Аннотация
The Scrolls of the Ancients
Robert Newcomb
Prologue:
Relinquishment
"And there shall come unto Eutracia one who shall willingly forsake her firstborn… And the child cast away shall haunt her dreams for her entire life. Yet it shall be this same child, temporarily lost and alone in the maze that is the craft, who shall also become known as one of its greatest wielders."
- PAGE 866, CHAPTER TWO OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE TOME"D o not tell me your name, my dear. But by what name shall we call the child? And remember, first name only, please."
The matron's voice was neither condescending nor harsh. She waited patiently, her squat, bulky frame blocking the doorway to the building behind her.
But the young mother standing before her in the rain had no ready answer. She had not given her child a name, for doing so would only further cement the bond she already felt with him and make the act she was about to perform even more impossible. Tightening he...
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