"Ann Durand - Flight of the Gryphon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Durand Ann)

understand it herself. This was her sister, her identical twin. Adrella would never harm her…would she?

She motioned for Mikolen to follow her into the trees, and he let go of her reins. They ducked back into
the dark forest and turned the hosdels around to watch Adrella, who was sitting with the horn poised at
her lips, her neck stretched forward, listening intently. Katera felt an overwhelming sadness. Something
was terribly wrong. Her Lan Ma Ke had glowed in warmth all of her life around Adrella, and this abrupt
change could only mean one thing. Adrella was in some kind of distress…and she was deeply frightened.
She…they were in danger. Katera turned to Mikolen.

"Can you get the Voice out of her here…right now?"

Mikolen shifted on his hoshdel. "Yes, but it won't be easy. Askinadon is listening to her as much as
possible. Whatever she's doing, he put her up to this, and if she sees you and transmits the thought to
Askinadon before I can get the Orb out, it'll be the end for all of us. He knows where she is. The VisiOrb
transmits her location with directional coordinates."

Katera wrinkled her brow. She didn't know what directional coordinates were, but she understood the
problem.

"What do you think we should do?" she asked. Mikolen glanced at Adrella, then reached around to his
saddlebag and drew out a blanket. "Why did you pack a blanket?"

"You have one in yours as well," he answered. Katera stole a glance at the bags looped over her
hoshdel's haunches. They looked stuffed. "I had plans for us to trek over the northern Shirkas and out of
Parallon." Mikolen sighed, as if he wished they had stuck to the plan. "There's also a good supply of
dried food and water should you get hungry or thirsty."

Katera cocked her head to study Mikolen. She'd already been a whole lot of trouble for him, but he
hadn't complained. "Thank you, Mikolen…for everything."

She watched his eyes soften. "It's okay, Katera."

The way he said her name made her blush, and she turned away. "What should we do?" she asked again,
gazing at Adrella.

"Sooner or later, she'll leave this area, and then we can follow her. This is too close to the caves, and
Askinadon will come to the last place the VisiOrb transmits its signals. We don't want to attract him to
this spot. Once she's far enough away, we'll toss the blanket over her head. Then, I'll administer a shot of
sleeping medication that I use to drop a kiddik now and then. That'll put her out for awhile."

"Sleeping medication?"

"Yeah. It will put her to sleep for a short time. Enough for me to remove the Orb and get her back to the
caves."

Katera considered it. It was a good plan…and it could work, if only Adrella would leave Kiddik
Meadow. As it turned out, she took another two hours meandering around below them, puffing into her
horn every few minutes. Finally, she headed out to the far end of the meadow and the northeastern edge
of the Tikon Forest. Mikolen and Katera followed her progress from the top of the ridge, staying just out
of sight. As soon as Adrella disappeared into the forest, they snaked down from the hill and into the