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Название книги: The Scourge of God
Автор(ы): S. Stirling
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Scourge-of-God-192204.html
PROLOGUE
THE NEMED (SACRED WOOD) CASCADE FOOTHILLS, WESTERN OREGONLUGHNASADH, AUGUST 1, CHANGE YEAR 23/2021 ADThe five women fell silent as they climbed single file on the nar-row woodland track, higher and higher through the long summer twilight, with the soft duff of the forest floor quiet beneath their sandals-or in one case, boot-heels. They were dressed alike in black hooded robes belted with tricolored cords. The long rowan staffs in their hands marked each as a High Priestess, and each was tipped with a symbol wrought in silver; Hecate's threefold Moon for Juniper Mackenzie and her fellow clanswomen Sumina and Melissa, Pythian Apollo's wolf for BD of the Kyklos, the snarling she-tiger of the Wild Huntress for Signe Havel, the Bearkiller regent.The air cooled, with night and with the height itself, dense with the scent of the resin the day's heat had baked out of the trees; the place they sought was three thousand feet above the valley floor. Stars appeared, glimpsed in fleeting instants am
Название книги: The Scourge of God
Автор(ы): S. Stirling
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Scourge-of-God-192204.html
PROLOGUE
THE NEMED (SACRED WOOD) CASCADE FOOTHILLS, WESTERN OREGONLUGHNASADH, AUGUST 1, CHANGE YEAR 23/2021 ADThe five women fell silent as they climbed single file on the nar-row woodland track, higher and higher through the long summer twilight, with the soft duff of the forest floor quiet beneath their sandals-or in one case, boot-heels. They were dressed alike in black hooded robes belted with tricolored cords. The long rowan staffs in their hands marked each as a High Priestess, and each was tipped with a symbol wrought in silver; Hecate's threefold Moon for Juniper Mackenzie and her fellow clanswomen Sumina and Melissa, Pythian Apollo's wolf for BD of the Kyklos, the snarling she-tiger of the Wild Huntress for Signe Havel, the Bearkiller regent.The air cooled, with night and with the height itself, dense with the scent of the resin the day's heat had baked out of the trees; the place they sought was three thousand feet above the valley floor. Stars appeared, glimpsed in fleeting instants am
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