Darkwar 2 - Into a Dark Realm by Raymond E Feist

Author:Raymond E Feist [Raymond E Feist]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-07-25T23:00:00+00:00

Pug shrugged. 'Perhaps, perhaps not. I found the elf-queen to be beautiful by any standard, yet it was not a genuine physical yearning; but Tomas was smitten long before he transformed into what he is today.

'Maybe it has something to do with the changes we are subjecting ourselves to, or maybe it is merely a case of you having a more encompassing view of beauty than your father.'

Magnus said, 'Perhaps. I wonder who she might be. Were we in Kesh, I would think she was a member of the nobility or a minor royal. In Krondor, a courtesan to some man of wealth.' He shook his head in resignation. 'Here? Can we learn enough about the Dasati in ... anything approaching a reasonable time to survive a visit to their world?'

Pug sighed. 'I think I can say with some conviction we will, but as to how I come to believe that ...' Once again he wondered about telling his son about the messages from the future. 'Let us say I believe this journey is less dangerous than it looks.'

Magnus was silent for a minute, then he said, 'You have to stop treating me like your son, Father. I am, and have been for years, your most gifted student. I am nearly as powerful as you or Mother in several skills, and I suspect I may some day outstrip you both. I know you're trying to protect me—'

Pug cut him off. 'If I was trying to protect you, Magnus, I'd have left you back on the island with your mother and brother.' He looked around, as if trying to frame his thoughts and choose his words carefully.

'Don't ever claim that I'm trying to protect you, Magnus. I've kept silent a dozen or more times when you've gone in harm's way and every fibre in me screamed to send someone else. You may be a father some day and when you are, you'll understand what it is I'm saying. If I merely wanted you to be safe, you wouldn't be here.

'You lost a brother and sister you never knew, but I lost children I loved as dearly as I love you and Caleb.'

Magnus stood with his arms crossed and stared down at him, and for an instant Pug saw his wife in his son, both in his stance and expression. At last Magnus sighed. He looked Pug in the eye and said, 'I'm sorry, Father.'

'Don't be,' said Pug, gripping his arm. 'I appreciate your frustration. There isn't a day that goes by when I don't recall my own as I grew into my power, and I will remind you that your growth has been far more easy than my own.'

Magnus smiled warmly. 'I realize that.' He knew that his father had struggled while training under his original mentor, the old Lesser Path magician Kulgan, because at that stage in his life, Pug had been a natural adept of the Greater Path, a distinction which was no longer significant, but had very much been so when he was a boy.

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