"Matthew Woodring Stover - Caine 02 - Blade Of Tyshalle2" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stover Matthew Woodring)

Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly
unpredictable, even devastating way... .

That's a deep truth about the structure of our universe. But, for some reason, we insist on behaving as if
it were not true.

-"Ian Malcom" Michael Crichton

JurassicPark

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

-Aleister Crowley

The Book of the Law



A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers.

One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is
forever youthful, the other old before his time.

One is mortal.

They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless.

They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.

ZERO

The only way I can explain why you'll never see me again is to tell you about Hari.

This is how I visualize the conversation that ended up pushing me into Hari Michaelson's life. I wasn't
there-I don't know the details-but the images in my head are vivid as a slap on the mouth; to be a good
thaumaturge, your imagination must be powerful and detailed-and I'm the best the Conservatory has ever
produced.

This is how I see it:

"It's all here in the telemetry;" says Administrator Wilson Chandra, Chairman of the Studio
Conservatory. He wipes the sweat from his palms on the hem of his Costanti chlamys and blinks through
a stinging cloud of cigar smoke. He licks his lips-they're thick, and always dry-as he looks down at the
rows of trainee magicians who meditate with furious concentration below. I'm not in thatclass, by the
way; these are beginners.

Chandra goes on: "He's doing very well on the academics, you know, he has a fine grasp of Westerling
and is coming along very well in First Continent cultural mores, but as you can see, he can barely maintain
alpha, let alone moving to the beta consciousness required for effective spellcasting, and we, we're