"Elizabeth Haydon - Rhapsody 1 - Rhapsody, Child of Blood" - читать интересную книгу автора (Haydon Elizabeth)

sky, and sheltered beneath it, He ascends there only in his ending, becoming part of the stars.

Blood gives new beginning, Earth gives sustenance, The Sky gives dreams in life—eternity in
death. Thus shall the Three be, one to the other.



THE PROPHECY OF THE UNINVITED GUEST

Among the last to leave, among the first to come,

Seeking a new host, uninvited, in a new place.

The power gained being the first,

Was lost in being the last.

Hosts shall nurture it, unknowing,

Like the guest wreathed in smiles

While secretly poisoning the larder.

Jealously guarded of its own power,

Ne'er has, nor ever shall its host bear or sire children,

Yet ever it seeks to procreate.



He modified the miniature bristle. Finally satisfied, he meticulously dabbed the liquid onto the eyes of the
boy in the now-frozen image and waited to see that the solution had spread across the sapphire-blue
irises to the corners of each canthus. The window of opportunity would be small and final; it was
important that the boy be given every chance to see things clearly and quickly. When he was done he
recorked the phial and set it back on the gleaming disk.

Meridion removed the spool from the Time Editor and replaced it with a different one, another Past,
even older. This he spun out with even more care, owing to its extreme age and the nature of the place
from which it had come, now vanished beneath the waves. It took a great deal longer to find the right
point on this thread, but Meridion was patient. It was important to do this correctly; much depended on
it.

When he finally found the right place he stopped the frame again and picked up a different tool. With
a practiced hand he made a smooth, circular slice, plucked the image from the first strand, and placed it
gently into the second. He looked through the lens to check his work.

The boy had not lost consciousness, as he had expected, but instead lay writhing facedown on the
ground with his head cradled in his hands, frantically rubbing his eyes. Meridion was both amused and
sorry.I should have known he would fight it , he thought. He sat back and turned the viewing screen onto