KaryJ: переводы

→She headed down the jetty toward him, picking her way carefully over the big uneven rocks and wondering at first, 7s he all right But as she came near, Kit looked up over his shoulder at her with an idle expression. "Hey," he said.

→"Just a quick one," Nita said. "I hope."

→It took a few moments for her to hear the answer: Even with the Speech, there was no dropping instantly into a tree's time sense from human life speed. Not bad this time out... not bad at all, the tree said modestly. Going on assignment

→Her mother gave her a sidelong look. "Can't you just... you know..." She attempted to twitch her nose in the manner of a famous TV "witch" of years past, and failed to do anything much except look like a rabbit.

→"Your dad likes caraway, honey. Humor him."

→Nita's mother glanced up. "Harry, I thought you said you were going to oil that thing. It's driving me nuts."

→"It's Dairine's turn today," Nita said hurriedly, shrugging into the denim jacket she'd left over the chair earlier. "See ya later, Mom..." She kissed her mom, grabbed the manual from on top of her notebook, and headed out the door.

→Her mother's expression went suddenly wicked. "While we're on the subject "

→"No, seriously. It's just taking out the garbage, this one."

→Her mother gave her a thoughtful look. "You know what I'm going to say..." "'Be careful.' It's okay, Mom. This spell isn't anything dangerous." "I've heard that one before."

→"He does that, too. Even wizards have to pay the bills," Nita said. She got up and stretched. "Mom, I should get going."

→"Really," Nita's mother said, looking down at her grocery list again. "I thought he wrote things for TV."

→"Not all of them. Sometimes you have to build something completely new if there's no precedent spell to help you along. Then when you test the new spell out and it works okay, the manual picks it up and makes it available for other wizards to use. Most of what's in here originally came from other wizards, over a lot of years." She gave the wizard's manual a little nudge. "Some wizards don't do anything much but write spells and construct custom wizardries. Tom, for example."

→Her mother raised her eyebrows. "Doesn't it go the other way around I thought you got the spells out of the book in the first place."

→"In a moment. The manual's acquiring what I just did."

→She sighed as she picked up her copy of the wizard's manual and dropped it on top of her notebook. Her mother glanced over at her. "Finished "

→The only answer was louder singing, in a key that her father favored but few other human beings could have recognized. Nita hid her smile until her mother was sufficiently distracted, and then went back to her own business, making a few more notes on the clean page. After some minutes of not being able to think of anything to add, she finally closed the notebook and pushed it away. She'd done as much with the spell as she could do on paper. The rest of it was going to have to wait to be tested out in the real world.