"Patricia C. Wrede - Enchanted Forest 1 - Talking to Dragons" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wrede Patricia C)

"Oh dear me my gracious goodness my oh," he squeaked.
"Do you know what this is?"

"I wouldn't have asked you if I knew," I said. "It's a
sword; I think it's magic."



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"It's a sword! He thinks it's magic!" Suz ran around
twice in a small circle, then did the tail-balancing trick
again. "Where did you get it?" the little lizard demanded.

"My mother gave it to me; she got it out of the Enchanted
Forest somewhere," I said. I was getting a little tired of
this. "Are you going to answer my question?"

"Your mother gave it to you. The Sword of the Sleeping
King, that everyone in the world has been looking for for
fifteen or twenty years, and your mother gave it to you."
The lizard got so agitated he fell over again. "That isn't
right. That isn't reasonable. My dear boy, that simply isn't
done! Even in the Enchanted Forest there is a proper order
for these things! Someone will have to notify Kazul im-
mediately. Oh, dear, what a stir this will cause!"

"I'm sorry; I didn't know. What's the Sword of the Sleep-
ing King?" I'd never heard of it before, which rather sur-

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prised me. After Mother made me memorize all those pages
of names and titles and peculiar weapons, I'd thought I
knew the name of every magic sword in the world. It sur-
prised Suz, too.

"You don't know?" The lizard froze in the middle of
getting back up on his tail. He looked like a golden pretzel.
"No, you don't! Oh, my. You'd better go to the castle at
once. Kazul will know what to do with you. I'd better go
there myself, right away." Suz untwisted and darted off into
the undergrowth.

"Wait!" I shouted. "What castle? Who is Kazul? And
whyтАФ"

The lizard looked back. "I don't have time for that! And