"Knight, Angela - (Magerverse 01) - Seduction's gift" - читать интересную книгу автора (Knight Angela)Grace opened the front door half-hoping to find Lance waiting for
her. She wasn't sure if she'd rather take him to bed or plow her fist into his face. In her current mood, she suspected either would do. Instead she stepped inside to see a dark, hulking shape waiting in her living room. Every muscle instantly knotted. She flicked on the light. The shape resolved itself in a massive chunk of granite with a sword thrust through it. Grace straightened from her instinctive crouch and dropped her hand from her holster. "Okay, what the hell is this?" Despite her irritation, some part of her sang in anticipation. Count on Lancelot to give her exactly what she desperately needed. She swung the door closed behind her and stalked toward the stone with its embedded weapon. She wasn't at all surprised to see an inscription cut into the granite: Maybe you'd rather be a Champion. Grace studied the sword, adrenaline surging through her blood. The simple cross guard hilt was plain, unadorned, without the gems and runes she'd seen on Excalibur's. It looked exactly like the Her lips peeled back from her teeth. Without hesitation, she scrambled up on top of the stone until she could get a good grip on the sword. "Want to play, Lance?" she muttered, heaving upward. "Okay, let's play." The blade pulled free of the rock with a slow, sliding sensation, as if it had been buried in peanut butter. The instant the point cleared the granite, light exploded in Grace's eyes, brilliant and cold. Blinded, she was dimly aware of a spinning sensation she recognized as a dimensional doorway. Must be a spell generator in the rock, she thought. When the purple flashes faded from her dazzled vision, she found herself standing in a huge space that reminded her of a medieval castle great hall, complete with arched walls and a curving staircase running up one side. "Jesus," she muttered, turning in a slow circle with the sword still gripped in one hand, "I've been transported into an Errol Flynn movie." A loud, warning creak made her spin warily just as a wooden door |
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