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Dragon’s Empire – 5
Society of Shadows
Natalie Yacobson
Переводчик Natalia Lilienthal
© Natalie Yacobson, 2022
© Natalia Lilienthal, перевод, 2022
ISBN 978-5-0056-1167-3 (т. 5)
ISBN 978-5-0055-4050-8
Создано в интеллектуальной издательской системе Ridero
Danger
«You are mad,» said Vincent, glancing warily at the parcel on the table in front of me. “ «At first was the violin, now this,» he pointed to the object wrapped in a white cambric tablecloth, which was already covered with tiny red flecks. The object was shaped and bulky, like a large head of cheese or a balloon wrapped in a cloth.
«You’d have to be insane to steal from under the hangman’s nose what he’s supposed to bury.»
«I think so, too,» I nodded, unable to explain why I flew over the pole and removed something that should have stayed there until it rotted away. Perhaps I should have done it, regardless of my own desire, should have taken Sylvia’s head back to where I’d first seen her, then still slung around her graceful neck, coquettish, smiling in the mirror, but… marble. Perhaps she would turn back to stone if I put her back on the console. Only, how to find that place among the gray plain, even in the prosperity of my father’s country, not everyone could find the archway and get through it to the meeting hall, hidden at the bottom of the ravine.