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Название книги: Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy Part 3
Автор(ы): Terry Goodkind
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Confessor_-Chainfire-Trilogy-Part-3-199258.html
CHAPTER 1
For the second time that day, a woman stabbed Richard.Jolted fully awake by the shock of pain, he instantly seized her bony wrist, preventing her from ripping open his thigh. A dingy dress, buttoned all the way up to her throat, covered her gaunt figure. In the dim light of distant campfires Richard saw that the square of cloth draped over her head and knotted under her angular jaw looked to be made out of a scrap of frayed burlap.Despite her frail frame, her sunken cheeks, her stooped back, she had the glare of a predator. The woman who had stabbed him earlier that night had been heavier, and stronger. Her eyes, too, had burned with hate.The slender blade this woman wielded was smaller as well. While it made a painful puncture wound, had she sliced across his thigh muscle, as she'd apparently intended by the way she was holding the knife, it would have been far worse. The army of the Imperial Order did not bother to care for slaves with crippling injuries; the
Название книги: Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy Part 3
Автор(ы): Terry Goodkind
Жанр: Фэнтези
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Confessor_-Chainfire-Trilogy-Part-3-199258.html
CHAPTER 1
For the second time that day, a woman stabbed Richard.Jolted fully awake by the shock of pain, he instantly seized her bony wrist, preventing her from ripping open his thigh. A dingy dress, buttoned all the way up to her throat, covered her gaunt figure. In the dim light of distant campfires Richard saw that the square of cloth draped over her head and knotted under her angular jaw looked to be made out of a scrap of frayed burlap.Despite her frail frame, her sunken cheeks, her stooped back, she had the glare of a predator. The woman who had stabbed him earlier that night had been heavier, and stronger. Her eyes, too, had burned with hate.The slender blade this woman wielded was smaller as well. While it made a painful puncture wound, had she sliced across his thigh muscle, as she'd apparently intended by the way she was holding the knife, it would have been far worse. The army of the Imperial Order did not bother to care for slaves with crippling injuries; the
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