Аннотация
Tad Williams
Shadowplay
Volume Two of Shadowmarch
PART ONE: MASKS
Prelude
THE OLDER ONES IN THE HOUSEHOLD had hunted the missing boy for an hour without result, but his sister knew where to look.
"Surprise," she said. "It's me."
His dark hose and velvet tunic gray with dust and his face streaked with grime, he looked like a very sad goblin. "Auntie 'Lanna and the other women are all making a great fuss, searching for you," she said. "I can't be¬lieve they didn't look here. Don't they remember anything?"
"Go away."
"I can't, now, stupid. Lady Simeon and two of the maids were just be¬hind me-I heard them coming up the corridor." She set the candle be¬tween two paving stones in the floor. "If I go out now they'll know where you're hiding." She grinned, pleased with her maneuver. "So I'm staying, and you can't make me go."
"Then be quiet."
"No. Not unless I want to be. I'm a princess and you can't give me or¬ders. Only Fa...
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