Unknown - Unknown (2) by Unknown (2)

Unknown - Unknown (2) by Unknown (2)

Author:Unknown (2)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-08-08T22:26:49+00:00


190

SILVERHAND

the library, but even the wisest of them had not understoo(

everything they read. They could only mimic the technique of a forgotten age.

Once it had been possible to restore the entire humai body, if the ancient texts were to be believed, rebuilding 1

piece by piece after the most horrendous damage.

The Scholar picked up his own fine bone writin, instrument and scrawled a quick note to himself W~

there ever a point when such creatures - an amalgam c flesh and metal - ceased being human? Search the texu Another quill snapped and Nanri lashed out with h switch, catching the boy across the tips of his flesH

fingers. Caeled shot him a look of such sudden, blaziri resentment that Nanri drew back. In that moment th Scholar saw in memory the image of a wild-haired kitche boy who had been sold into slavery in Baddalaux kitchens more then sixty cycles ago. A boy seething wit resentment, anxious to settle scores.

“Put down the quill, boy,” Nanri said softly, “and let rr see your work. Pass me the sheet with your left hand,” I added.

Caeled’s metal fingers closed over the flimsy sheet ar handed it across the desk. Nanri held it up to the hgb The kenaf was torn where Caeled had cut through it wil the nib of the quill, but his metal fingers had not damagE

the delicate fibers.

“Does your hand bother you?”

“At night,” Caeled admitted, turning the hand pal.

upward. “It aches then.” Suddenly he chuckled. “La night I thought I felt a splinter under my nail.”

“Your brain is making the hand part of you. Broth Nazariel tells me you’ve made remarkable progress4n d past eight days. If only you could master your letters wi equal proficiency,” he added, sighing.



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