Ithanalin's Restoration. Lawrence Watt-Evans
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Название: Ithanalin's Restoration
Автор: Lawrence Watt-Evans
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Контркультура
isbn: 9781479402984
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Kilisha threw him an angry glare, and he realized he had said something wrong.
“Come on,” she said. “Bring your sisters. And the minute we’re all inside the house, slam the door tight!”
“Kilisha, what’s going on?” Adagan asked, still clinging tightly to his broom.
“I’ll tell you later,” Kilisha said, as she marched back home, with the coat-rack held overhead.
“Can I help?” Adagan called a moment later, but by then Kilisha was struggling to get an uncooperative coat-rack through Ithanalin’s front door and was far too busy to answer.
At last, though, she got the entire thing inside, still raised above her head—where it was now trying to get traction against the ceiling, to prevent Kilisha from transporting it any further into the house. It was succeeding well enough that Kilisha was afraid it would force her back against the motionless Ithanalin, knocking her and the wizard off their feet.
“Telleth!” she called without looking for the boy—her attention was focused entirely upward, on the squirming implement in her tiring hands.
The door slammed, and she heard the click of the lock. She let out a sigh, lowered the coat-rack to the floor, and released her hold.
“There,” she said.
The coat-rack scurried away from her, toward the far corner of the room.
“You can do whatever you want,” she told it, glaring and wagging an admonitory finger, “so long as you stay in this house. You belong here, and we’re going to need you here later, but we don’t want to hurt you, and we don’t care what you do for now so long as you don’t go anywhere or hurt anyone. Do you understand?”
The coat-rack hesitated, then nodded its top.
“If you get out again, we will hurt you. We’re magicians, so we’ll be able to find you no matter where you go.”
It shuddered, then nodded again.
“Good.” She relaxed, and lowered her pointing finger. She looked around.
Yara was in the door of the back room, staring at her. The spoon and bowl were nowhere in sight.
The three children were standing behind her, just inside the door, staring up at her open-mouthed. She stared back, wondering why they looked so astonished; they were a wizard’s children, and they had all seen plenty of magic before. Surely, an animated coat-rack wasn’t that amazing.
“Kilisha,” Telleth asked, “what’s going on?”
“Yeah,” Lirrin said, “I never heard you yell like that before!”
Kilisha sagged, then sat down on the floor with a thump.
Yara and the children would need to know, if they were going to help—and she wasn’t sure she could do the job without their help. Choosing her words carefully, she began to tell them what had happened.
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