"Robert Jordan - The Wheel of Time 02 - The Great Hunt" - читать интересную книгу автора (Jordan Robert)

"No." It was what he had been wishing, that she would want to go with him. He opened his eyes and
squared his back and made his voice firm. "No, I wouldn't let her come with me if she did ask." He could
not do that to her.But Light, wouldn't it he sweet, just for a minute, if she said she wanted to? "She
gets muley stubborn if she thinks I'm trying to tell her what to do, but I can still protect her from that." He
wished she were back home in Emond's Field, but all hope of that had gone the day Moiraine came to
the Two Rivers. "Even if it means she does become an Aes Sedai!" The corner of his eye caught Lan's
raised eyebrow, and he flushed.

"And that is all the reason? You want to spend as much time as you can with your friends from home
before they go? That's why you're dragging your feet? You know what's sniffing at your heels."

Rand surged angrily to his feet. "All right, it's Moiraine! I wouldn't even be here if not for her, and she
won't as much as talk to me."
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"You'd be dead if not for her, sheepherder," Lan said flatly, but Rand rushed on.

"She tells me . . . tells me horrible things about myself" — his knuckles whitened on the sword.That I'm
going to go mad and die! — "and then suddenly she won't even say two words to me. She acts as if I'm
no different than the day she found me, and that smells wrong, too."

"You want her to treat you like what you are?"

"No! I don't mean that. Burn me, I don't know what I mean half the time. I don't want that, and I'm
scared of the other. Now she's gone off somewhere, vanished . . ."

"I told you she needs to be alone sometimes. It isn't for you, or anyone else, to question her actions."

". . . without telling anybody where she was going, or when she'd be back, or even if she would be back.
She has to be able to tell me something to help me, Lan. Something. She has to. If she ever comes back."

"She's back, sheepherder. Last night. But I think she has told you all she can. Be satisfied. You've
learned what you can from her." With a shake of his head, Lan's voice became brisk. "You certainly
aren't learning anything standing there. Time for a little balance work. Go through Parting the Silk,
beginning from Heron Wading in the Rushes. Remember that that Heron form is only for practicing
balance. Anywhere but doing forms, it leaves you wide open; you can strike home from it, if you wait for
the other man to move first, but you'll never avoid his blade."

"Shehas to be able to tell me something, Lan. That wind. It wasn't natural, and I don't care how close to
the Blight we are."

"Heron Wading in the Rushes, sheepherder. And mind your wrists."

From the south came a faint peal of trumpets, a rolling fanfare slowly growing louder, accompanied by
the steadythrum-thrum-THRUM-thrum of drums. For a moment Rand and Lan stared at each other,
then the drums drew them to the tower wall to stare southward.