"Jack Vance - The Gray Prince" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vance Jack)

тАЬWhat of Kelse? What of your father?тАЭ

тАЬWhy should they mind? Guests are always welcome at Morningswake.тАЭ

Elvo Glissam reflected a moment. тАЬWhen do you leave?тАЭ

тАЬFirst thing in the morning. We fly with Gerd Jemasze to Galigong, at the edge of the Retent; there my
father meets us. Tomorrow at sunset weтАЩll be at Morningswake.тАЭ

тАЬYour brother might consider me forward.тАЭ

тАЬOf course not! Why should he?тАЭ

тАЬVery well then. IтАЩll be more than happy to accept. In fact IтАЩm tremendously excited.тАЭ Elvo Glissam
straightened up from the balustrade. тАЬIn which case IтАЩll now have to leave this party, to pack some clothes
and change some arrangements. And IтАЩll meet you at your hotel early tomorrow morning.тАЭ

Schaine held out her hand. тАЬGoodby till then.тАЭ

Elvo Glissam bent his head and kissed her fingers. тАЬGood night.тАЭ He turned and walked away. Schaine
watched him go with a half-smile on her face and a soft warm pressure in her throat.

She followed Elvo inside and wandered from room to room until, in that chamber which Valtrina called
the kachemba, after the sacred places of the Uldras, she found Kelse and Gerd Jemasze debating the


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authenticity of ValtrinaтАЩs antique fetishes.

Kelse picked up a blasphemy mask*and raised it to his face. тАЬI can smell gabbhout smoke, and thereтАЩs a
smear of what looks like dilf by the nostril holes.тАЭ

Schaine chuckled. тАЬI wonder how many masks in how many kachembas look like you two.тАЭ

тАЬNo doubt several of both,тАЭ said Gerd. тАЬOur Faz arenтАЩt as docile as your Aos. Last year on the Kaneel
Broads I looked into a kachemba. Sure enough, they built it to represent Suaniset.тАЭ

тАЬWhat about masks?тАЭ

тАЬJust two: me and my father. My fatherтАЩs mask wore a red cap. Mission accomplished.тАЭ

Two years before a letter from Kelse had apprised Schaine of the murder of Palo Jemasze, GerdтАЩs father,
through the instrumentality of an Uldra sky-shark.

тАЬThe tutelar in this case flying a sky-shark,тАЭ Kelse observed.

Jemasze gave a curt nod. тАЬOnce or twice a week I take up my Dacy and go hunting. No luck, so far.тАЭ