"Eddings, David - Mallorean 5 - The Seeress of Kell" - читать интересную книгу автора (Eddings David)

CHAPTER TWO

It was a Grolim. The huge beast lying in the bloodstained snow blurred and changed even as Garion's friends moved m with their weapons ready to deliver the last fatal strokes.

"Wait!" Durnik said sharply. "It's a man!" They stopped, staring at the dreadfully wounded priest Ivine in the snow J &

Garion bleakly set the point of his sword under the Grolim's chin. He was terribly angry. "All right," he said in a cold voice, Ttfk—and I think you'd better be very convincing. Who out you up to this?" e F

"It was Naradas," the Grolirn groaned, "archpriest of the tenpleatHemil."

"The henchman of Zandramas?" Garion demanded. "The «ne with white eyes?"

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SEERESS OF KELL

KELL

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"Yes. I was only doing what he commanded. Please don't

kill me."

"Why did he tell you to attack us?"

"I was supposed to kill one of you."

"Which one?"

"He didn't care. He just said to make sure that one of you

died."

"They're still playing that tired old game," Silk noted, sheathing his daggers. "Grolims are so unimaginative."

Sadi looked inquiringly at Garion, holding up his slim little knife suggestively.

"No!" Eriond said sharply.

Garion hesitated. "He's right, Sadi," he said finally. "We can't just kill him in cold blood."

"Alorns." Sadi sighed, rolling his eyes up toward the clearing sky. "You do know, of course, that if we leave him here in this condition, he'll die anyway. And if we try to take him along, he'll delay us—not to mention the fact that he's hardly the sort to be trusted."

"Eriond," Garion said, "why don't you go get Aunt Pol? We'd better get those wounds of his tended before he bleeds to death." He looked at Belgarath, who had changed form again. "Any objections?" he asked.

"I didn't say anything."

"I appreciate that."