"Tanya Huff - Crystal 2 - The Last Wizard" - читать интересную книгу автора (Huff Tanya)

Copyright ® 1989 by Tanya Huff.
All Rights Reserved.
Cover art by Dennis Nolan.
DAW Book Collectors No. 775.

For Fe, who freed the emotions and
refuses to let me lock them away again.

First Printing, March 1989
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Printed in the U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Doris Bercarich
for technical assistance above and beyond the call of
friendship. / wouldn't have lent me a disk drive.

Progenitor

Seven were the goddesses remaining when the gods
were destroyed. Seven they were and these were their
degrees:

Nashawryn was the eldest; ebony haired and sil-
ver eyed, ruler of night and darkness, conceal-
ment and safety held in one cupped hand, a
dagger of fear clenched tight in the other fist.

Zarsheiy, who closely followed night in age,
ruled fire, and, claimed her dark sister, was ruled
by it. Flame her hair and flame her eyes and
flame, they said, her heart. Passionate and un-
predictable, one moment giving, the next de-
stroying, Zarsheiy's temper was legend amongst
both Mortals and the deities they had created.

Most loved of all the seven was Geta, Freedom,
who watched her twin brother Getan, god of
Justice, destroyed by his Wizard son and so hid
her grieving face from Mortals all the long years
the Wizards ruled.

Gentle Sholah held hearth and harvest in the bowl
of her two hands. Her dance turned the seasons,
and she was the first who dared deny Nashawryn
and have Zarsheiy heed her call.

Tayja was Sholah*s daughter, carved for her of
mahogany from the heart of a single tree by