"L. E. Modesitt - Recluce 07 - The magic Engineer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

it would be worse. Much worse. Even if a Black as great as Creslin appeared, and that is not
likely. Not with the Balance."
"But why?"
"I told you why. Because there are more people. Because everything relates to everything else.
And because there is more order in the world today."
Dorrin looks at his father's earnest face, purses his lips, and falls silent.
"I'm going to help your mother with dinner. Do you know where Kyl is?"
"Down on the beach."
"Would you get him, please?"
"Yes, ser." Dorrin inclines his head and stands. As he crosses the close-grown lawn, his steps
are deliberate, carrying him along the knife-edged stone walk with the precision that
characterizes his speech and dress.
After a last look at his son, the wizard turns to wend his way through the library and toward
the kitchen.


III

"UNTIL YOU CAN prove you are the man with the white sword-that's how long before you could count
on being the High Wizard, Jeslek."
"I suppose I would have to raise mountains along the Analerian highlands? Is that what you're
saying, Sterol?"
"It wouldn't hurt," quips the man in white with the amulet around his neck.
"It could be done, you know. Especially with all the increased order created over the past
generations by Recluce." The sun in Jeslek's eyes bathes the room.
"The day you do that, I'll hand you the amulet." Sterol laughs, and the sound is colder than
the wind that swirls across the winter skies above Fairhaven.
"I mean it. It's not a question of pure force, you know. It's a question of releasing order
bounds deep within the earth."
"There is one condition, however."


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"Oh?"
"You must preserve the great road, and stand amidst your mountains as you raise them."
Jeslek chuckles. "Getting more cautious, I see."
"Merely prudent. One would not wish a High Wizard who could not control the chaos he released.
That was the example of Jenred."
"Spare me that lecture."
"Of course. You young ones do not need the ancient tales and parables because they do not apply
in a changing world."
Jeslek frowns, but bows. "By your leave?"
"Of course, dear Jeslek. Do let me know when you plan to raise mountains."
"I certainly will. I would not wish you to miss anything."


IV