"K. D. Wentworth - Black On Black" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wentworth K D)

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Riverdale, NY 10471


ISBN: 0-671-57788-3


Cover art by Patrick Turner


First printing, January 1999




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Typeset by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH

Printed in the United States of America



For Clay,
who listened to my stories
long before anyone else
Black/on/Black
"Black/on/black!" All around him, the chant began again, softly at first, then louder, building into a
ear-splitting litany he could not shout down. "Black/on/black!"

Heyoka stared at the people he had crossed a galaxy to find. The fire of fanaticism was written across
their furred faces. He wanted them to stand with him because they understood the danger, not because of
a chance-generated genetic combination that made him resemble an old legend.

But moments before, they had been ready to tear out his throat because he was born of Levv. Now that
they had caught him up high on the wave of their expectations, they were his because he had taken
command in the only way they understood.

A few feet away, Nisk lifted his gaze from the charred form of the priest, speaking to Heyoka with
searing ebony eyes: the Black/on/black was a weapon forged to their own hands. If he would be what
they expected, the Hrinn would follow him and fight the Flek with every life and resource they possessed.
But if he insisted on being merely Heyoka Blackeagle, an outcast Levv male, he would share Levv's, as
well as Anktan's, death.