The Blacktongue Thief

U Kincha Na SHannaka, kak i u lyubogo predstavitelya naroda gal‘tov, chernyy yazyk. Eshche podrostkom Kinch, chtoby ego ne otpravili na voynu, postupil v shkolu Gil‘dii Berushchih, inache govorya — vorov, v kotoroy postig hitrye prestupnye remesla i dazhe priobrel koe-kakie magicheskie navyki. No za obuchenie neobhodimo rasplatit‘sya, poetomu Kinch sidit v zasade, chtoby ograbit‘ pervogo zhe cheloveka, kotoryy pokazhetsya na lesnoy doroge. Vot tol‘ko vovse ne bezobidnogo putnika predstoit emu vstretit‘. Gal‘va — zhenshchina-rycar‘, veteran Goblinskih voyn, prevoskhodnyy boec. I u nee est‘ taynoe oruzhie — korvid, ogromnaya boevaya ptica, spryatannaya v magicheskoy tatuirovke. Pobedit‘ etu zhenshchinu v skhvatke Kinchu ne udastsya. Zato u nego poyavitsya shans rasschitat‘sya s Gil‘diey, vypolniv ochen‘ strannoe poruchenie. Gal‘va derzhit put‘ v dalekoe korolevstvo Austrim, na kotoroe nedavno napala armiya velikanov. Kinch dolzhen budet soprovozhdat‘ ee, postaravshis‘ vteret‘sya v doverie, — i zhdat‘ dal‘neyshih rasporyazheniy. Vpervye na russkom!