"Jennifer Fallon - Second Sons 01 - The Lion of Senet" - читать интересную книгу автора (Fallon Jennifer)

“Neris...” she began, feeling helpless to divert the conversation from such a dangerous topic. “You
mustn’t keep blaming yourself...”

“Then who should I blame, Tia?”

“Antonov Latanya,” she replied without hesitating. “And that evil bitch Belagren.”
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Neris smiled. “I wish I was like you, Tia.”

“Why?”

“Because you still have hope. You still believe there’s a chance you can set the world aright. Even Johan
doesn’t believe that anymore. We old men have lost our faith.”

“Faith is for fools,” she scoffed. “Faith is for the idiots who believe what the High Priestess tells them.
Faith is for monsters like the Lion of Senet, a man who murders in the name of the Goddess.”

“Yet you believe that somehow you can make it better. You and Reithan and the other young people
here in Mil. Deep in your hearts, despite a wealth of evidence and experience to the contrary, you all
truly believe that given half a chance, you could make everything better. What’s that, if not blind, foolish
faith?”

Tia bit back the retort that leapt to mind. He was sucking her into his argument. That was the danger
with Neris. He was insane beyond redemption and hopelessly lost to his addiction, but he was still the
smartest man who had ever lived, and it was foolish in the extreme to argue with him.

“Lexie’s making blincakes for breakfast,” she said, deciding to change the subject rather than fight a
losing battle.

“Is she making them the proper way?” he asked, with the sudden eagerness of a child.

“Of course.”

Neris was quite adamant about the recipe for the thick, chewy blincakes that he loved, and would refuse
to eat them if the ingredients weren’t added in exactly the right quantities and exactly the right order.

Unaccountably, his shoulders suddenly slumped, and he hunched over, hugging his thin arms around his
body. “I’m not hungry.”

“But you love Lexie’s blincakes.”

“I love nothing,” Neris corrected miserably.

Tia knew her father too well to be upset by his declaration. She sighed and took a cautious step closer
to him. “Neris...”