Аннотация
Ryan Hughes
The Darkness Before the Dawn
Dark Sun, Chronicles Of Athas, Book Two
For the Thursday night brainstorming gang with special thanks to Steve and Chris York for the piles of bones.
Chapter One
The fifty or so Jura-Dai elves who cavorted before the flaming wreckage of the enormous wooden merchant wagon didn't seem to care. Their brightly colored cloaks and shirts and loose, blousy pants flapped gaily as they spun and danced in the flickering light, and their voices rose in laughter and song. Of course, they were the victors. The losers-slave runners who had made the mistake of taking one of the tribe captive-were inside the caravan, the smoke of their flesh and bones adding to the wagon's in a single enormous funeral pyre. The few who hadn't died in battle had been driven along with the slaves the elves had freed out into the desert to fend for themselves.
Jedra, a half-elf who had been imprisoned along with the Jura-Dai tribesman, watche...
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