"Rebecca Neason - Highlander - The Path" - читать интересную книгу автора (Neason Rebecca)

it, something of the mother for whom he had always been looking. She
had known and accepted the truth about MacLeod. Her example had helped
Richie do the same so flik in time, he was able to face his own
Immortality without the

terror and confusion that MacLeod, and so many others, had experienced.

The same act of random violence that had given birth to Richie's
Immortality had ended Tessa's life. For her there was no awakening, no
continuance except in the lives of those she had loved. MacLeod would
have continued teaching Richie anyway-as Connor MacLeod had taught him;
as the hmortal Ramirez had taught Connor; as Graham Ashe had taught
Ramirez, on and on back through tim"ut in Tessa's memory he chd so with
more understanding and patience than he might otherwise have offered.

Richie was still waiting for an answer. Now MacLeod was ready to give
him one.

"You're not going to give up on this, are you?" he asked, already
certain of the answer.

Richie's smile broadened. He lifted his hands in the familiar gesture
that was half a shrug, half a brag. "Hey, you know me."

"Yeah, I do," MacLeod said.

He waited a moment longer, still studying Richie. Then, mentally,
Duncan gave a small sigh; he might as well get (I-us over with, he
thought as he gestured toward the chair aer-oss from him.

"Have a seat, Richie," he said, "and tell me what you )mow about the
Dalai Lama."
Richie sat in the office's other chair and leaned back. "I know he's
some sort of religious leader from Tibet who's been living in exile for,
like, dft years, since the Communists took over his government."

'T"-seven now, since 1959. What do you know about how the Dalai Lama is
chosen?"

"I suppose he's the most holy dude in the temple or something. Wait a
minute-isn't there some sort of reincarnation thing involved?" "That's
right," Duncan answered. "Me current Dalai Lama is the fourteenth
incarnation in a fine that goes back hundreds of years."

"But you don't believe that stuff, do you, Mac? I mean
reincarnation-isn't that, like-2' "Impossible? As Unpossible as, say,
h=ortality?"

"Good point," Richie conceded with a quick grin. "But that still
doesn't explain why you won't go to the peace rally."