"Dave Duncan - A Man Of His Word 2 - Faery Lands Forlorn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Duncan Dave)

Muscles, you stay! I'm not done with you. " Her eyes had not wandered
from Inos's face; she had spoken to Azak without looking at him. "Men
keep their brains between their legs. Don't you know that yet, child?"

"Not Rap! "

"Yes, Rap. " She considered Inos slyly for a moment. "Maybe I will fetch
him for you! I could show you his real colors."

"Don't believe her!" Azak shouted from the door. "She can inflame any
man to madness!"

Rasha raised her eyes to glare at him. She did not seem to do anything
more, but the young giant screamed, clutched his belly, and fell
writhing on the floor.

"Brute! " Rasha muttered, then went back to studying Inos. Azak was
thrashing and whimpering. Inos had heard tales of animals caught in
traps trying to chew off their own paws ... why was she thinking of such
stories at a time like this? Appalled as much by the sorceress's casual
indifference as by the barbarity itself, she fought in vain for words.

"No," the sultana said. "They're all after the same thing, and nothing
else."

"Not Rap! "

Rasha seemed to grow taller, and her eyes redder. "You think so? What do


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you know of life, Little Palace Flower?"

"Enough!" Inos shouted. "I was about to be married to a man I loved and
I saw him transformed into a monster!"

"Inos!" Kade said sharply.

"At twelve I was sold to a monster. He was old. He oozed."

"I watched my father die! "

"When I was younger than you I watched my babies die!"

"I crossed the taiga in winter!"

"I was cook on a fishing boat for five men. Can you guess what that was
like, Butterfly?"