"Barbara Hambly - Darwath 3 - The Armies of Daylight" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hambly Barbara)

to meet them. And Lohiro was possessed by the Dark. In a bitter struggle, Ingold
managed to destroy Lohiro.

Ingold sent out a desperate mental summons for any wizards of any degree of
ability. Then he and Rudy began the long struggle back to the Keep.

During their absence, Gil had used her training as a scholar to investigate the old
records, looking for some clue as to how the ancient Dare of Renweth had
defeated the Dark. Together with Minalde, who had a touch of the mysterious
memory of past events that was supposedly inherited by only a few men, she
found the ancient workshops of the wizard-engineers who had built the Keep.
And she found artifacts of all lands, most without apparent use.

When Ingold and Rudy returned, they found a ragtag assembly of wizards, half-
trained witches, and village healers waiting to become the Wizards' Corps under

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them. Ingold realized that the crystals Gil had found were the ancient source of
artificial light. And Rudy seized upon a collection of parts which he assembled
into a flame thrower, a possible weapon against the Dark.

Alwir used the discovery as an excuse to determine that the wizards must spy out
the Nest of the Dark at Gae. Ingold, knowing the folly of the plan but unable to
deter Alwir, began trying to create a cloaking-spell that might protect the
wizards against the Dark.

PART ONE
THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
CHAPTER ONE
The night was still. The wind that had beaten with such violence down the ice-
locked mountains to the north had fallen at about sunset to an uneasy murmuring
in the dark pines that filled the twisting Vale of Renweth. By midnight, even that
had ceased. The black branches hung motionless from one end of the Vale to the
other, slowly furring with frost in the deepening cold. A man's breath, barely
visible in the soulless glimmer of the few remote and haughty stars, would hang
like a diamond cloud about his face or freeze in white hoarfrost to his lips. In
that piercing cold, not even the wolves were abroad; the silence ran from cliff to
lightless cliff, an almost tangible property in that frozen and desolate world.

Yet beneath the dark trees, something had stirred.

Rudy Solis was sure of it. He glanced behind him for the fourth time in as many
minutes, fear creeping along his spine and prickling at the nape of his neck like

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