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Eilisha came to her senses because she was swimming somewhere. The body weakened, and the eyelids became heavy, heavy. It seemed to the girl that she was swinging in a cramped boat on the waves of the unhurried river Pereksha, which meandered in the meadows near her native village. But you can’t hear the splashing of the waves, you can’t smell the water ... When the novice opened her eyelids, she saw a disfigured face with an empty eye socket. Close, close. Ichthor! - What are you shaking? – black-haired healer carried her so easily, as if the girl weighed nothing. - Don't like it? “I... I...” she stammered incoherently. - You fell. I got a cold, apparently. Yes, and the colors have come, ”the cool voice of the mentor came from somewhere on the side. - Well, I found you in the corridor, otherwise I would have frosted over on the floor. Fell? Ah, yes... Eilisha remembered how dizzy she was, how she was tormented by chills. “I was going to the lesson…” the novice weakly tried to
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On one of the blizzard days of a student in the first month of winter, fate prepared a new test for her. As soon as the doctor ran into the tower, shaking off the snow from the casing and breathing on her chilled palms, Ichthor stunned her with the news: – Today, we will learn to deprive a person of life. From these terrible words, spoken with ordinary indifference, Eilisha froze. Naughty lips whispered of themselves: - I'm a healer. Not a killer. - And what will you do, healer, with those who cannot be saved, and you will not leave alive? the kref asked dryly. - How do you give an easy death? And to instant, without torment. Will you sing a lullaby?- I do not know. At home, every time I ran away from the yard when a bird or cattle was slaughtered. I was sick for a week afterwards, I could not see the meat. I… I… can't,” the girl backed away. “Everyone was laughing at me. They called it blessed. “They talked about it,” said the guard. But this is not a house. And, pushing the s
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“Well, quietly, quietly, why are you like a wild animal ...” the man grumbled, handing out vicious cuffs to the children pushing on a blanket that was spread over the frozen trunk of a fallen tree. “Look, you’ll start snatching bowls from each other. Well, calm down everyone! This commanding cry made the seven children quiet down. Even the smaller ones stopped making offended noises. They sat down, folding their cold hands in shabby mittens on their sharp knees. Worn beggarly skins, red noses and eyes shining with hunger and anticipation. Seven pairs of eyes. And everyone, without stopping, is watching how an emaciated woman with an exorbitantly large belly pours hot steaming out into old bowls ... Food! - Take it. Yes, don’t choke, don’t choke, that’s enough here, - and the woman with a sad smile looked at how the little boy of two springs greedily dipped her face into a spacious bowl. The man sat down on a hummock sticking out of a snowdrift. “Diven…” the woman began, but the p
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- What are you, what are you? – tightly hugging his beloved, the young man asked. She wanted to tell him about her fears, to ask him to be by his side, but inappropriately she completely remembered the animal eyes on a human face, remembered the predatory claws and death rattle, and escaped from her lips:“Tamir, if I were reborn as a walker, would you… be able to… kill me?” He looked surprised, but then laughed. “Stupid, you will never walk, I won’t let you,” he kissed the curly top of her head and began to cradle the girl like a child. This was not the answer Eilish was expecting. And I realized with bitterness: if something goes wrong - like Lesana, Tamir's hand will not tremble ... * * *Since that time, the healer apprentice seemed to have been replaced. The daughter of the Medenich family froze. With cold indifference, she did everything that the mentors ordered. There were no more refusals, questions, tears. They confidently cut the girl's hands of the body, washed the ab
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- Hold him! - Tamir, calm down. Take it easy! He didn't hear them. Didn't understand what they were saying. He rushed to the body prostrate in the snow, shaking off those who prevented him from moving from his shoulders. He wheezed from the tearing light pain, from a soundless scream stuck in his throat, from suffocation. Everything was purplish red before his eyes. And in this bloody veil, he saw only an awkwardly prostrate girl. Broken, mangled. - Klesh! Klesh, help! After that cry, the air around Tamir seemed to turn to stone. Don't move, don't rush. Like a bug frozen in resin. - Look at me. He moved his wild eyes, not understanding who was addressing him, not knowing why to obey him. - Look at me. The guy stared blindly. Kref of the warriors held him tightly by the shoulders: - Like this. Do you hear me? Tamir nodded heavily, slowly returning to his body, to his mind. - You're going to her now. Myself. You won't be held... - ... Kleskh! - someone resented his arbitrari
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I suppose the quiet woman found out that they drugged her with a decoction so that the child would be overthrown. The girl was already moaning, taking the wrong side of healing, and the act of the mentors completely crushed her. If they didn’t do meanness, you look, I would have remained alive. It was impossible to deprive her child, it is impossible! They thought they would save Dar, but they lost everything. And Mairiko, without taking her eyes off the floor, began to tell how she found out about Eilishina’s indolence, how she made her drunk with a decoction to throw it away, how she charmed ... “Looks like her Gift overcame our efforts... She broke the spell. I remembered. That's why it didn't last. I have no other interpretation. Head blackened face: “Ah, there are no other interpretations?” Why didn't you give her a tincture. AND? Why, when she suffered - did not voluntarily force the broth to drink? Didn't you intimidate more than death, so that she would snatch this jug wit
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Lesana was sitting on a bench with her legs up and staring at the wall. My thoughts were empty. Awareness of what had happened still could not break through the thickness of misunderstanding... It seemed as if what had happened was a dream. And the door is about to open, a curly-haired head will stick out into the bed, and a familiar voice will ask: “Lesana, what are you doing?” - Lesana. - AND? - she started up and only now saw Kleskh standing over her. Indifferent monster. How is he Tamira today ... Why is this with a guy? Why couldn't he have been allowed to grieve like a human being? And if he burst into tears, you won’t judge, tea, great grief. I didn't lose my mitten. Krefff, unaware of the pupil's thoughts, sank down beside him on a bench and said: “I’m leaving the Citadel today. I'll be back when, I don't know. But not before spring. You remain alone. Look, don't be stupid. Kref over you now Daren. Do you know him? The girl nodded, suddenly feeling infinitely alone. Here
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They left the Citadel by the way by which walkers were delivered to the fortress. The heavy door did not move easily - during the day the wind brought quite a lot of snow to the entrance. Leaning her shoulder against the sash, Lesana thought about how Tamir would go with his burden through loose snowdrifts. “Give it,” Ichthor held the guy by the shoulder. - You'll overstrain, we won't rest her without you. He obeyed. The healer took over the body and confidently stepped forward. The black trees rustled in the darkness, the cold air stabbed into his head as he breathed in, like an icy blade. Tamir was breathing convulsively, realizing that he wanted to burst into tears and... couldn't. Tears stuck in his throat, and the burning cold pushed them back into his chest. Lesana had never been to the quarries before, and didn't even really know where they were. Walked for a long time. The wind beat in the face, threw prickly snowflakes, but the three travelers got wet, pulling their legs o
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