"Simon Hawke - Wizards 08 - Wizard of Lovecraft Cafe" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hawke Simon)

Silver turned to face him. His eyes were glowing with a bright blue fire. Angeio tried to drop the pies and
go for his gun, but not a single muscle in his body would respond. He felt himself suddenly go cold all
over as icy tentacles squirmed into his mind. Inwardly, he screamed, but outwardly, he couldn't make a
sound. He felt a curious, numbing, vertiginous sensation, and then he could no longer see or hear or smell
or feel a thing.



Chapter One

Who was that?" asked Wyrdrune, coming out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee.

"Pizza man," said Kira.

Billy looked up from the computer screen. "You ordered pizza?"

"Well, no," Kira explained, "he delivered to our address by mistake, but said he'd give me half off on two
large pies if I took them anyway, so I figured what the hell. We haven't eaten yet and I was getting kind
of hungry."
Wyrdrune stopped in the center of the room. "He delivered to our address by mistake? To the
penthouse?"

Kira shrugged. "That's what he said. I checked him out. He looked okay, so I buzzed him in."

"That was rather careless, wasn't it?" Billy said, swiveling his chair around.

"He's on his way up right now," said Kira. "Why, you don't suppose—"

The lights suddenly started strobing rapidly.

"Somebody's just set off the spell wards in the stairway," Wyrdrune said.

Billy quickly turned back to the computer. "Archimedes, security check!"

"Working," said the little sentient computer, speaking in a voice that sounded like a chipmunk on helium.
The monitor screen flashed quickly from one remote security camera to another. "Intruders present on
the stairs and in the front lobby," the computer said.

"Shit," said Billy, looking at the screen. "We've got an entire S.W.A.T. team on the stairs, coming up fast,
and the whole lobby's crawling with cops!"

The sound of sirens drifted up from the street.

"I'm sorry," Kira said, looking chagrined. "I thought—"

The elevator door slid open behind her. As she turned, Wyrdrune leapt toward her, shape-changing into
his Modred aspect in the blink of an eye.

"Look out!" Modred shouted, shoving her aside.