Bloody Revenge

by Darrell Guidry

  shows. If is able. And he, most likely, is able. And whether it is reasonable at all

  to humiliate it at "sister"...

  Luchezar, of course, to fight there was not a fool. Venn understood at once, on

  what opponent ran. The hero is not the city policeman,

  yesterday's тестомес, not washed from flour yet. It is a soldier. And soldiers with

  cradles it is brought up. To the knes beloved adopted son, if not the sworn brother.

  The fighter from fighters, to any ratoborstvo trained. Luchezar was dexterous and

  it is mighty... Here only why it moved as if morning after? Boyar

  began to roar and rushed to be released... The wolfhound held it without special

  cunnings, though hardly.

  Fortunately, fight continued some moments. Knesinka Elen

  fearlessly ran away to them from a porch. To separate the dogs fighting,

  it was thought to the Wolfhound. It pushed away the boyar and itself receded back, hard

  breathing. Now she orders to clean up forever to it from eyes. Also will be,

  undoubtedly, it is right. She saw it before only three times. And Left it

  the sister calls. To tell it about an old velkhinka the Wolfhound not

  gathered.

  - Go, Luchezar, - the young ruler told suddenly. - Go

  to.

  And the boyar left. He shivered from rage and looked around continually. But

  did not add the word any more.

  The wolfhound looked in a back to a knesinka and too was silent, expecting deserved

  punishments. And here... at first he felt well familiar in one nostril

  dampness, then raised a hand, saw a bright red drop on a finger and understood,

  that Left, that without knowing, after all revenged it. Short, but fierce

  tension made itself felt. So quite often happened since in

  to stone quarry to it crippled a nose. And always it happened in most

  inopportune moment. Swearing about itself, the Wolfhound pulled out from zone

  pocket always the rag stored there also began to push it in a nose.

  Well still, in time bethought and did not profane blood a porch,

  brand new presented cover...

  Knesinka turned back to it, and eyes at her were rounded.

  - Forgive, madam, - it is guilty the Wolfhound, and really spoke

  ready to vanish into thin air.

  The girl quickly inspected the yard, - whether sees who, - and is resolute

  seized him by a hand;

  - Let's go!

  Her fingers did not agree at it on a wrist, but handshake was strong. It

  the vein on a porch, then at a door further in rooms dragged.

  - Nanny! - she called on the run. - Bring water cold!. And you

  sit down. - It concerned already to the Wolfhound, and he obediently sat down on a bench at

  entrance.

  The old woman looked out of other room, looked at it, again

  disappeared and at last left with a big-bellied clay jug and big clay

  bowl.

  - It is good заступничек... - she grumbled in a low voice, but so that it

  heard. - Nurses are necessary...

  - Throw back the head, - the knesinka to the Wolfhound ordered.

  - And you go, the baby, - the old woman drove it. - Go, be not soiled.

  She approved a bowl at it on a lap, splashed ice water, pulled

  Wolfhound for hair, forcing to bend down below, moistened a rag and

  put to it to a bridge of the nose. Then it is tenacious grabbed by a middle finger and hardly

  drew a thread on bottom edge of a nail.

  - Thanks, the grandmother, - he murmured nasally. The person, at which

  there is from a nose blood, is pathetic and very ugly. Will expel, with despair thought

  Wolfhound, watching as the drops falling in a bowl thin. As is will expel. Yes

  also will correctly make. True priobidet a team, with the boyar started a quarrel,

  and now also a shameless show offended. On what to it...

  - How are you?. - the knesinka asked. The wolfhound raised eyes. She looked

  on it with sincere compassion. - How, it is better for you?. Yes from what though?.

  The wolfhound reluctantly answered:

  - Broke once, since then and happens.

  - The juveniles are shameless, - the old woman grumbled. - Besprochy. In total on taverns,

  to in total you to wave fists... Would be not present to stay at home, the father with mother

  to please...

  The wolfhound kept silent. Blood at last calmed down; it carefully cleaned

  nostril and just in case tired out inside a fresh rag. If not really

  to look narrowly, from outside and you will not notice. The nurse carried away a bowl and

  towel. The wolfhound got up, and here the knesinka noticed the chain armor which was seen

  from under a cover.

  - It what for? - she was surprised. - From whom? Remove, people kind

  will ridicule. Absolutely, will tell, mind went crazy...

  Speaking so, it slightly reddened, and the Wolfhound understood that leisure

  chatter after all touched it, Honestly, what will only not be told sharp on

  language galiradets, having noticed at a favourite knesinka of the bodyguard-venna,

  equipped, precisely now in fight! Still, will laugh, a helmet would fasten. It is possible

  to think, three times a day attack it! The wolfhound undid a belt and

  pulled down from itself a cover, then and a chain armor.

  - Put here, - the knesinka told. - Let's return, you will take away.

  - Efforts to you because of me, madam, - the Wolfhound told. Knesinka only

  waved a hand:

  - It seems in a stable, I to the groom ordered a horse to you what it is necessary to pick up.

  The wolfhound bowed and left.

  When the suite began to gather, he noticed among rusogolovy

  solvenn of swarty dark halisunets, portly and dressed at all not

  in a military way. The wolfhound wanted to learn who is such, but here just

  appeared It is abrupt, and veins approached it at once.

  - Hi, the voivode, - he told Right. - It is advisable to Peremolvitsya.

  - About what? - asked It is abrupt discontentedly. The wolfhound recalled him slightly in

  from the others also told the party:

  - I want to ask you, the voivode... When you get up at a chair of madam,

  keep one step further to the right, than you usually stand.

  - What?. - darkening the person, began to roar It is abrupt.

  - Wait a moment to be angry, - the Wolfhound it is conciliatory raised a palm. Then

  began to draw on the earth a boot sock. - Watch, here a chair

  monarchesses. I will get up here that to see everything, but also on eyes especially not

  to climb. If you slightly are removed, it will be more convenient to me.

  At the boyar moustaches began to move:

  - And you went, the freeloader...

  The wolfhound remembered the comparison which dawned on him recently and quietly answered:

  - I am a dog sentry, the voivode. Where I will lay down, there and all right if only guarded.

  He already finished speaking to the boyar in a back.

  Thick halisunets Illad was a doctor. He got accustomed in fortress still

  since children's illnesses of a knesinka, still used it on a measure

  also considered need an indispensable debt to accompany Elen

  To Gluzdovn on all departures like today's.

  - Madam is sick with something? - the Wolfhound pricked up the ears. Knesinka looked

  healthy and strong, but you never know...

  - What you ask about! - Illad was indignant. - As it is not a shame to you!


  - It is not a shame, - the Wolfhound told. - If madam is sick, I owe it

  nobility. I protect it.

  - Madam stays in good health, and yes will keep her Lunar Sky

  those ninety nine more years, - having pursed lips, halisunets answered.

  - Then why... - without having thought there began a Wolfhound, but the doctor annoyancely

  set from place to place a painted leather box and interrupted:

  - Then, why and you! Only from me, unlike you, sometimes

  there is a sense!

  The groom Spel prepared for the Wolfhound of very good horse. It was large

  gray stallion of fighting segvansky breed. Rough legged, unperturbably

  quiet, such horses seemed sluggish and rather heavy, but were

  are capable on the first sign to rapid and powerful breakthroughs and in addition

  were famous for comprehension. That is just the fact that it is necessary. Appeasable horse

  took from a palm purposely the laid-up top crust, died in a face and it was rubbed by a forehead

  about a shoulder vein. Here also got on. The wolfhound clapped a horse on mighty

  to brawny neck, took by the bridle and led outside, seen off

  approving look of the servant.

  When saddled, the Wolfhound wanted to help a knesinka of Elen -

  the monarchess dressed in a long dress went by a horse sideways, opiry

  both legs on a special plate, - but the boyar Krut, just without having pushed away

  the bodyguard, stepped by and itself lifted "daughter" in a saddle. There is a Wolfhound

  it ozlitsya and resolved that after arrival on the square will rise where

  will consider it necessary, and let Right makes of itself a laughing-stock if it is sick

  hunting. But the old boyar, having easily jumped on black, furiously

  looked back to the bodyguard and pushed a horse with heels, forcing it

  to recede from a white mare of a knesinka, and at the Wolfhound felt better at once on

  heart.

  Former skills were remembered by itself. As soon as left for gate,

  the attentive look of the Wolfhound a grasp slid on roofs, on tops

  strong timbered fences, on persons of the galiradets who left

  to greet the monarchess. How many repeated to it that supposedly

  the stranger, especially the will not begin to attempt upon it, the Wolfhound at all

  was on the lookout. And, generally speaking, without chain armor felt naked.

  Once he watched how protected governors in big

  cities of Halisuna and Sakkarema. If it happened to these lords to leave to

  to the people, on all roofs placed the shooters driving an arrow in

  перстенек for two hundred steps. Also instructed at the slightest suspicion

  to lower a bowstring without excess thoughts. And among servants there is a good few

  always there were disguised guards... And the people knew everything and perceived everything as

  due. Here not that. To act this way here meant fatally to offend

  galiradets. One him to it, maybe, still will be forgiven...

  Here also think, the bodyguard how to behave that also a knesinka

  to protect, and with the city not to quarrel her...

  At Volkodav Square threw reins to the servant (that mechanically picked up them

  and only then wondered why a vein most not to take away the

  horse, and at the same time and seigniorial) and at once rose beside a knesinka, behind right

  shoulder. The boyar Krut, snuffling and biting gray-haired moustaches, went slightly ahead and

  more to the right. The wolfhound with gratitude noted that the old soldier sharp-sightedly

  surveyed that part of a circle which it could not see. Luchezar-Levy walked

  on the other hand. It seems, he decided to behave with the Wolfhound only

  in the way which to it remained; in general not to notice it. On extreme

  to measure, in public.

  Having bowed to the people, the knesinka of Elen fell to an ancient chair.

  Sang a silver horn, and the Wolfhound fixed the eyes on the first

  the approached merchant. It was tall, mighty put, black as soot

  monomatanets whose reed ships moored at pier before

  dawn. The merchant was dressed in a long-skirted yellow-red attire,

  edged by speckled fur; at it in the homeland it was much warmer in the winter,

  than in Galirada in the summer. The black perfectly spoke on-solvennski and held

  the speech, without tolmach. It brought on the bargaining a tree - black, yellow and

  tinctorial, - and also ivory and twenty three black diamonds. Two

  such diamond lay in beautiful wooden caskets which it brought

  to knesinka of Elen. That already pulled out a round wooden label to hand

  to it as a sign of permission to trade, but here monomatanets loudly slapped in

  pink palms, and two servants carefully took out a high basket forward,

  weaved out of a chubby local cane. The merchant grew stout in a smile, shining

  dazzling teeth, and, having removed a striped cover, started in a basket

  long hands. Then became straight and stretched to a knesinka a clay pot. In

  pot the bush all covered with white snowflakes sat an ordinary-looking look

  small flowers. Probably, under the local sun to a bush it was cold: it

  covered a big glass bubble, not differently, blown purposely for the sake of it

  case. Monomatantsa not without reason were famous as skillful glass makers...

  The ruler of the big and rich city in a trice forgot everyone

  importance. She threw up the hands and fluttered out from a chair as if most

  the ordinary girl whom the kind friend indulged with poppy gingerbread.

  - Oh, Shanaka-sao! Sanibakati of a larimb... It meant - here pleased,

  so pleased. It appears, she spoke on-monomatanski not worse, than the merchant

  Shanaka - on-solvennski. And, seemingly, fostered a garden from any overseas

  greens. Not movably standing Wolfhound hardly considerably strained: huge

  the black gave a pot with a bush to servants and friendly embraced run up

  knesinka.

  - This is my son, Gluzdovna, purposely for you found. Two days climbed!

  The smile Gore loves much, it is a lot of sun and... e-e-e... that birds

  drop!

  It had a loud voice. In the crowd which met to take a look, was heard

  laughter.

  After monomatanets stepped veins from a genus of the Titmouse into the outspread carpet.

  The wolfhound felt it just the same prickly look, as all

  the others. Venn bowed to a knesinka the black sables well-known

  silvery foxes and big to the qadi of cucumbers which his tribe was able to do

  to salt absolutely especially, to all neighbors on opprobium. On

  to opinion of the Wolfhound, the smell from a tub went marvelous. Out of the corner of the eye he noticed how

  Luchezar wrinkled a thin nose.

  Time went. Trade guests replaced each other and left, is proud bearing

  treasured labels. Knesinka Elen for everyone found the kind word, and

  The wolfhound noted that she with many, not with one Shanaka, talked on

  their native languages. It is clear, it flattered merchants. Also induced them to arrive

  still yes with itself to allure others.

  The bright morning sun shone the Wolfhound in the right eye. From long

  standings on one place began to grow heavy legs. It became slightly

  to rock from a heel on a sock, dispersing blood. He saw that a knesinka

  it was happy with rich gifts. Gifts will carry in fortress, one -

  in a treasury, others - on kitchen, and
use then as it is necessary. On

  life and awards to a brave team, on repair of kromovy walls, on weapon and

  armor for distribution to city ratnik, happen suddenly to be at war...

  Midday approached. The wolfhound again envied gapers from

  local, to manumissions to stand or leave, and was glad to the fact that series of merchants

  ran low.

  Penultimate the young native of far left to bow to a knesinka

  Sho-Sitayna, copper-faced, with a long tail light, precisely tow, a hair and

  slanting blue eyes. Its country lay overseas, further away

  Arrantiada, was also famous for the remarkable herds grazed in vast

  steppes. There did not build the big ships, and this sho-sitaynets, one of

  the first in Galirada, the desperate solvennsky seaman brought here. Wolfhound

  saw how the knesinka marked something on waxed dosochke-Caere. Probably,

  decided to award an enterprising korabelshchik.

  It had juniper Tsera, with a beautiful carved pattern from

  the bound stalks on other party. The wolfhound made out it therefore

  that it held a dosochka on a lap, a forehead from the sun down. To Caere on

  silk twisted cord it was suspended wrote - bone, with navershiy in

  type of a rake for deleting of the spoiled letters.

  Sho-sitaynets, of course, did not know language, and helped it hired толмач.

  The benefit of the people able to speak various adverbs and wishing subjects

  to earn, in Galirada there was much. An only week ago, looking for works,

  The wolfhound itself also from despair thought to go to tolmach, but soon

  gave up. A snout did not leave, explained to it.

  For some reason his look continually came back to the person translating

  for the young merchant. It was the man what in any crowd from hundred hundred:

  low, reddish, uncertain age (anything from thirty

  to fifty), with the features some greased, not memorable.

  Such with identical success will descend both for a segvan, and for a velkh, and for

  solvenna. Perhaps, for this reason the Wolfhound loving the nobility, with whom

  deals, looked narrowly at it more attentively. Something confused him in

  this person, but here that?. His clothes?. Having seen enough on very

  floridly putting on galiradets, especially after the meeting with that old man on

  the sea coast, the Wolfhound would hardly be surprised even to sakkaremsky trousers

  at мономатанскйх sandals. No, not that. Reddish small was dressed quite