The Mist and the Lightning. Part 13 - стр. 10
“It will be good,” Nikto so inhumanly “smiled”, exposing the edges of the fangs, bent to Kors’ hand holding a filled syringe in his black fingers and slightly at an angle putting the needle to the white clean skin. He carefully punctured skin, piercing it with the sharp end of the needle and damaging the wall of the blood vessel. Bright scarlet blood swirled behind the glass, mixing with the substance. Nikto slowly pushed on the piston, injecting a foreign mixture into Kors’ blood. Verniy relaxed the cord. From the fact that the unclean one touched him with his furry paw, Kors involuntarily shrank. The demon and his dog touched him and performed unacceptable actions with his body. Kors felt defiled and already regretted letting them do it.
But suddenly everything passed, and he was released. This difference between the previous nervous state, full of tension and fatigue, and the current one, was so palpable, as if Nikto had not a syringe in his hands, but a magic wand and he waved it and – wow! Just a moment ago Kors felt so dreary and bad, but now he felt so good! Kors didn’t expect such a sharp transition, for some reason he thought that he had to wait and maybe after a while he would feel some slight relief. But not that it would be like this! Fast, magical, wonderful! And Nikto, seeing his face, laughed:
“Well? Does it hurt?”
“No. Only very slightly at the beginning when you pierced.”
Kors felt relieved, nervous exhaustion was gone, and interest in life reappeared. Yes, that was truly a “restorative”! Verniy walked away from them, he took the bloody sword of Nikto and went with him to the adjacent room.
“Is your sword the sword of the unclean?”
“Yes.”
“Where did you get it here? Have the unclean ones brought it?”
“Yes. When Wolf arrested me in Lower, they disarmed me and threw everything away. Arel handed over Power and my weapon to the unclean Borgan, and he then passed them on to Zaf.”
“It is beautiful, it is clear that it is expensive. Does your sword have a name?”
“No, no, I'm bad with coming up with names.”
“However, you named your horse and habir beautifully.”
“Really?” Nikto was surprised.
“Yes. A bit pompous, but in general beautiful.”
“But I have more than one sword, actually. I happen to call a weapon in conversation by the name of the one who made it. The sword of Lumin or Ridiger for example.”
“So many say.”
“I don’t invent separate names.”
“I was amazed today by how you managed to compensate for your disability.”
“What?”
“You got used to it. You fight very well. Sometimes you let the enemy get too close, but in general…”
Nikto just chuckled. Kors watched as he quickly wrapped a wide strip of black fabric around his wrist and put a high leather bracelet on top, how easily he worked with his left hand, tightening the lacing.
“I remember now your steel bracelets,” said Kors.
“Yes. You didn't return them to me. And the rings. And hairpins. All my jewelry has been fucked up by you, Kors.”
“I took off your rings because I wanted you to see the tattoos on your fingers.”
“Do you think I didn't understand it?”
“I have everything, all your things. Also the chain with the ring.”
“Well, this is the ring of your Iness, keep it to yourself.”
“Thank you. I will leave the ring, and I will give the rest to you when we return to the Black City.”