"Cook, Glen - Black Company 07 - Glittering Stone 01 - Bleak Seasons" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cook Glen)

Chapter 1





. . . fragments . . .

. . . just blackened fragments, crumbling between my fingers.

Browned page corners that reveal half a dozen words in a crabbed
hand, their

context no longer known.

All that remains of two volumes of the Annals. A thousand hours of
labor. Four

years of history. Gone forever.

Or are they? I do not want to go back. I do not want to relive the
horror. I do

not want to reclaim the pain. There is pain too deep to withstand
right here,

right now. There is no way to recapture the totality of that
awfulness, anyway.

The mind and heart, safely over to the farther shore, simply refuse
to encompass

the enormity of the voyage.

And there is no time. There is a war on.

Always there is a war on.

Uncle Doj wants something. Just as well to stop now. Teardrops
make the ink run.

He is going to make me drink some strange philtre.

Fragments . . .

. . . all around, fragments of my work, my life, my love and my pain,
scattered

in this bleak season . . .