Vlad Taltos - 09 Issola by Steven Brust

Author:Steven Brust [Brust, Steven]
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Vlad Taltos
ISBN: 9780812589177
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 2002-11-27T09:00:00+00:00

diet didn't feature anything that needed cooking? If not, had she gone off to arrange for

some culinary ensorcellment? Of all the myriad mysteries surrounding the Dark Lady of

Dzur Mountain, I knew that this one was going to bother me. Maybe I could bring myself

to ask her. Sometime when Lady Teldra wasn't around.

I drank my wine, and Sethra sat down next to me. "Let's see that arm," she said. I couldn't

show it to her because I couldn't move it, so I just shrugged my one good shoulder and

looked away. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see her holding it, rolling my sleeve back,

touching it; but I felt no sensation.

I said, "Evidently the nerves have been damaged, too; I can't feel your charming, cold,

undead fingers."

"Mmmmm," she said. Then, "Yes, it is nerve damage, not muscle damage." She continued

her inspection. I tried to think about other things without much success.

"Is it repairable?" I asked eventually, trying to keep my voice casual, as if I were asking if

a blunted dagger could be resharpened.

"I'm not sure," she said in much the same way. Bitch.

"Good wine," I told her. "Thanks."

She smiled as if sharing a joke with herself and said, "You are most welcome, Lord

Taltos."

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She set my arm back in my lap and said, "We'll have to see.”

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I nodded. No one spoke. I cleared my throat and said, "So, all right, what's the plan?"

13

WHILE IN THE CARE OF THE PHYSICKER

"It's too soon to talk about plans," said Morrolan. "I'm still trying to recover."

"Nonsense," I said. "It's never too soon to talk about plans. Making plans is one of the

great joys of my life. Sometimes, on alazy afternoon, I just sit around and make up plans.

I've often said—"

"Be quiet, Vlad."

"Feel better now, Boss?"

"A bit, Loiosh."

"You know, Morrolan," said Aliera. "He has a point. It wouldn't hurt any to start thinking

about how we're going to go after them."

"It's too soon to talk about plans," I said. "I'm still trying to recover."

Morrolan favored me with a disgusted look.

Sethra said, "Lady Teldra, I assume you will grace us with your company at table?"

"That is kind of you," said Teldra. "Yes, I should be delighted." For a moment that

confused me, until I remembered that she was Morrolan's servant, which fact had

somehow gotten lost in the last few days.

"Good," said Sethra.

"Let me see that arm," said Aliera abruptly. She came over and knelt down next to me,

picked up my arm, and stared at it. "Nerve damage can sometimes be repaired," she said

after a moment.

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"Yes," said Sethra. "Sometimes, depending on the nature of the damage. In this case, I

can't quite tell what they did." This of course, made me feel great. What is it about

physickers, or sorcerers acting as physickers, that makes them talk about the sick guy as if

he weren't in the room?

Aliera turned to Verra and said, "Mother? Do you know how it works?"

"The one I remember worked on the muscle, not the nerve.

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