"Nancy Springer - Isle 05 - The Golden Swan" - читать интересную книгу автора (Springer Nancy)

FRAINтАФjust try it one sound at a time. FRтАФ"

Stop it! Sudden, surprising anger snapped through me and I roared aloud,Let me done, I am of no use, I
am fate's fool, a freak тАФThe few servants within hearing fled in panic at the noise I was making, but
Trevyn hugged me. I stopped my ranting, laid my head on his shoulder and groaned.

"I am sorry," he said. "I won't badger you anymore."It is not you. The castlefolk talk in front of me as if
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Iam too stupid to understand them. They can me wood-wouse, wild man. I make such an oaf of a
human .

"They are frightened," said Trevyn, and he stepped back a little, eyeing me with a smile. "You are rather
awesome, you know. Face of the god of the wild thingsтАФ I have seen gods, rememberтАФand strength
enough for any two men, and grace coming to you already, grace learned from no humanтАж"

Some of the maids beckon at me, as if I were meat for their tasting. Then they laugh at me when I refuse
them. I wish I wereтАФI could not say I wished I were dead, though it had a fine ring to it, for it was not
true. The Old Language speaks from the heart. It cannot say untruth.

"You wish you were a wolf again?"

There spoke Trevyn True King. He would not flinch from whatever was. I faced him with blinking eyes.

Yes. That is part of it. But the worst of it isтАФI forced myself onward, floundering after the sour scent of
truthтАФFrain. He does not like me any better than the others do .

"He is frightened, too," said Trevyn.

But why? I had expected better of him, somehow.

"The essence of you, the wildness, I think. Because you remind him of somethingтАФor because he is
frightened of things within himself."

Ihad thought he would be courageous , I complained.

"He is, he is very courageous! Look at how far he has come. And there is nothing more fearsome than
what he is facing."

I did not understand. But Trevyn spoke as one who knew.

"Perhaps he will, learn a different sort of valor from you," Trevyn added. "Perhaps that is what he has
come here for, to learn from you."

How? I burst out. Icannot talk to him, I can't read or write, even. Any dog could serve him better.
Mother of mercy, what am I to do? He will not want me тАФ