"L. J. Smith - Vampire Diaries 04 - Dark Reunion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Lisa J)

"Another mouse?"Elena said, and giggled obscenely.
Bonnie looked down at the half-eaten sandwich she was holding and screamed.
Dangling from one end was a ropy brown tail. She threw it as hard as she could
against a headstone, where it hit with a wet slap. Then she stood, stomach heaving,
scrubbing her fingers frantically against her jeans.
"You can't leave yet. The company is just arriving." Elena's face was changing;
she had already lost her hair, and her skin was turning gray and leathery. Things were
moving in the plate of sandwiches and the freshly dug pits. Bonnie didn't want to see
any of them; she thought she would go mad if she did.
"You're not Elena!" she screamed, and ran.
The wind blew her hair into her eyes and she couldn't see. Her pursuer was
behind her; she could feel it right behind her. Get to the bridge, she thought, and then
she ran into something.
"I've been waiting for you," said the thing in Elena's dress, the gray skeletal thing
with long, twisted teeth. "Listen to me, Bonnie." It held her with terrible strength.
"You're not Elena! You're not Elena!"
"Listen to me, Bonnie!"
It was Elena's voice, Elena's real voice, not obscenely amused nor thick and ugly,
but urgent. It came from somewhere behind Bonnie and it swept through the dream
like a fresh, cold wind. "Bonnie, listen quicklyтАФ"
Things were melting.The bony hands onBonnie's arms, the crawling graveyard,
the rancid hot air. For a moment Elena's voice was clear, but it was broken up like a
bad long-dis-tanceconnection.
"тАж He's twisting things, changing them. I'm not as strong as he isтАж" Bonnie
missed some words. "тАж but this is important. You have to findтАж right now." Her
voice was fading.
"Elena, I can't hear you! Elena!"
"тАж an easy spell, only two ingredients, the ones I told you alreadyтАж"
"Elena!"
Bonnie was still shouting as she sat bolt upright in bed.

Two
"And that's all I remember," Bonnie concluded as she and Meredith walked
downSunflower Street between the rows of tall Victorian houses.
"But it was definitely Elena?"
"Yes, and she was trying to tell me something at the end. But that's the part that
wasn't clear, except that it was important, terribly important. What do you think?"
"Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I
think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll."
Bonnie thought she was probably right. But the dream still bothered her; it had
bothered her all day, enough to put her earlier worries out of her mind. Now, as she
and Meredith approached Caroline's house, the old worries returned with a
vengeance.
She really should have told Meredith about this, she thought, casting an uneasy
sideways glance at the taller girl. She shouldn't let Meredith just walk in there
unpreparedтАж
Meredith looked up at the lighted windows of the Queen Anne House with a sigh.
"Do you reallyneed those earrings tonight?"
"Yes, I do; yes, absolutely."Too late now.Might as well make the best of it.
"You'll love them when you see them," she added, hearing the note of hopeful