Wizard at Large

Informationen zum Autor Terry Brooks Klappentext Questor Thews is only a semi-competent wizard! but when High Lord Ben Holiday and his love Willow need use of his powers! he tries to comply. He tries! all right! but he doesn't have all that much faith in himself--not since he turned a terrier into an imp. Still! he'll do what he can.... Ben Holiday sighed wearily and wished he were somewhere else besides where he was. He wished he were anywhere else.   He was in the garden room at Sterling Silver. The garden room was probably Ben Holiday’s favorite of all the many rooms at the castle. It was bright and airy. Flower boxes crisscrossed the tiled floor in dazzling swatches of color. Sunshine streamed through floor-length windows that ran the length of its southern wall, tiny motes of pollen dancing on the broad bands of light. The windows stood open and fragrant smells wafted in. The room looked out on the gardens proper, a maze of flower beds and bushes that spread their way downward to the lake on which the island castle rested, mixing and mingling their colors like paints run together on a rain-soaked canvas. The flowers bloomed year-round, reseeding themselves with commendable regularity. A horticulturist from Ben’s old world would have killed to study such treasures—species that grew only in the Kingdom of Landover and nowhere else.   Just at the moment, Ben would have killed to escape them.   “ … Great High Lord … ”   “ … Mighty High Lord … ”   The familiar calls of supplication grated on him like rough stones and reminded him anew of the cause of his disgruntlement. His eyes rolled skyward momentarily. Please! His gaze shifted furiously from flower box to flower bed and back again, as if somewhere among all those tiny petals the escape he so desperately sought might be found. It wasn’t, of course, and he sagged back further in his cushioned chair and contemplated the unfairness of it all. It wasn’t that he was trying to shirk his duty. It wasn’t as if he didn’t care about these things. But this was his refuge, for Pete’s sake! This was supposed to be his place for time away!   “ … and took all of our hard-earned berry stores.”   “And all of our ale kegs as well.”   “When all we did was to borrow a few laying hens, High Lord.”   “We would have replaced those that were lost, High Lord.”   “We intended to be fair.”   “We did.”   “You must see that our possessions are returned … ”   “Yes, you must … ”   They went on, barely pausing for breath.   Ben studied Fillip and Sot the way his gardener studied weeds in the flower beds. The G’home Gnomes rambled on unself-consciously and endlessly, and he thought about the vagaries of life that permitted misfortunes such as this to be visited on him. The G’home Gnomes were a pitiful bunch—small, ferretlike burrow people who begged, borrowed, and mostly stole everything with which they came in contact. They migrated periodically and, once settled, could not be dislodged. They were regarded in general as a blight upon the earth. On the other hand, they had proven unswervingly loyal to Ben. When he had purchased the Kingdom of Landover from Rosen’s Department Store Christmas Wishbook and come into the valley—almost two years ago now—Fillip and Sot, on behalf of all of the G’home Gnomes, had been the first to pledge their loyalty. They had aided him in his efforts to establish his kingship. They had helped him again when Meeks, the former Court Wizard, had slipped back into Landover and stolen his identity and his throne. They had been his friends when there were precious few friends to be had.   He sighed deeply. Well, he owed them something, certainly—but not this much. They were taking advantage of his friendship in a way that was totally unconscionable. They had traded on it to bring this latest complaint before him, deliberately cir...

Product details

• Authors: Terry Brooks
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.1989
• EAN: 9780345362278
• ISBN: 978-0-345-36227-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 170 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Landover; Landover
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy