"Cook, Glen - Black Company 09 - Glittering Stone 03 - Water Sleeps" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cook Glen)

During the years of defiance, one unknown hero won Soulcatcher's
eternal hatred by sabotaging the Shadowgate, the sole gateway to
the glittering plain. Soulcatcher was the most powerful sorcerer
alive.

She might have become a Shadowmaster to eclipse those
monsters the Company had pulled down during its earlier wars on
Taglios' behalf. But with the Shadowgate sealed she could not
conjure killer shadows more powerful than the few score she had
controlled when she worked her treachery on the Company.



Oh, she could open the Shadowgate. One time. She did not know
how to close it again, though. Meaning everything inside would be
free to wriggle out and begin tormenting the world.



Meaning that for Soulcatcher, party to so few of the secrets, the
choice must be all or very little. The end of the world or making do.



For the moment she is making do. And pursuing continuous
researches. She is the Protector. Fear of her steeps the empire.
There are no challenges to her terror. But even she knows this age
of dark concord cannot endure.



Water sleeps.



In their homes, in the shadowed alleyways, in the city's ten
thousand temples, nervous whispers never cease. The Year of the
Skulls. The Year of the Skulls. It is an age when no gods die and
those that sleep keep stirring restlessly.



In their homes, in the shadowed alleyways or fields of grain or in
the sodden paddies, in the pastures and forests and tributary
cities, should a comet be seen in the sky or should an
unseasonable storm strew devastation or, particularly, if the earth
should shake, they murmur, "Water sleeps." And they are afraid.