alex_hohulya: переводы

→I took in a breath and let it out. Then I said, “There’s some stuff I gotta tell you.”

→Daniel’s eyes fixed on me, more yellow than brown, anxious and warning at the same time.

→“Did something happen at the police station? How come your partner didn’t come up? I saw him as well—he stood in the doorway for a long time.”

→“Hi,” I said, short and awkward because I couldn’t answer the question.

→“There you are!” she said, bouncing a little. “You got here ages ago! What were you two talking about down there?”

→No wonder Morgana looked like a goth princess most of the time. She’d probably caught it from the house as much as from her nightmare.

→“I’ll tell her what I need to tell her,” I told him, and went up the stairs ahead of him. They still echoed as though the house was empty, a booming of loneliness I’d never liked, and even Daniel’s footsteps seemed to blend with mine.

→“What a surprise,” I said. Everything I’d heard about Behind was that it was savage and cruel. Even the brief experiences I’d had there had been horrible. The superiority I’d felt from most Behindkind toward humans was irritating like that—what was the point in being supposedly more intelligent or stronger than humans when there was no kindness or compassion with it? What was better about being more intelligent if you were also more cruel? What was the point in being more logical and unemotional if that just made you a psychopath?

→“Last time everyone died, even the harbinger, and the king just kept reigning. There was a lot of talk that he’d done the killing himself.”

→“He already knows,” Daniel said. “He knows the signs. He probably knows ’em better than most people: he was around last time this happened.”

→I had my phone out before I realised it, with the instinctive thought that I should warn Zero.

→“I said that they wouldn’t try to kill the Troika. If they want to go after Zero as an heirling, that’s a different thing. They’d have to think the risk was worth it, though.”

→“Nah. It just…happens a lot. Unless someone finds out who the favourite is and kills them, anyway. So if there is really a harbinger out there, and the Family or Upper Management knows who they are and who they’ve been hanging around, a few more bodies might show up soon.”

→She was waiting for us when we came through the door

→“All right,” he said. “But be careful what you say.”

→“Yeah,” I said. “Just…flaming tired. I’d better go up and see Morgana.”

→Daniel, frowning, asked, “You okay, Pet?”

→“What happened last time?”

→“You just said it was too dangerous for them to try and kill Zero.”

→“What, the harbinger picks the next leader?” I hadn’t gotten that impression from Athelas at all.