"Shirley Meier & S. M. Stirling - Fifth Millenium 01 - Shadow's Daughter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Meier Shirley)

much trouble there was at the Gospozhyn's Hall in the Guild.
Since she was busy doing something special she'd have been in
one of the quiet rooms and wouldn't have heard any of it. Megan
thought that if Teik Vyaroslaf Vritaskovych ever smiled his face
would break.

"Good morning, Teik," he said to Lixand. Rosziviy, behind her
papa, stuck her tongue out at Megan. She had pushed Megan
yesterday and almost made her drop her slate. Her brother,
Leonid, had stepped on Megan's foot because his big sister told
him to, but Megan had stuck him with a pin later and he'd
gotten in trouble for yelling in class. Megan smiled to herself,
remembering. They were mean because she was smarter than
they were. She was already in their reading group and Sysbat
Karlovna had said she was quick. Leonid was the littlest in the
class, next to Megan, but she knew her words quicker.

"Good morning, Vyaroslaf. The spring is late this year, is it
not? Study hard, Megan." Papa patted her and she went in the
gate with Rosziviy and Leonid.

"Megan eats worms, baby Megan eats worms!" Leonid
hopped both feet together down the steps in time with his chant.

"She's gotta because her daddy's got lower zight than our
daddy," Rosziviy said, and giggled. "He's gotta be poтАФliтАФite!"

"He does not! I do not! He isn't. He's lots better than your
papa. He's a better weaver 'n anybody! You're lying!" They were
all on the lower stairs by this time, and the other kids had
stopped playing around in the waiting hall and stood around
watching.

"I'm telling!" Rosziviy said. "I'm not a liar!"

"Eats worms," Leonid squealed and jumped down from the
bottom step onto the floor. Megan jumped on him and the other
kids gathered around them. He fell down and didn't fight back,
just yelling, "TEACHER!"

Megan was picked off him by her tunic and shaken. "Megan!"
It was Sysbat Karlovna, frowning. "Fighting? I'm disappointed."
Leonid was sitting on the steps blubbering, even though he was
bigger than Megan and last week had blackened her eye in a
fight outside the school.

"He's just trying to get me in trouble! HeтАж he saidтАФ"

"He didn't say anything, Sysbat." Rosziviy's best friend
Danacia interrupted. "She just hit him." Rosziviy was