Dreamers - 01 - The Elder Gods by David Eddings

Author:David Eddings [Eddings, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2011-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

LATTASH

1

Rabbit still had mixed feelings about the Kajak affair as Sorgan's fleet set sail from the harbor at Kweta. His sudden celebrity as 'the little fellow who helped Longbow that night' had given his ego quite a boost, there was no question about that. But celebrity was the last thing Rabbit really wanted. Inconspicuousness had been his goal since the day he first joined the crew of the Seagull. The standard Maag conviction that 'bigger is better' had made the pose fairly easy, and his mock simple-mindedness had convinced Sorgan and the others that a few easy tasks were about all he was good for. It had made his life less exhausting, and that was all that mattered.

The only significant task that had ever been laid on his shoulders had involved the Seagull's smithy, and that had worked out rather well. If he happened to be standing at his anvil tapping on a piece of iron with his hammer, Ox and Ham-Hand would find other sailors to attend to the more tedious chores.

He was required to stand watch, of course. No sailor can escape that task, and Rabbit much preferred night-watch when the captain was asleep. When things were going well, Rabbit could go for weeks on end without once seeing Sorgan.

That didn't particularly bother him.

Most sailors find the night-watch at sea unbearably tedious, but Rabbit had the stars for company, and once he had seen that they weren't always in the same place in the night sky, he even began to volunteer to stand watch at night. In time he came to realize that it wasn't just that the stars were moving. So was the Seagull, and the distance of certain stars above the horizon at certain times, in certain seasons, was a fair indication of the Seagull's location. The computation of distances was the next logical step.

When the current had seized the Seagull and swept her off to the Land of Dhrall, Rabbit had almost discarded his entire set of computations, but now that he knew that Zelana could alter things to suit her purposes, he dropped the term 'impossible'. When Zelana was involved, nothing was impossible.

Sorgan's fleet left the harbor at Kweta at first light on a blustery winter morning, and once they were at sea, the wind seemed almost to die. Then it came up again, but now it came out of the west. Most of the crew of the Seagull viewed the change of the wind as a stroke of good luck. Rabbit, however, was fairly certain that luck had nothing to do with it.

Despite the fact that it was winter now, Sorgan's fleet made good time, and they rounded the northern end of the Isle of Thurn after little more than two weeks at sea. Had the sky been clear, Rabbit might have been able to keep better track of their progress, but the clouds hid the stars from him.

He didn't think that was very nice at all.

'Does she really need to blot the

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