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Když jsem se probudil, nacházel jsem se v nějaké tmavé místnosti a miloval se s dámou, kterou jsem v životě neviděl. Život dokáže tropit všelijaké podivnosti. Někdy i příjemné. Nenalezl jsem v sobě vůli tu příjemnou činnost přerušit, a tak jsem v ní pokračoval dál, a ona také, až jsme dospěli do okamžiku náhlého dávání a braní, onoho okamžiku harmonie a klidu. / Udělal jsem levou rukou gesto a nad našimi hlavami se rozzářilo malé světélko. Měla dlou…

The land was known as Avernus, and the assembled troops were not quite men. I reviewed them the following morning, walking behind Bleys. They were all of them around seven feet in height, had very red skins and little hair, catlike eyes, and six-digited hands and feet. They wore garments that looked as light as silk, but were woven of something else and were mainly gray or blue in color. Each bore two short blades, hooked at the end. Their ears w…

The wagon creaked, monotonously, and the sun was already well into the west, though it still poured hot streams of daylight upon us. Back among the cases, Ganelon snored, and I envied him his noisy occupation. He had been sleeping for several hours, and this was my third day without rest. / We were perhaps fifteen miles out of the city, and heading into the northeast. Doyle had not had my order completely ready, but Ganelon and I had persuaded him t…

Out of every life a little blood must spill. Unfortunately, it was my turn again, and it felt like more than a little. I was lying, doubled up, on my right side, both arms clutching at my middle. I was wet, and every now and then something trickled along the creases of my belly. Front, lower left, just above the beltline, I felt like a casually opened envelope. These were my first sensations as consciousness came around again. And my first though…

I kept the light away from my face, kept my voice low. / „Not quite,“ I said. „Not quite.“ / He sighed. / „You remain unconvinced.“ / He looked forward and cocked his head, peering down at me. / „Why must you spoil things?“ he said. / „I’ve spoiled nothing.“ / He lowered the lamp. I turned my head again, but he finally got a good look at my face. He laughed. / „Funny. Funny, funny, funny,“ he said. „you come as the young Lord Corwin, thinking to sway me with family sen…

A bowl of cotton candy. / Having traversed the pass, I regarded the valley that lay before me. At least, I assumed that it was a valley. I could see nothing below its cover of cloud/mist/fog. / In the sky, one of the red streaks was turning yellow; another, green. I was slightly heartened by this, as the sky had behaved in a somewhat similar fashion when I had visited the edge of things, across from the Courts of Chaos. / I hitched up my pack and began hi…