"Jack Vance - The Loom of Darkness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vance Jack)

,watch now, and remember what you see." Liane pulled the ring over his head, dropped it to his feet,
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lifted it back. He looked up to the Twk-man, who was chewing a leaf. "And what did you see?"

"I saw Liane vanish from mortal sightтАФexcept for the red curled toes of his sandals. All else was as air."

"FIa!" cried Liane' "Think of it! Have you ever seen the like?"

The Twk.man asked carelessly, "Do you have salt? I would have salt."

Liane cut his exultations short, eyed the Twk-man closely '

'\Mhat news do you bring me?"

,Three erbs killed FloreJin the Dream-builder, and burst all his bubbles. The air above the manse was
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colored for many minutes with the flitting fragments."

'A gram."

"Lord Kandive the Golden has built a barge of carven mo'wood ten lengths high, and it floats on the
River Scaum for the Regatta, full of treasure."

"Two grams."

'A golden witch named Lith has come to live on Thamber Meadow She is quiet and very beautiful ' "

"Three grams."

,Enougf,,', said the Twk-man, and leaned forward to watch while Liane *.-gn.a out the salt in a tiny
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balance. He packed it in small panniers ianging on each side of the ribbed thorax, then nadtched ih. insect
into ttre air and flicked off through the forest vaults.

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once more Liane tried his bronze ring, and this time brought it entirely past his feet, stepped out of it and
brought the ring up into the darkness beside him. what a wonderful "sanctuaryi e not" whose opening
could be hidden inside the hole itself'! 6own with the ring to his feet, step through, bring it up his slender
frame and over his shoulders, out into the forest with a small bronze ring in his hand.

Ho! and off to Thamber Meadow to see the beautiful golden witch.

Her hut was a simple affair of woven reedsтАФa low dome with nvo round windows and a low door. He