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

"We've talked about that before, Dorrin. If we direct the storms, it will change the world's
weather, make a desert of Recluce again, and kill thousands everywhere. You're just going to have
to concentrate on what you're supposed to be doing. And I can't make you. I'm sending you to study
with Lortren."
"Is that wise?" asks Rebekah.
"What else can I do? He doesn't listen to me."
"Father?"
"Yes, Dorrin."
The redhead takes a deep breath. "I do listen to you. I can't do what you want me to do, and I
don't want to. You are a great air wizard. I never will be. Can't you just let me be what I am?"
"Dorrin, machines and chaos were what brought down the Angels. Now, admittedly, you couldn't
handle chaos if your life depended on it, which, thankfully, it doesn't. But this obsession with
building machines is unnatural. What good will they bring? Will they make people healthier, the
way healers do? Or will we tear up the earth in search of metals? Will we poison the rivers
refining them? And part of the order of Recluce is supported by the core of cold iron ore that
runs down the hills above the Feyn. Would you throw that away for machines that would run and
wither away?" Dorrin looks down for a moment, then turns to his father. "It doesn't have to be
that way. Hegl doesn't make a mess. Everything there is reused."
"Hegl doesn't need stones' and stones' worth of metals. Machines do." Oran shakes his head.
"Perhaps Lortren can make you two understand."
"What did I do?" protests Kyl.
"Nothing," answers the air wizard.
"But.. .?"
"Oh ... I was referring to Dorrin's friend Kadara. She thinks that strength and skill are the
answer to everything. She refuses to listen to her mother, only to Hegl, because she only respects
physical strength."
"Kadara's going to the Academy, too?" Dorrin looks from his brother toward his father.
Oran nods. "I am not exactly pleased with the idea. Nor is Hegl, but the Brotherhood is even


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less pleased about the thought of either one of you continuing essentially unsupervised,
especially as friends. Lortren should be able to teach you a thing or two."
"What if he can't?" asks Kyl fearfully.
Both parents look at the younger son.
"Well, what if he can't?" demands the dark-haired boy.
"We'll face that later," answers the air wizard. "And Lortren is a woman. She is equally adept
with a shortsword and the manipulation of order."
Kyl's eyes dart from his father to his older brother and back.
Oran takes another sip from his tumbler.
Rebekah stands. "Dinner will be ready in just a moment. Kyl?" She inclines her head toward the
pantry. Kyl scurries for the tableware.
"I need to check something," the air wizard comments, setting the tumbler on the top of the pie
safe before walking toward the study.
Dorrin looks toward his mother, who slices scallions into a skillet. After a moment, he walks
toward the porch to think before dinner.