"David Wingrove & Rand Miller - Myst 01 - The Book of Ti'ana" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wingrove David)

while his eyes were pale but keen. Intelligent, observant eyes.

He passed on, through the crew quarters-the empty bunks stacked three to a
side
into the curve of the ship's walls, eighteen bunks in all-and, passing
through
yet another bulkhead, into the refectory.

Master Jerahl, the ship's cook, looked up from where he was preparing
the
evening meal and smiled.

"Ah, Aitrus. Working late again?"

"Yes, Guild Master."

Jerahl grinned paternally. "Knowing you, you'll be so engrossed in
some
experiment, you'll miss your supper. You want me to bring you
something
through?"

"Thank you, Guild Master. That would be most welcome."

"Not at all, Aitrus. It's good to see such keenness in a young guildsman.
I
won't say it to their faces, but some of your fellows think it's enough to
carry
out the letter of their instructions and no more. But people notice
such
things."

Aitrus smiled.

"Oh, some find me-foolish, Aitrus, I know. It's hard not to overhear things on
a
tiny ship like this. But I was not always a cook. Or, should I say, only a
cook.
I trained much as you train now, to be a Surveyor-to know the ways of the
rock.
And much of what I learned remains embedded here in my head. But I
wasn't
suited. Or, should I say, I found myself better suited to this occupation."

"You trained, Master Jerahl?"

"Of course, Aitrus. You think they would allow me on an expedition like this
if
I were not a skilled geologist?" Jerahl grinned. "Why, I spent close on
twenty