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

"How should the kingdom manage?" Puck breamed, for Gramarye had many
enemies that only the High Warlock and his wife kept at bay.

"And howтАФhow canst thou say it?" Geoffrey threw up his hands in
exasperation. "How canst thou stand there with so bland a face, cheerfully
consigning thy mother and father to who knows what fate?"

"Nay!" Big brother Magnus instantly clapped an arm around Gregory and
pressed him against his side. "Be not so cruel to thine own brother! Belike he's as
frighted as thouтАж "

"I am never frighted!"

"Alarmed, then, " Magnus said between his teeth. "As alarmed as thou, yet
brave enough not to show it. "

"Yet I am not alarmed, neither. " Gregory looked up at his brother. "Nor am I
frightedтАФfor they have been gone aforetime, have they not? And ever they've
returned. "

They all stilled, staring at him. Then Magnus said carefully, "Thou dost
remember that?"

"Thou wast but a babe!" Cordelia burst out. "Aged scarce half a year! Nay,
hardly do I recall that, myself!"

"Nor doI. " Gregory shook his head, wide-eyed. "I have only some odd
feeling that 'tis so. "

"A memory, but one that lies so deeply he doth ken it not, " Puck explained.
"Yet 'tis so, ladтАФthy parents did vanish, and thy brothers and sister with them. "
 What he did not say was that it had been baby Gregory who had anchored
his family to Gramarye. They had been whisked away to another world, a land of
magic, and had only been able to return because Gregory's infant mind, longing for
his mother, had reached out through the emptiness between the worlds to pull them
backтАФwith a power amazing in any person, let alone a baby.

"They did vanish, and they did return. " Gregory smiled.

He didn't smile often. His brothers and sister found them-

selves smiling too, even though they were nowhere nearly as certain as he
was. In fact, when they stopped to think about it, a feeling of dread began to seep
through them.

Geoffrey couldn't allow that. "Out upon them!" he cried. "Seek and find!"

Magnus and Cordelia cheered, and dashed for the door.