Аннотация
Richard Lee Byers
Whisper of Venom
PROLOGUE
19 MIRTUL, THE YEAR OF THE AGELESS ONE (1479 DR)
Is this wise?” Ananta asked.
Surprised, Brimstone turned, and his tail whispered across the cavern floor. Though the chamber was spacious, Ananta stood against the wall, her sturdy, scaly body wrapped in a gray cloak and her blackwood staff in her hand. In the course of her duties as guardian of Dracowyr, she’d no doubt learned to give wyrms room lest they accidentally step on her.
“Why, Ananta,” Brimstone said, “I didn’t know you cared.”
The guardian responded with what Brimstone had come to recognize as a frown, a slight baring of the fangs coupled with a twitch of the frills on the sides of the saurian head. The facial expressions of the strange new creatures called dragonborn had much in common with those of true dragons.
“My lord Skalnaedyr commanded me to look after you,” Ananta replied, “and so I do.”
The explanation lacked a...
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