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Название книги: Cinnabar Shadows
Автор(ы): Lynn Abbey
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Cinnabar-Shadows-199198.html
Dark Sun, Chronicles of Athas, Book 04This book is dedicated to Lonnie Loy my accountant
Chapter One
Urik.Viewed through the eye of a soaring kes'trekel, the walled city was a vast sulphur carbuncle rising
slowly out of a green plain. Towers, walls, and roofs shimmered red, gold, and amber, as if the city-state
itself were afire in the steeply slanted light of a dying afternoon. But the flames were only the reflections of
the sun's bloody disk as it sank in the west: an everyday miracle, little noticed by the creatures great and
small, soaring or crawling, that dwelt in Urik's purview.Roads like veins of gold traced from city walls to smaller eruptions in the fertile plain. Silver arteries
wove through the patchwork fields that depended on that burden of water as Urik depended on the fields
themselves. Beyond the ancient network of irrigation channels, the green plain faded rapidly to dusty,
barren badlands that stretched endlessly in all directions except the northwest, where the dirty haze of
Название книги: Cinnabar Shadows
Автор(ы): Lynn Abbey
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Cinnabar-Shadows-199198.html
Dark Sun, Chronicles of Athas, Book 04This book is dedicated to Lonnie Loy my accountant
Chapter One
Urik.Viewed through the eye of a soaring kes'trekel, the walled city was a vast sulphur carbuncle rising
slowly out of a green plain. Towers, walls, and roofs shimmered red, gold, and amber, as if the city-state
itself were afire in the steeply slanted light of a dying afternoon. But the flames were only the reflections of
the sun's bloody disk as it sank in the west: an everyday miracle, little noticed by the creatures great and
small, soaring or crawling, that dwelt in Urik's purview.Roads like veins of gold traced from city walls to smaller eruptions in the fertile plain. Silver arteries
wove through the patchwork fields that depended on that burden of water as Urik depended on the fields
themselves. Beyond the ancient network of irrigation channels, the green plain faded rapidly to dusty,
barren badlands that stretched endlessly in all directions except the northwest, where the dirty haze of
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