Blood of the Fold tsot-3
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“That’s what I always say,” the man with the pipe said. “You don’t see fine workmanship anymore.”
Zedd snapped the collar back around his neck. “No, you don’t.”
“I saw an odd cloud today,” a hollow-cheeked man to the other side said. “Strange cloud. Snakelike it was. Wriggled in the sky, sometimes.”
Zedd leaned in and lowered his voice. “You saw it, then.”
They all leaned in. “What’s it mean, Ruben?” one whispered.
He looked from eye to eye. “Some say it’s a tracer cloud, hooked on a man by a wizard.” Zedd was satisfied by the gasps.
“What for?” the heavyset man asked, the whites of his eyes showing all around.
Zedd made a show of looking about at the other tables before he spoke. “To track him, and know where he goes.”
“Wouldn’t he see such a cloud, all snakelike and all?”
“There’s the trick to it, I’m told,” Zedd whispered as he used his fork to demonstrate. “It points down at the man followed, so all he would see is a tiny dot, kind of like looking at the tip of a cane. But those off to the side see the whole of the cane.”
The men aahed and leaned back with this news, digesting it as Zedd dug into the roasted duck.
“Do you know about these winds of change?” one finally asked. “And about this new Lord Rahl?”
“Wouldn’t be a cloud reader to kings if I didn’t.” Zedd brandished his fork. “It’s a mighty good tale, if you gentlemen have a mind to hear it.”
They all leaned in again.
“It all started before, in the ancient war,” Zedd began, “when were created the ones called dream walkers.”
FB2 document info
Document ID: ooo-exporttofb21-200814194952
Document version: 1.4
Document creation date: 2008-01-04
Created using: FB Editor v2.0, FictionBook Editor Release 2.6, AlReader2 software
Document authors :
Cherckes
olimo
Document history:
v 1.1: preliminary reading by Cherckes
v 1.2: quotes, ellipses, hyphens, repairing missing parts, dedication, proofreading by olimo
v. 1.3: the series name change to The Sword of Truth by olimo, 2011
v. 1.4: a little proofread by olimo, 2013
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