn, the Aleutan saw before him two beings of ancient legend,
dressed in quilted down: Mygga he had named them, though they called
themselves Warrows. A small, slender folk, with tilted, jewel-like eyes,
and pointed ears, and a ready smileтАФeyes and ears and pale skin much
like that of the F├й, the "Elves," in the sleds behind. But unlike the F├й, the
Mygga were small, child size, no bigger than six- or seven-year-old
Aleutan children, standing as they did somewhere between three and
three and a half feet tall, with the male Mygga, Gwylly, being slightly
larger than the female, Faeril; why, they were barely taller than Rak or
Kano, B'arr's great power dogs at the back of the team.
The F├й, the Elves, on the other hand, with their tilted eyes and
pointed ears, stood slightly taller than an adult Aleutan, perhaps five foot
five or six for the female, Riatha, with the male, Aravan, a hand or so
higher.
But no matter their height, both Mygga and F├й, they were proud,
like Chieftains, standing erect and walking with purpose and looking you
straight in the eye, as if they owned the world.
And they were dangerous, with weapons of steel and silver and
starlight and crystal:
The Warrows, the Mygga, bore missile weapons: The Myggan
female was armed with two belts of throwing knives crisscrossed over
her torso, five steel blades to a belt, ten steel knives in all; but there was
more, for one belt held a silver bladeтАФyet, strangely, on the other belt
was an empty scabbard where the silver one's mate should have been.
The Myggan male, too, bore a dagger, yet his weapon of choice
seemed to be a sling, and he carried two pouches of bullets at his waist:
one filled with steel spheroids, the other, smaller one with bullets more
precious, bullets of silver.
 On the other hand, the Elves, the F├й, bore weapons suited to close
combat: The F├йan female was girted with a long-knife and with a
splendid sword whose blade glittered like starlight. The F├йan male also
wore a long-knife at his waist, yet the long-knife seemed insignificant
when compared to his black-hafted spear with its marvelous crystal
blade.
But it was not only the features and bearing and stature and
weaponry of the Mygga and the F├й that told the Aleutan these were
folk of legend, for even more telling was that the dogs allowed these
strangers, these strangers, to approach and pet them, ruffle their fur,
fawn over themтАФ even Rak and Kano, feral savages that they were,
even haughty Shlee. The same was true of Ruluk's and Tchuka'sj teams,
with their leads, Laska and Garr, and with their! power dogs, Chenk
and Darga and Kor and Ch├╗n, and with all the others, too. Yipping and
yammering in excitement whenever the F├й and Mygga came near.
Rolling on the! ground. Nuzzling. Bouncing. Dropping down on their
forelegs, inviting play. Savages acting like puppies! Aye, these: were the
folk of legends told by the lore tellers while gathered 'round the fires; of