Elenium 1 : The Diamond Throne by David Eddings

Author:David Eddings [Eddings, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T23:00:00+00:00

The loading of Faran, Sephrenia's palfrey, and Kurik's stout gelding took place behind a screen of sailcloth Sorgi's sailors were ostensibly mending. Shortly before noon, Sparhawk and Kurik boarded the ship bound for Jiroch. They moved openly up the gangway, followed by Sephrenia, who carried Flute in her arms. Captain Mabin greeted them on the quarterdeck. 'Ah,' he grinned, 'here's our reluctant bridegroom. Why don't you and your friends walk around the deck until we sail? Give all the cousins plenty of chances to see you.' "I've had a few second thoughts about this, Captain Mabin,' Sparhawk said. "if the cousins hire a ship and follow - and if they catch up with you - it's going to be fairly obvious that I'm not on board.' 'Nobody's going to catch up with me, Master Cluff.' The captain laughed. "I've got the fastest ship on the Inner Sea. Besides, it's obvious that you don't know very much about seafaring etiquette. Nobody boards another man's ship at sea unless he's prepared for a fight. It's just not done.' 'Oh,' Sparhawk said. "I didn't know that. We'll stroll around the deck, then.

'Bridegroom?' Sephrenia murmured as they moved away from the captain. "It's a long story,' Sparhawk told her. 'There seem to be a fair number of these long stories cropping up lately. Someday we'll have to sit down so that you can tell them to me.' "Someday perhaps.' 'Flute,' Sephrenia said quite firmly, 'come down from there.' Sparhawk looked up. The little girl was halfway up a rope ladder stretching from the rail to the yardarm. She pouted just a bit, then did as she was told. 'You always know exactly where she is, don't you?' he asked

Sephrenia. 'Always,' she replied. The transfer from one ship to the other took place in mid-river some distance downstream from Lycien's wharves and was concealed by a great deal of activity on both ships. Captain Sorgi quickly bustled his passengers belowdecks to get them out of sight, and then the two ships proceeded sedately downriver, bobbing side by Side like two matrons returning home from church. 'We're passing the wharves of Madel,' Sorgi called down the companionway to them some short time later. 'Keep your face out of sight, Master Cluff, or I may have a deck full of your betrothed's cousins on my hands.' 'This is really making me curious, Sparhawk,' Sephrenia said. 'Couldn't you give me just the tiniest clue?' "I made up a story,' he shrugged. "It was lurid enough to seize the attention of a group of sailors.' 'Sparhawk's always been very good at making uP stories,' Kurik observed. 'He used to lie himself in and out of trouble regularly when he was a novice.' the squire was seated on a bunk with the drowsing flute nestled in his lap. 'You know,' he said quietly, "I never had a daughter. They smell better than little boys, don't they?' Sephrenia burst out laughing. 'Don't tell Aslade,' she cautioned. "She may decide to try for one.

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