Ladai blinked sleepily. Dorana yawned and from time to time began to look at the wall with empty eyes. Then she caught herself and tried to seem interested. Liiran struggled to concentrate, but it was not working well. Sleepy thoughts strove to fly away into distant distances and intertwine with creeping sleep.But Khiyat was disgustingly cheerful and talkative. To explain what exactly he needs, he began from afar, from where children come from and how they are obtained. Sometimes he lost his thoughts and for some reason began to talk about the fact that it is still unrealistic to find these old crimes in the bottomless memory of the city. But what is happening now, the city knows very well. And by the evening it will be possible to trace the entire chain of those who are somehow involved in the attempt to kill that stupid fireman. The listeners did not even try to understand what kind of fireman they were talking about.“You found the descendants of the keepers,” Ladai finally unders
Dean was pale, displeased and frightened everyone with a brutal expression on his face. At times, when the ship fell down from the top of a particularly high wave, the fireman would turn green, his face would become miserable, and he would rush headlong to the side. Where he parted with the next portion of the contents of the stomach.Dean was persuaded for a long time and tediously to go to the cabin and lie down. They called him an idiot for even longer, because only an idiot, who is already swayed, on the eve of sailing, will go and get drunk, if not to green mice, then to white mice for sure. This is how he set himself up for the trip.In the end, after all the persuasion and scolding, Dean continued to hang proudly on the deck and tried his best to spoil everyone's mood. As a result, he achieved the fact that at some point they stopped paying attention to him and went about their business.Marika at the side admired the sea and turned her nose to the sun, which she smeared with c
“You can exclude your Silence,” Toen said and yawned widely. — I know where her grandfather took a wife for his son.- Where?- In the same school for orphans, where I studied after the death of my parents. I realized what kind of grandfather, I met a couple of times in the city. And he asked me very much not to tell anyone that he came to that school to choose a gifted girl. He wanted to renew his blood, to add magical talents to his family.— Threatened? Atana asked.- Not without it. And your mother, Tisha, was the great-granddaughter of a teacher at that school. When the grandmother died of old age, the girl stayed at school. Until this man appeared, she sat without getting out, even with other children she didn’t really communicate. She thought she deserved more. However, she got more than that.“Yes, I did,” Atana confirmed. - And she lived happily ever after, until she decided to go boating in a storm. Together with the youngest son of her husband.Toen took a sip from his cup,
Flights and examsDarine Atana thought for a long time, but did not manage to come up with anything better than to send the same Taladat to Dorana's relatives. He even had a reason to visit. Here the person wanted to get acquainted with relatives of the girl of the pupil. Yes, just in case.Taladat did not want to get acquainted with any relatives, but he was faced with the fact that there was no one but him. Toen is now sharply interested. Behind him, almost in droves, are various suspicious personalities and pretty girls. If he goes to visit someone, these people will also be sharply interested. Atana herself, however, could not come up with a clear reason for calling Tols and Eina to her office. And calling them somewhere else would again be suspicious. Okay, if only Eina, the fact that she is even weak, but a prophetess, is not such a big secret. However, the fact that Tolsa is fond of rituals is also easy to find out. The same Teika will gladly tell everyone who wants to listen t
Failed to get drunk.Kalar was just finishing his second beer, and Khiyat was dozing over the remnants of the first, as if some unfamiliar uncle appeared in the pub where the company was sitting, cursed the owner for no reason and ordered the applicants for silver chains to get out. Dean, already angry for no reason at all, answered the uncle's claims, and they quarreled merrily until the guards came and kicked everyone out of the establishment, including the owner. On the street it turned out that the owner of the piteyny was an idiot and was breaking someone's plans. The guards are still big idiots, because they did not recognize their native authorities, who the guests of the city generally considered to be some kind of extraneous uncle, climbing into their own affairs.On the other hand, the commanders of the guards called the group of Liiran Vue almost geniuses and began to assure that they would definitely receive the chains. These assurances shocked even Kalar, and Dean looked
Atana listened to Darine's report very attentively. So attentively, without interrupting or even asking again, that Taladat very soon suspected some kind of trick.“Why didn’t you tell me about fortune-telling right away?” she finally asked the question when Toen finished his story.“They wanted to check, search,” he said, somehow not very confidently, and smiled sadly. Looks like I know what you're going to say now.— Goonies! she said eagerly. "Why are you even looking for someone?" More precisely, why do you need such a complicated and dangerous way to look for someone whom I can point a finger at without spending a moment on reflection ?!- Can? Taladat was genuinely surprised.- Do you seriously think that in our city there are many relatives of your ward, whose mother died, father is unknown, uncle sits on the council, and they themselves run away from responsibility? Or do you think these relatives have many children who have thrown themselves under the wing of their grandmothe
Neti Larka was pretty, considered talented and was sure that she was smart and charming. And everything would have been just fine, but, unfortunately, she was unlucky too often. And now, instead of being in the same trio with someone worthy of her person, she discovered the fool Aika Vila and some strange guy. Aika generally seemed to be chasing her. Last time they were also in the same trio and Neti did not receive the chain due to the fact that she spent most of her time arguing with this fool. And how not to argue with her if she does not understand elementary things? For example, the fact that someone smart should be in command, and not a loud-mouthed girl who skipped half the lessons at school. To be honest, Neti did not understand at all how Aika could be allowed to take the exam. What if she gets a chain? Because of some stupid accident. Then there will be no trouble with her at all.“The main thing is not to waste time arguing again,” Neti muttered and looked at the guy.He st
On an island surrounded by rocks sticking out of the water, like those very dragon fangs, Taladat got with the help of a portal stone. To be honest, he was afraid to the last that Toen, who was gnawing his pipe, had calculated something incorrectly, made a mistake somewhere, and the portal would not open to an island at all. At best, in the open sea. At worst, in a cluster of rocks, from which, according to rumors, it is generally impossible to get out. But I had to take the risk. And, oddly enough, it was worth it. Some bad person set up a whole warehouse on the island, building a wooden hut and protecting it from all possible and impossible dangers, including time. And another bad, but obviously talented person managed to crack the protection against penetration and not bring down all the others. He also hung a signal above the door, which Taladat fiddled with for a very long time before he forced her to ignore him.“Deeds,” Taladath said, once inside the building.No, these were no