"Timothy Zahn - Hero of Cartao 1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zahn Timothy)

"Mm," Doriana said, peering into the distance. There was nothing showing
in that direction that he could see. Well camouflaged, either by accident or
by design. That could be useful. "Where does Lord Binalie live?"

"There." Kerseage pointed to the left as he brought the shuttle around in
a wide semicircle. "You see Foulahn City, just south of that kilometer-wide
stretch of grassland?"

"I see it," Doriana said. "I don't think I've ever seen a city come to a
stop that abruptly before. Except where there's a lake or cliff to limit it,
of course."

"It might as well be a cliff," Kerseage grunted. "That particular line of
grassland marks the southern edge of Spaarti land, and no one travels or
builds there. The Cranscoc insist on it. Anyway, you see that big open area on
the northern edge of the city, butting up against the grass strip?"

"Yes," Doriana said. It looked like a park-grassland, quite a few clumps
of trees, large sections of sculpted bushes-with a few small buildings and one
very large one. Even from this distance, the place reeked of wealth and power.
On one of the low hills facing the plant, he could see a pair of figures
standing together. 'The Binalie estate?"

"You got it," Kerseage said. "You seen enough?"

Doriana took a last look around, fixing the geography in his mind.
Foulahn and Navroc Cities lay to the south and southeast of the plant, with
the craggy Red Hills pushing up against the southern ends of both cities. Triv
Spaceport was to the east, with low, increasingly forested rolling hills to
the north, and a small river winding its way between the two cities and then
between Foulahn and the spaceport.


"Yes," he told the pilot, resettling himself in his seat. "Let's go see


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Lord Binalie."

They're turning around some more," Corf Binalie announced, shading his
eyes with his hand as he peered upward into the sky.


"I think they might be coming here."

"Who, the people in the shuttle?" Jafer Tories asked, his white hair
blowing past his cheek as he gazed downward at the ground, trying to pick out