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Roger Zelazny. Sign of chaos
Atec Ноябрь 07 2007 02:48:28
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. Since I
had seen the broken gliders at various points within the walls during my own
visit to that place, it was logical to assume that Luke had been captured.
Therefore, it seemed a fairly strong assumption that the sorcerer Mask had
done whatever had been done to him to bring him to this state. It would seem
that this simply involved introducing a dose of a hallucinogen_to his prison
fare and turning him loose to wander and look at the-pretty lights.
Fortunately, unlike myself, his mental travelings had involved nothing more
threatening than the brighter aspects of Lewis Carroll. Maybe his heart was
purer than mine. But the deal was weird any way you looked at it. Mask might
have killed him or kept him in prison or added him to the coatrack
collection. Instead, while what had been done was not without risk, it was
something which would wear off eventually and leave him chastened but at
liberty. It was more a slap on the wrist than a real piece of vengeance.
This, for a member of the House which had previously held sway in the Keep
and would doubtless like to do so again. Was Mask supremely confident? Or
did he not really see Luke as much of a threat?
And then there is the fact that our shadow-shifting abilities and our
sorcerous abilities come from similar roots-the Pattern or the Logms. It had
to be that messing with one also messed with the other
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