Asprin, Robert - Thieves World 06 by Asprin Robert

Author:Asprin, Robert [Asprin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-30T02:50:00+00:00

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caring. Up the stairs, back into the circle-cutting the knot to let himself in, sealing it shut again behind him. He sat down on the vacant pediment amid the

rubble and began to read. It was all here, much as he remembered it, with the

little thumbnail sketch of the diagram to be drawn inside the circle, and the rite itself. Part in a very old Ilsig indeed, part in the vernacular. Simple words, but oh, the power in them. Harran's heart began to hammer.

Something moaned, and Harran started-then realized it was only the wind,

building now to such a crescendo that he could hear it even inside the temple's

thick stone. Good, he thought, picking up the piece of bitumen again and rising

to his feet, let it storm. Let them think that something's about to happen. For it is!

He set to work. The diagram was complex, seemingly a picture of some kind of

geometrical solid, though one in which the number of sides seemed to change each

time one counted them. The finished diagram made an uneasy flickering in the

mind, a feeling that got worse as Harran started setting the necessary runes and

words into the pattern's angles. Then came the salt, cast to the cardinal points with the usual purifacatory rhyme; and the wheat-two grains at the primary

point, four at the next, eight at the one after that, and so on around the seven. Harran chuckled a little, light-headed with excitement. That particular

symbol of plenitude had always been a joke among the student priests; a sixty

-four point pattern would have emptied every granary in the world.

Nothing

left now but the wine, the knife, the mandrake, the hand....

The wind was whining through the pillars outside like a dog that wanted in.

Harran shivered. It's the cold, he thought, and then swallowed again and silently took it back; to lie during a spell could be fatal. He went to the diagram's heart, feeling as he went the small uncomfortable jolts of power that

came of passing over it. Forces besides his were moving tonight, lending what he

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