"David Eddings - The Dreamers 01 - The Elder gods" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

‘Since you don’t sleep, you wouldn’t know about the strange things I
seem to see happening while ‘I’m sleep, would you?’
‘They’re called “dreams”, Eleria,’ Zelana told her, ‘and I don’t think
any other creature has the same kind of dreams you do. My brother
Dahlaine told me that your dreams would be very special, and much more
important than the dreams of the ordinaries. Did you have a dream last
night that frightened you?’
‘It didn’t particularly frighten me, Beloved. It just seemed very strange,
for some reason.’
‘Why don’t you tell me about it?’ Zelana suggested.
‘Well, I seemed to be floating - except that I wasn’t floating in Mother
Sea the way I do sometimes when I want to rest and catch my breath. I
was floating way up in the air instead, and all sorts of strange things were
happening far below. Father Earth seemed to be all on fire, and his
mountains were rising and falling the way Mother Sea’s waves do. Rocks
were melting and running down the sides of some of Father Earth’s
mountains into Mother Sea, and some of his other mountains were
spouting liquid fire way up into the sky. Could something like that really
happen?’
‘Yes, child,’ Zelana said in a troubled voice, ‘and it happened in
exactly the way you just described it. I was there watching while it
happened. It was at the very beginning of the world. What happened
next?’
 ‘Well, the fires kept burning for a long, long time, and then the land
below me started to break apart, and the pieces floated off in different
directions. Then trees began to sprout on the face of Father Earth, and
Mother Sea started having children. It was about then that I seemed to
know that I wasn’t alone. Others were having the same dream - only
maybe for them it wasn’t really a dream.’
Zelana smiled. ‘No, dear, it wasn’t. I was one of those others, and I
certainly wasn’t dreaming, and neither were my brothers or my sister.’
‘Then it was your family that was sort of hiding around the edges of
my dream?’ Eleria asked. ‘I thought you only had two brothers and one
sister. There seemed to be two more brothers and a sister watching with
me.’
‘They’re another branch of the family, Eleria,’ Zelana told her. ‘We
don’t get together very often. We can talk about them some other time.
Why don’t you tell me what happened next in your dream. Dreams fade, I
guess, and I’d like to hear your whole dream before you forget.’
‘Well, most of Mother Sea’s children were fish, but some of them
weren’t. Those were the ones who crawled up onto the face of Father
Earth. They looked like snakes at first, but then they sprouted legs and
they grew up to be very big. Some of them ate trees, but some of the
others ate the ones who were eating trees. Then a great big rock that was
on fire fell down out of the sky, and when it hit Father Earth it made an
awful splash, except that it was rock that splashed instead of water, and
everything got dark for a long time. It finally started to get light again,
but the snakes with legs weren’t there any more.’
‘Did my relatives go away, too?’
‘Some of them went to sleep, but they woke up after a while, and the