"Patrick Tilley - Amtrak 3 - Iron Master" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tilley Patrick)

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to protect him and ensure their safe return.

Cadillac bit his lip, choosing not to speak of what he had seen in the
stones- that the bond between Clearwater and himself had been broken.

Despite the outward pretence, she was no longer his soul-mate. Her
thoughts and earth-longings were now centred on the cloud warrior; the
Death-Bringer who was fated to return and carry her away on a river of
blood.

The blood of the Plainfolk.

At the time when Cadillac had drawn this knowledge from the stones, he
had also seen the place where Mr Snow would give up his life so that
he, Cadillac, might be saved. In his grief he had shed bitter tears,
cursing the gift of seership, and he had silently vowed never to pick
up a seeing-stone again. The Wheel turned, the Path was drawn. If
nothing could be changed then it was better not to lift the Veil. Let
the future hold its secret sorrows; the




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pain of the present was burden
enough.

In the days that followed, as he lengthened the slim fuselage pod and
fitted a second seat behind his own, Cadillac tried to come to terms
with what had happened.

Standing on the bluff with Clearwater and Mr Snow, watching the cloud
warrior rise on the freshening wind and turn over the hills towards the
south, he had decided there would be no accusations, no
recriminations.

The true warrior did not allow himself to be deflected by such unworthy
emotions as envy or jealousy. But Cadillac had only just begun to take
the first few faltering steps along The Way and had not yet attained
the necessary degree of philosophical detachment.

Clearwater's infatuation with the cloud warrior had hurt him deeply.

Already persuaded by his own inner demons that he lacked standing, he