Reedle Откройте в мобильном приложении
Понятно
Понятно
Для того чтобы воспользоваться закладками, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Отмена
Kawahara
s
voice
came
through
faintly
.
She
must
be
in
the
other
room
,
beyond
the
arch
.
"
They
coming
?
"
Trepp
s
face
stayed
impassive
.
Her
eyes
lifted
from
me
.
"
Yeah
,
"
she
said
loudly
.
"
Be
here
in
a
couple
of
minutes
.
"
I
was
coming
back
.
Something
was
forcing
my
nerves
back
into
sparking
,
fizzing
life
.
I
could
feel
the
shakes
setting
in
,
and
with
them
a
soupy
,
suffocating
quality
to
the
air
in
my
lungs
that
meant
the
betathanatine
crash
was
coming
on
ahead
of
schedule
.
My
limbs
were
moulded
in
lead
and
my
hands
felt
as
if
I
was
wearing
thick
cotton
gloves
with
a
low
electric
current
fizzing
through
them
.
I
was
in
no
condition
for
a
fight
.
Отключить рекламу
My
left
hand
was
folded
under
me
,
flattened
to
the
floor
by
the
weight
of
my
body
.
My
right
trailed
out
at
an
awkward
side
angle
.
It
didn
t
feel
as
if
my
legs
would
do
much
more
than
hold
me
up
.
My
options
were
limited
.
"
Right
then
.
"
I
felt
Kawahara
s
hand
on
my
shoulder
,
pulling
me
onto
my
back
like
a
fish
for
gutting
.
Her
face
was
masked
in
concentration
and
there
was
a
pair
of
needle
-
nosed
pliers
in
her
other
hand
.
She
knelt
astride
my
chest
and
spread
the
lids
of
my
left
eye
with
her
fingers
.
I
forced
down
the
urge
to
blink
,
held
myself
immobile
.
The
pliers
came
down
,
jaws
poised
a
half
centimetre
apart
.
I
tensed
the
muscles
in
my
forearm
,
and
the
neural
spring
harness
delivered
the
Tebbit
knife
into
my
hand
.
Отключить рекламу
I
slashed
sideways
.
I
was
aiming
for
Kawahara
s
side
,
below
the
floating
ribs
,
but
the
combination
of
stun
shakes
and
betathanatine
crash
threw
me
off
and
the
knife
blade
sliced
into
her
left
arm
below
the
elbow
,
jarred
on
the
bone
and
bounced
off
.
Kawahara
yelled
and
released
her
grip
on
my
eye
.
The
pliers
plunged
down
,
off
course
,
hit
my
cheekbone
and
carved
a
trough
in
the
flesh
of
my
cheek
.
I
felt
the
pain
distantly
,
metal
snagging
tissue
.
Blood
spilled
down
into
my
eye
.
I
stabbed
again
,
weakly
,
but
this
time
Kawahara
twisted
astride
me
and
blocked
downward
with
her
injured
arm
.
She
yelled
again
and
my
fizzing
glove
grip
on
the
knife
slipped
.
The
haft
trickled
away
past
my
palm
and
the
weapon
was
gone
.
Summoning
all
my
remaining
energy
into
my
left
arm
,
I
hooked
a
savage
punch
up
from
the
floor
and
caught
Kawahara
on
the
temple
.
She
rolled
off
me
,
clutching
at
the
wound
in
her
arm
,
and
for
a
moment
I
thought
the
blade
had
gone
deep
enough
to
mark
her
with
the
C
-
381
coating
.
But
Sheila
Sorenson
had
told
me
that
the
cyanide
poisoning
would
do
its
work
in
the
time
it
takes
to
draw
a
couple
of
breaths
.
Kawahara
was
getting
up
.