标题: 《Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum 》作者:- Pratchett_ Terry【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-10 20:34 标题: 《Discworld 23 - Carpe Jugulum 》作者:- Pratchett_ Terry【 Carpe Jugulum – Discworld 23 By Terry Pratchett Through the shredded black clouds a fire moved like a dying star falling back to earth-the earth that is of the Discworld--but unlike any star had ever done before it sometimes managed to steer its fall sometimes risingsometimes twisting but inevitably heading down.Snow glowed briefly on the mountain slopes when it crackled overhead.Under it the land itself started to fall away. The fire was reflected off walls of blue ice as the lightdropped into the beginnings of a canyon and thundered now through its twists and turns.The light snapped off. Something still glided down the moonlit ribbon between the rocks.It shot out of the canyon at the top of a cliff where meltwater from a glacier plunged down into a distantpool.Against all reason there was a valley here or a network of valleys clinging to the edge of the mountainsbefore the long fall to the plains. A small lake gleamed in the warmer air. There were forests. There weretiny fields like a patchwork quilt thrown across the rocks.The wind had died. The air was warmer.The shadow began to circle.Far below unheeded and unheeding something else was entering this little handful of valleys. It was hardto see exactly what it was furze rippled heather rustled as if a very large army made of very smallcreatures was moving with one purpose.The shadow reached a flat rock that offered a magnificent view of the fields and wood below and therethe army came out from among the roots. It was made up of very small blue men some wearing pointyblue caps but most of them with their red hair uncovered. They carried swords. None of them