"Christopher Stasheff - Warlock 07 - The Warlock is Missing" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stasheff Christopher)

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"Or mayhap an army of monsters hath come out of the forests!" Geoffrey
grinned. He liked armies. Monsters, too.

"Or mayhap ghosts have come haunting the castle, " Magnus cried.

"Or mayhap, " rumbled a deep voice from the doorway, "the witch and the
warlock are so pleased by themselves, with no children to pester them, that they
have stayed longer man they had planned, amidst the flowers and the cool forest air
тАФ and mayhap four naughty children have kept themselves waking when they should
have fallen asleep!"

The boys dived under their covers, and Cordelia dived under Magnus's bed.

Their foot-and-a-half babysitter strode into the room. "Shame upon thee,
then! Can thy parents not enjoy a single evening to themselves, but thou must needs
bedevil them with thy guessing, even though they be not here?"

"We were not thinkingat them, Puck, " Geoffrey protested. All four of the
children were mind-readers, who could also put their own thoughts into other
people's minds.

"Nay, " said Puck, "but thou wast biding in wakefulness, belike to spring out
upon them when they did return. "

"We would do no such thing, " Magnus said indignantly. After all, he'd only
been toying with the idea.

"Be certain thou wilt not, " Puck assured him. "Now lie still and close thine
eyesтАФand thy mouths also! Or I shall close them for thee!"

The boys instantly squeezed their eyes shut. They remembered the last time
Geoffrey had talked back to Puck. It had

taken Mama an hour to figure out how to get the padlock off his tips.

"And thou, damsel! To thy chamber!" Puck stabbed his finger toward the
doorway.

The room was silent for a moment; then Cordelia rolled out from under
Magnus's bed and sprang to her feet. "Thou spoilsport, Robin!" And she flounced
out of the room.

Puck gazed after her as though he were considering how she'd look with
goggle eyes and webbed feet; but he must have decided against it, for he turned
back to rumble, "Sleep! Or the hobgoblin will catch thee!"

"What, " said Magnus, "is the hobgoblin?"