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Автор: David Chandler
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demon flowed across the floor, the edges of its…

      Chapter Fifty-Two

      The blue-haired creature walked on its knuckles toward Malden and…

      Chapter Fifty-Three

      Cythera clutched her hands together, beseeching the dwarf one last…

      Chapter Fifty-Four

      Malden stepped carefully outside the door, watching the floor carefully…

      Chapter Fifty-Five

      Croy desperately needed to rest. Yet he would not, not…

      Part 4

      Interlude

      Chapter Fifty-Six

      Malden lifted the lantern high and scanned the rest of…

      Chapter Fifty-Seven

      “There!” one of the dwarves shouted.

      Chapter Fifty-Eight

      Malden’s head spun. Lights burst in the backs of his…

      Chapter Fifty-Nine

      Malden howled in anger and horror. He forgot all about…

      Chapter Sixty

      Outside the throne room, Mörget and Croy hid behind thick…

      Chapter Sixty-One

      Malden hurried forward through the red-shadowed streets of the dormitory…

      Chapter Sixty-Two

      The foundry offered a hundred good places to conceal Malden.

      Chapter Sixty-Three

      A cry went up immediately, and someone shouted “He has…

      Chapter Sixty-Four

      Croy signaled for Mörget to come forward. It looked like…

      Chapter Sixty-Five

      “Malden stood here, yes. He must have been under attack…

      Chapter Sixty-Six

      The female dwarf hurried ahead, while Mörget and Croy took…

      Chapter Sixty-Seven

      Malden and Cythera each took one of Slag’s arms, but…

      Chapter Sixty-Eight

      “I’m Balint, by the way,” the female dwarf announced, when…

      Chapter Sixty-Nine

      Croy barely noticed the brass lift. It was magical in…

      Chapter Seventy

      The elves took them down a crude flight of stairs…

      Part 5

      Interlude

      Chapter Seventy-One

      Once the Hieromagus had withdrawn, the revelers in the great…

      Chapter Seventy-Two

      The elves led them down the spiral staircase to a…

      Chapter Seventy-Three

      Eventually the light at the top of the stairs went…

      Chapter Seventy-Four

      Croy’s blood pounded in his temples. His fingers twitched and…

      Chapter Seventy-Five

      After Slag was taken away, the night passed without further…

      Chapter Seventy-Six

      “Good,” the Hieromagus said, sinking back on his couch once…

      Chapter Seventy-Seven

      Every elf Malden had seen had been beautiful—their graceful, exotic…

      Chapter Seventy-Eight

      Balint had led them to a great communal kitchen on…

      Chapter Seventy-Nine

      “Stop, please,” Cythera begged. “I feel I might burst!” She…

      Chapter Eighty

      “Eight hundred years ago,” Aethil told them, as they trooped…

      Chapter Eighty-One

      Ghostcutter sliced through the bones of a defleshed arm and…

      Chapter Eighty-Two

      The elfin children were as beautiful as their parents, and…

      Chapter Eighty-Three

      Perhaps discomfited by the story she’d told them, Aethil took…

      Chapter Eighty-Four

      Aethil led them down a long series of curving tunnels…

      Chapter Eighty-Five

      “Heave!” Balint called. Croy and Mörget hauled on the ropes…

      Chapter Eighty-Six

      On their way back to Aethil’s chambers, they were stopped…

      Chapter Eighty-Seven

      When Aethil returned, Slag lay slumped on the divan again,…

      Chapter Eighty-Eight

      Mörget slammed Dawnbringer against the side of a dwarven tomb.

      Chapter Eighty-Nine

      For a long while, Croy heard nothing but a voice…

      Chapter Ninety

      Cythera stretched upward on the balls of her feet to…

      Chapter Ninety-One

      The elves dragged Malden back to the gaol. It was…

      Chapter Ninety-Two

      They dragged Malden through their twisting stone tunnels, and brought…

      Chapter Ninety-Three

      “Not like—not this way—the thief doesn’t—doesn’t die like this! History—so…

      Chapter Ninety-Four

      Croy’s arms felt like they were being torn from their…

      Chapter Ninety-Five

      Malden moved slowly, watching always the little knife in Prestwicke’s…

      Chapter Ninety-Six

      Croy’s breath came in ragged pants. His eyes snapped open,…

      Chapter Ninety-Seven

      Prestwicke came at him again, and Malden had barely managed…

      Chapter Ninety-Eight

      When Malden was halfway to Cythera and Slag, the entire…

      Chapter Ninety-Nine

      “Croy! No!” someone shouted.

      Chapter One Hundred

      The danger wasn’t over. Behind them the grotto began to…

      Epilogue

      The water surged furiously, smashing its way back and forth

      Honour Among Thieves

      Chapter One

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Other Books by David Chandler

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Map

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      PROLOGUE