here and there in the woods and villages but to count on such welcome what was accorded
to knesinka meadow velkh, it was not necessary any more. Worse than that: everything was
it is perfectly known that the local people traded as was able and at all not
avoided robbery. In the near future, when between two powers will go
brisk trade there and back merchant wagon trains, by itself will also become constant visitor
there will be along a brisk path sentry towns, will appear
the armed traveling. However so far it was not trace and.
Sivur it was necessary to be transported through deep on flat-bottomed
the ferry set in motion by oars. This ferry was floated in
the main for the sake of visitors from them coddled, unusual to works and
to dangers horses. Velkh if there was a need, pulled out from
sheds the nimble round boats sheathed by bull skin, and tempered horses
were transported on other coast by swimming. In Klyuchinke still remembered how heroes
long ago the passed times chose to themselves for future feats of a racer.
Drove a tabunok of foals into the river and noticed that from them who not
jumped out in a fright back on the coast, and, on the contrary, bravely came up on
depth.
Crossing through the river like Sivur - business not quite safe. It not
some forest rivulet which the horse fords, without having wetted
belly. Foremen of security troops were going to council near pulled out
on the coast of the ferry. Luchezar was with the closest helpers, came
leaders of the groups exposed by galiradsky associations -
solvennam, velkham and segvanam.
Also the Wolfhound came. In leaders it never climbed, but to the senior
the bodyguard of a knesinka needed to know at least that leaders started.
Aptakhar friendly greeted him. It is small - Ghosn, ryzheusy velkhskiya
the foreman, politely bowed, сольвенн Muzhila indifferently nodded.
The boyar Luchezar discontentedly frowned, pokhazhivy around the ferry and time
from time boomingly kicking with a leg the thick tarred boards. Black pitch
soiled the green, embroidered by color silk boots, but Left did not turn
attention: not to it to wipe, on that servants are also slaves.
- The bast shoe is full of holes, - it rugnutsya, having left the ferry and coming back to
the rest. - It is good if once reaches that coast, not
having collapsed in the middle!. Means, so: first of all, not to soak,
let's transport the sister with servants and ten soldiers for protection. Then
let's begin to carry my good fellows and velimorets... how long this wash-tub on a dosochka
will not seat. You, city, after a team. But do not want to wait -
by boats or by swimming together with horses. Anything, probably you do not razmoknt.
Troy Vityazey-Luchezarovichey with a bored face shifted from one foot to the other at the boyar
behind the back. To them that it solve, everything is good, all Ljubo. Wolfhound quickly
looked at foremen of ratnik; whether will begin to object. They did not become. Them
business - is good to be at war if it is necessary, and start up decisions accept who
poznatny. The wolfhound wondered whether these three found time as he,
in good time to examine the ferry and to be convinced that the flat-bottomed vessel was
let it is not new and very unsightly, but by no means did not become obsolete a century yet. And
floated last time not so long ago, and therefore and to crack not
was in time...
- Solved, so - Luchezar spoke.
- No, - looking under legs, the Wolfhound told. All turned to it.
- How it is not present? - with irritation the boyar, and on cheekbones at him was surprised
red spots acted. - How it is not present?
- In the beginning a half of soldiers has to be transported. Or it is even more.
And how many army, there is so much and city, - the Wolfhound told.
He looked for the river. There, where the ferry should moor, was seen
pure glade about a strelishch in the diameter. And behind it and around - continuous
wood wall. Yes not red pine forest, as on сю the party, and a dense fir grove
in half with disproportionately extended birches. The road left a glade in
and at once somewhere turned this wood. The thicket, of course, was well
it is reconnoitered both local, and hunters from group. But to transport there
and to leave a knesinka with servants and pathetic ten fighters?.
- When they saddle, - the Wolfhound continued, - we will transport madam.
Then the others.
- What?. - the boyar choked. - It who opened a mouth? Commander
glorified? Over two adolescents the chief?.
Heroes were joyfully made, but the Wolfhound did not move a little and
answered nothing.
- All right! - Luchezar told. - Let's make as I told and who is dissatisfied,
can come back to Galirad.
Wolfhound, still looking for the river, separately spoke:
- While I am living, the monarchess will not ascend to the first ferry. Heroes
became thoughtful, became gloomy. Foremen began to exchange glances. The first,
having coughed in a fist, Aptakhar gave a vote:
- On me, you so would listen to it, the sovereign Luchezar. Хегг eat me,
not so he is also wrong.
Solvenn Muzhila just in case receded from him aside that not
to look involved in impudent speeches. But It is small - Ghosn pulled itself at moustaches
and resolutely joined a segvan:
- Our brothers, klyuchinsky velkh, would not begin to offer the ban-riyena
ferry full of holes. The bodyguard talks sense, the sovereign.
- You wanted it? - by the voice shivering from rage Luchezar addressed to
To wolfhound. - That we among themselves fell out? And even a fight was started,
while robbers forest put my sister in a bag?
The wolfhound looked in eyes to the segvansky foreman and told:
- Tell to the boyar, Aptakhar that I want to embroil nobody with anybody.
But on the first ferry the knesinka will not go.
He still did not look at the boyar, but out of the corner of the eye saw that that
shook. Still he saw the velimorsky envoy approaching them.
Noble нарлак something imperceptibly reminded him Fitela: whether black
with silver hair, whether quiet dignity of the person not
aggressive, but able to stand for itself.
- About what a dispute, my masters? - having approached and having greeted, asked
velimorets.
Reached manhood, it is visible, understood that it is impossible to keep silent more, and became
to explain:
- Yes here, the sovereign to Dungorm, Luchezar Luginich says that the ferry
it is shaky, and wants to transport at first Elen Gluzdovna, and the bodyguard,
you vit, rests, tells, a half of group in the beginning...
The envoy Dungorm led round debaters an attentive look. Behind seigniorial
love he especially did not pursue, and here the bride to the mister wanted
to deliver live and safe. He shrugged shoulders and offered:
- I with the people will be glad to test ferry fortress. We can
to be transported directly today, and tomorrow, really, why the first
the ferry not to transport madam...
There is nothing to do, it was necessary to agree to Luchezar. Understood, probably:
undertake to persist it, and it
would seem strange. Wolfhound,
however, caught as the boyar began to creak teeth, and wondered: why
that so held the ground? From one arrogance? Let supposedly me be wrong, but as
told, and it will be become?. Or it was necessary to it for some reason that a knesinka
nearly one appeared on that coast?.
At first this thought seemed to the bodyguard too terrible. Nevertheless
he forced itself not to wave away from it. He in the life saw
anything. Also managed to acquire: you want to live on light longer, always be
it is ready to the worst. And still. There are people who are not obligatory
to bring to the edge that they betrayed own mother.
Or sister.
Whether it is necessary to say that in the last night Likhoslav permanently stuck out at
the ferry, and Likhobor continually visited him there. When business reached to
crossings. The wolfhound itself built a knesinka to the ferry and further than to a step from
it did not depart. When to that coast there were one and a half strelishch, it
told Elen to Gluzdovna:
- Make favor, the monarchess, put on a chain armor. Knesinka measured it
look:
- Here still... I will not become, there is no need.
- Put on, madam, - the Wolfhound repeated. Knesinka threw up eyes; it
looked at it quietly and gloomy, and it was visible that to this person long ago
it was not possible to sleep properly any more. Employed to protect, so though not
argue, it was written at it on a face. It became a shame to Knesinke. It lowered
the head also took from it a brilliant chain armor which could not damage
even sea water.
She did not begin to ask a vein what there it had on mind, but
noticed that it persistently kept between it and the coast. Here the ferry with
rustle ran the flat bottom into a small coastal sand, knocked about
board ridge staircases from fir-tree boards, capable to sustain loaded
vehicle. Dungorm took care in good time to build the good fellows and itself left
to greet the knesinka just crossing a limit of solvennsky
powers. The celebration, however, did not turn out. Dungorm puzzly
frowned when forward monarchesses, closing and hiding her wide
backs, on the coast three bodyguards went down. And everyone held in
hands the equipped onions with an awful armor-piercing arrow on a bowstring.
Bodyguards led the girl to a tent, carefully raskinuty at once
velimorets. Afterwards there sent servants and the nurse and, so far
other army was transported, allowed to lean out to nobody outside.
The offended Luchezar all look showed what does not trust in any
danger. He went with the to the distant end of a glade, and soon from there
the knocking of wooden swords reached. Here than Left did not neglect
never, so it military exercises.
The Velimorsky envoy, clear, visited a tent to testify
the respect to madam. When left, stopped to talk over with
The wolfhound sitting at a door curtain. Dungorm was notable, well-born
the grandee, but spent youth at army, in fighting campaigns, and did not get used
to consider a conversation with the simple soldier for dishonor. Besides velimorets
not bad understood in people and during the travel it managed to be convinced:
the bodyguard-venn was not at all a stupid brutish murderer whom
a half of a galiradsky team considered it.
- Both of us want to take safely madam, - there began Dungorm. - And
therefore I would not refuse to know, for what reason you so behave,
Wolfhound... you the Wolfhound are called?
Veins responded without any hunting:
- Perhaps also call.
Ashore the people, from again moored ferry carefully fussed
rolled out the vehicle, leather velkhsky boats stuck nearby. Soldiers
brought out of water wearily отфыркивавшихся the horses who overcame Sivur.
Were extremely necessary to a wolfhound It is small - Ghosn or Aptakhar, but to these two
it was necessary to be transported still at a distant day. Therefore veins on the coast almost not
looked. He did not take eyes from tall fir-trees, a wall surrounded coastal
glade.
- What you so do not love the boyar Luchezar for? - velimorets asked. - It
brave soldier and besides relative to madam.
The wolfhound did not want to answer it, and he kept silent. Dungorm
annoyancely thought that galiradsky heroes were not so wrong. One
kindly: furious and disrespectful veins really protected the monarchess,
as devoted dog.
- In vain you think as if nobody, except you, wants good to madam, -
Dungorm told and was going to leave, but here the Wolfhound quickly looked at it
also grumbled:
- That there I think, this case tenth. It is simple if I wanted to kill
knesinka, I would make an ambush here. Dungorm angrily slapped himself on
to knee:
- Ambush!. It is right, the train rich, but soldiers!. And to whom?.
whether you want, the Wolfhound to show what you eat not with a gift bread?
Under other circumstances the Wolfhound just tightly would become silent and not
became farther to talk to him. However now to it had no time for itself. And not
to the pride. In addition during the road he looked narrowly too to
Also understood Dungorma: нарлак there was not a fool and sincerely cared about
to knesinka. And therefore the Wolfhound asked it:
- Tell better, the respectable ambassador whether your people when saw whom
arranged the camp?
- Nobody, - Dungorm shrugged shoulders. Then, having thought, remembered: - That
is saw some ragamuffin... hunter, probably. Guys told,
he so got a fright them that he got away carelessly. And you are an ambush!
The wolfhound for the first time turned to him, light eyes became
fixed:
- But that hunter of a nest somewhere on a tree did not twist? In that
to the party?
And it shook the head there where huge fir-trees grew most densely,
hanging over open space. Dungorm answered nothing, but at once
somewhere began to bustle. The wolfhound heard how the velimorsky envoy called to
to the senior over the soldiers. If they there though find something,
he told himself, Left I do not trust any word any more. To any.
Velimorets had spravny soldiers who managed to be dissolved in forest
darkness and imperceptibly to merge with shadows. Day passed quietly, but in twilight
they noticed the person who was silently stolen to a huge tree.
The tercentenary fir-tree stood in some distance from a glade, but
surpassed all the neighbors by both height, and splendor of needles. Velimortsa
called to the person when he was already going for it to climb. Having heard a call,
he shuddered, and then jumped up, was brought up also with dexterity of a cat
directed up. Arrows, however, were quicker: one of them
hit it a leg, having tightly nailed. Several soldiers already quickly
clambered afterwards, hoping to catch the stranger and to bring him on
interrogation. Having risen to it, they were convinced that they were late. The person understood,
what will not leave, and struck itself on a hand small, but very sharp knife,
greased with some poison. The poison instantly worked: velimorets
lowered a corpse
from a tree. Odette the person was in the hunter's clothes,
torn and poor.
Velimorsky soldiers climbed up a tree and found convenient there
scaffold from poles from which all camp was clearly visible. On
scaffold found small, but terribly strong and long-range onions with
strong leather bowstring. And arrows to it. A half of arrows was twined
pitch tow it is also supplied with bidentate tips. Not painfully
you will fling away, stopping the fire. Poison was found in others on heads. That
that saved from interrogation of the shooter.
Dead body, without making special noise, dug under a fir-tree. Before
than to bury, it was carefully examined, but did not find anything, except
small tattoo. Under the left mouse of the killed Fire Sign became blue,
turned out by petals inside.
The road ahead as spoke, did not allow to get lost, but nevertheless
klyuchinsky velkh sent with a knesinka of the conductor. Or rather, the conductor -
gray-eyed warrior Ertan. The benefit happened to the resolute girl
to travel it is far from native places including to Castle mountains.
Young soldiers were uncontrollably attracted by proud beauty of a velkhinka.
Many tried to find to it approach, but encountered ice
contempt. And who too inflamed passion, - received furious
repulse also did not know then how to hide bruises. Ertan herself chose with whom to her
to be on friendly terms with whom not to be on friendly terms. In several days of traveling by itself
it developed so that the warrior kept mostly near the vehicle
knesinka, stirrup in a stirrup with the Wolfhound, and tirelessly told a vein
about places which they passed. Soon to them began to be attached
also It is small - Ghosn, both Aptakhar, and even Muzhila. Entertaining stories Ertan with
curiosity the knesinka going in a closed sleigh listened, astride
To snowflake.
They should leave to a fork where the road was divided into two:
Old and New. New wound among stony hills where if
the spring, by all means with tasteless, lime water came across. Was not
there and in the slightest degree the decent place for the parking. To the one who was let in
the way on Novaya Road, was necessary not less than two nights (and you will linger -
and all three) to sleep on the drafts which were incessantly blowing between
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