"Patrick Tilley - Amtrak 5 - Death - Bringer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Tilley Patrick)

In time, Cadillac would get over it. It was he who had seen their
separation in the stones. Clearwater was destined to journey into the
dark world of the sand-burrowers that lay beneath the deserts of the
south.

Home of the iron-snakes that crawled through the land leaving a trail
of devastation behind them, and the arrowheads which carried the
cloud-warriors across the skies.

Warriors armed with long sharp iron and fire-seeds which erupted into
smoke and flame with the sound of earth-thunder.

Not the pure flame that swept the tree-spirits up towards the heavens
but an evil cousin conjured up by the sand-burrowers. A flame whose
thirst could not be quenched by water, that clung to flesh and burned
through to the bone.

Yes, these were dark days. The time known as The Great Dying had
come.

A time when the courage of the Plainfolk would be sorely tested.

Mo-Town, the Great Sky-Mother had withdrawn into the Black Tower of
Tamla to weep for her people. Many would perish but the Plainfolk
would survive and become a great nation under the banner of Talisman.

As a Mute, a revered sage and walking history book of the Clan m'call,
Mr Snow knew that the journey through the Valley of Death had to be
undertaken with as much good grace as one could muster. The Wheel
turned, The Path was drawn. Human beings could not change their
destiny; it was the hubris of the unenlightened that fostered the cruel
illusion they could do so.

But meanwhile, three of the principal players were missing. Where in
the name of Talisman were they? In a few days, the clan's trade
delegation would be ready to leave for the annual gathering on the
shores of the Great River. Mr Snow had two choices: to go with them,
or stay behind. And the cloud-warrior had two ways to return with
Cadillac and Clearwater: by smuggling themselves aboard one of the
giant wheel-boats due to travel along the Great River to the trading
post, or by a more direct, overland route through the territory that
had once belonged to the Io-Wa and Ne-Braska.

A year ago, Brickman had stolen aboard one of the wheel-boats at the
trading post and had been carried away to the Fire-Pits of Beth-Lem.



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