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

They should be afraid.



Somewhere in Taglios, every day, a message appears upon a wall,
written in chalk or paint or even animal blood. Just a gentle
reminder: Water Sleeps.



Everyone knows what that means. They whisper it, aware that there
is an enemy out there more restless than running water. An enemy
who will, somehow, someday, lurch forth from the mouth of his
grave and come for those who played at betrayal. They know no
power that can prevent it. They were warned ten thousand times
before they gave in to temptation. No evil can preserve them.



Mogaba is afraid.



Radisha is afraid.



Willow Swan is so afraid he barely functions, like the wizard Smoke
before him, whom he indicted and tormented for his cowardice.
Swan knew the Company of old, in the north, before anyone here
recognized it as more than a dark memory of ancient terror. The
years have seen no calluses form on Swan's fear.



Purohita Drupada is afraid.



Inspector-General Gokhale is afraid.



Only the Protector is not afraid. Soulcatcher fears nothing.
Soulcatcher does not care. She mocks and defies the demon. She
is mad. She will laugh and be entertained while being consumed by
fire.