Wandering Spark - Part 31
Lying on dry seaweed, Varan tried to remember everything he knew about magicians.
They sit in dungeons at long tables. They make imperial money, seals, credentials. Under the wooden chairs, wrapped around the carved legs lie the tails hidden from eyes... And once in seven years, a tail falls off...
Is it possible that all these seven years a magician doesn’t rise from his chair? Doesn’t sleep? Doesn’t go to the toilet?
Varan shook his head in a half-sleep state. What a nonsense is going in his head. Clearly, wizards don’t go to the toilet at all. And probably don’t eat... Don’t sleep with women...
Where do they come from? It is known that mages are born... But how are they born?
Varan had never seen an imperial magician on the Round Fang. Although many times looked from under the palm to the tower - the highest point of the island, a stone finger above the prince's palace. It was assumed that in the tower lives a magician, sent personally by the Emperor. They say that he's very old and never goes down. They say that he was standing on the balcony at night and sniffed the air, and he knew by smell only who is guilty and who is to blame. Most recently Varan’s father said that the magician, most likely, doesn’t exist at all. Round Fang is not such an important province to send a magician here. In the off-season, to be honest, Round Fang generally has no value – a forgotten hole on map of the Empire...
But chief judge Slug said that there is a magician. And Varan was inclined to believe the judge.
Tomorrow Varan will be led to the tower. And from there, most likely, to the capital on a flying ship or on a windams. Varan all his life dreamed of two things - to fly on a wingam and visit the capital. Now his desires will be fulfilled. But not the Emperor helped his in this, but Shuu. Curse Shuu, who slipped Varan this stupefying money with rainbow glow...
The morning was outside or evening, Nila either remember him or had already forgotten - Varan was asleep, and he dreamed of a frequent net laid over the spring on bottom crops, so that it wouldn’t be blown away by the stream.
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