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

"I am, " Puck snapped. "Now sleep!" And he slammed the door.

The boys were still as mice for three minutes.

Then Geoffrey whispered, "Dost thou think he might trulyтАж "

The door crashed open, and Puck boomed, "Sleep!"

They slept.

When they came down to breakfast the next morning, they found a very
worried-looking Puck sitting by the hearth, knuckling his chin. They gathered around
him, wide-eyed and silent. Finally, Magnus asked, "Have they not come home,
then?"

Puck dismissed the notion with a gesture. "'Tis naught. Belike they'll step in
the door ere the sun's up. "

Gregory darted a quick glance at the window. "'Tis risen, PuckтАФand thou
knowest not where they be. "

"Not know!?!!" Puck sat up straight, glaring in indignation. "Whence cometh
such a thought?"

Gregory shook his head. "An thou didst know, thy face would not show
such concern. "

"Thou seest too quickly for my liking. "

"Or mine, " Gregory agreed, "for if thou knowest not where they be, they are
gone. "

"What?"

"Nay!"

"What sayest thou!" his brothers and sister cried.
 But Gregory only shook his head. "If the Wee Folk know not where our
parents be, they be not within thisLandofGramarye . "

"Why, how dost thou riddle that?" Puck studied the boy's face.

Gregory shrugged. " 'tis plainly seenтАФfor what one of the Wee Folk know,
all will know presently. And naught doth happen that they know not of, for there are
pixies, elves, and fairies throughout the length and breadth of this kingdom, so that
there lies not a square yard of ground in all our Isle of Gramarye that the Wee Folk
see not. Thus if thou dost not know where our parents be, they be not in this land. "

"But they cannot be gone!" Cordelia cried. "How should we manage without
them?"