（外文电子版资料）Tanith Lee - These Beasts.pdf

TANITH LEE TANITH LEE These Beasts [29 dec 2001鈥攑roofed and reformatted for #bookz] He was a tomb robber. Well, when you were dead, you were dead. All came to it. The mighty in their gold and gems, the impoverished unknown, wrapped in rags, their legs broken to fit the grave. And even he, Carem, would one day die. He did not mind if someone robbed him, after death. Welcome, my friend. It was this life that counted. Oh, he had been born as no one in the splendid city among the pink rocks. Noom Dargh, once the seat of kings, but no longer. He had been a whores son, sold at three months to be another whore. At ten, evading the man who was his owner鈥攕puriously charming, as Carem had learned to be, they all trusted him鈥攈e made off with traders. He was quick as fire. Handsome too. Among the traders he learned his profession. The caravan routes went all ways. And in the yellow deserts, stood up the strange bulbous stones, caught forever in mid-topple. What is that place? Ah, we will show him. It was a place of tombs. They went by night. No moon. Things howled in the desert, but he file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruiswij...ocumenten/spaar/Tanith%20Lee%20-%20These%20Beasts.html (1 of 16)23-2-2006 17:37:53 TANITH LEE was not afraid. No, not until they breached the stinking hotness of the rock and the bats, which laired there, poured outward鈥擳hen the man who liked Carem consoled him. Theres nothing here to hurt you. But look鈥攚hats that which shines? What shone was gold, contrary to so many proverbs. By the time he was a man, Carem had gained much knowledge, and some wealth. Let it be said, the wealth came