Моя попытка продолжить начатый перевод в связи с тем, что переводчик умер.
Halkegenia Online v1.0
Поскольку в английском я чуть менее, чем никак, "тапки" приветствуются. Особенно если кто заметит совсем уж дикую отсебятину.
Чистовой вариант выкладывается на Фикбуке.
“Yui-chan!” Leafa cried out as she hovered over Tarbes “Yui-chan!” The woman's voice had grown raw from hours of calling.
“Oy, Yui-chan!” Klein drifted at her side, shouting right along with her.
By now, the fires had been doused and the villagers of Tarbes had begun to take stock of the damage. A homestead and a barn burned to the ground, but the fields had been saved and the home could be rebuilt. A few of the men had been injured. Bitten or slashed by dagger dogs, a singed arm from a near miss by a fireball, and few scratches from the wasps which would have been serious without the anti venom provided, reluctantly by KoKo, the Faeries were still unsure how their medicines might effect a human.
In the village square, Louise Valliere sat on a stone bench beside the Church. The sky was beginning to lighten and the sun would rise in another hour. She'd barely slept all night. “This is all my fault.” Louise groaned, placing her hands over her face.
At her side, Silica looked on helplessly as she held her wounded familiar. “Don't say that Louise-san.” The girl placed a hand on her shoulder and Louise felt even worse. She was being comforted by a twelve year old.
“I was supposed to keep her safe.” Louise said.
“No. You were supposed to keep yourself safe.” KoKo replied as she crouched down on the ground beside them. “We thought if you did that, Yui would be fine. We were wrong.” The hunter was examining the carcasses of her kills. With a single smooth motion, she wedged her knife into a seam in a Wasp carcass and began to slice open the creatures abdomen to gain access to its innards.
“What are you doing?” Silica asked.
KoKo didn't answer immediately, choosing to quietly sift through the wasp's guts. “These guys might look nasty, but they're herbivores. Those big stingers are just how they protect their nests.”
“So?” Louise snapped.
“Well, if they're tamed then it stands to reason they're probably being fed pretty consistently in the same place. In which case we know what sorts of plants they've been hanging around. If there's anything from ALfheim in here, then I can tell what we should be looking for from the air.”
“Looking for?” Louise asked. “You mean . . .”
“Mmm. If Yui isn't here she must have been taken with them, or else . . .” The Cait Syth didn't finish that sentence.
'Or else one of the wasps thought the little girl in the flower dress was just a little flower.' Louise thought, but nobody wanted to say that. There was an unspoken fear among them all that Yui's little body still lay hidden somewhere in the shadows of the Square. 'Please Founder, don't let that be true.' Louise thought miserably.
KoKo pulled a fleshy bag from the wasps innards and then paused. “You know, suddenly knowing how to do all of this mighty hunter catwoman stuff is pretty cool . . . But . . .”
“It's also pretty gross.” Silica finished.
“Uh-huh.” KoKo nodded and then, flipping her knife in her hand, drove the blade into the pouch and spilled the wasps last meal across the cobble stones at their feet. Louise felt lucky that her own stomach was almost empty, otherwise she would have lost its contents. “Mmm. Mostly leaves and, some fruit, these look like Eden Apples, so some of those most have made it in the transition . . .” KoKo said to herself.
Klein and Leafa set down nearby to rest theirs wings. When they had realized Yui was missing, they'd tried to give chase when the Pixies and their wasps fled. But by the time they had realized what had happened and gotten into the air, the Wasps had already scattered into the forest. There had been no use in chasing them. Even so, Klein and Silica had been forced to almost haul Leafa back rather than allowing her run off into the woods.
The Sylph woman looked even worse than Louise felt. “We should never have come.” Leafa said, “Yui and I should have stayed in Arrun. I put her in danger . . . I don't deserve to be her . . . her . . .” The woman shook her head furiously.
'Her what?' Louise wandered. She probably meant she didn't deserve to be the girl's guardian. But that wasn't true at all, Leafa had done nothing but put Yui's well being first.
“You can't keep thinking like that.” Klein placed a hand on Leafa's shoulder. “You have to stay on the ball, Yui is a smart kid, she'll stay safe, we just need to find her.”
Leafa nodded, “Un.”
The Sylph Swordswoman didn't seem to find any comfort in Klein's words. In fact, she looked like she was trying hard not to cry. Louise knew because she had seen that expression on her own face in the mirror many times. More Faerie strangeness, Louise had thought that the woman was much stronger and more sure of herself than this. But every time Louise began to accept that fact, something would happen to shatter the image. First the way she shied away from Kirche's teasing despite her revealing dress. And then the way that she declined wine as if it was poison.
“Leafa-chan.” KoKo said calmly, the Cait Syth stood, wiping her hands on her pants. “Listen, Yui must be alright. The Wild Pixies don't have any reason to hurt her.”
Leafa nodded dully.
“Hey, listen!” KoKo snapped her fingers in front of the girl. “Keep it together Leafa-chan, remember you're a cool sempai, not some newbie. We need you. Yui-chan needs you.” The hunter turned to Louise, “And she needs you too, Louise-chan.”
“M-me?” Louise stuttered, what could she possible do to help.
“If the pixies took her. Then we'll find Yui by going ahead with our mission.” Klein reasoned. “That's what you're trying to say?”
“Un.” KoKo nodded. “Louise-chan, we'll be relying on you. There are things that you can help us with, things that only you can do.”
Louise laughed inwardly, what a joke. She was just a third rate mage who couldn't even protect a person who was less than a hundredth her size. “Oh? What good am I.”
“Plenty.” KoKo insisted, “Look, our plan really hasn't changed. We still have to find the pixies and get them to stop attacking the village, now we just add rescuing Yui.”
“Right.” Klein said, crossing his arms. The Salamander had become all business as soon as the attacks had begun and hadn't reverted to his buffoonish behavior since. Louse supposed that even a mutt like him had his talents. “So lets keep with out plan from yesterday for now. Louise-san, once the sun comes up, you and Silica should go talk to the town healer, Silica said the healer used to send her daughter in to the forest for reagents so she probably knows about the lay of the forest. Maybe she can tell us something. Leafa and I will head out with Tabitha to search the forest. We can use sylphied to rest our wings.”
“What about Kirche?” Louise asked.
“Eh, well . . . She can stay here and keep watch.” Klein said, looking distinctly uncomfortable. “Yeah, that's pretty a good idea. Louise, would you mind telling her that?” The man was rubbing at the back of his head again. 'Now what's wrong with him. Is Tabitha's illness spreading?'
“The sooner we start. The better.” Leafa said softly. Above them, Tabitha's dragon circled in the slowly lightening sky.
Отредактировано Paganell 8-) (22-07-2021 06:06:59)