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Настал вечер, и я, понимая, что сражаться и одновременно тащить на себе статую несподручно, что без сообщника в таком деле не обойтись, посвятил в свой замысел Диомеда. Вдвоем дождались глубокой ночи, меткой стрелой поразили зазевавшегося караульного – и вот уже мы бесшумно, словно тени, крадемся по узким переулкам Илиона. Больше никакого маскарада и размахивания драными рукавами – на сей раз мы просто убивали всякого, кто осмеливался подать голос во мраке. И вот наконец впереди показалась наша цель – потайная сточная труба из отхожих мест Приамова дворца, о которой и говорила Елена. Сын Тидея, типичный твердолобый герой Аргоса, тут же развонялся.
“The next night, knowing that I would need an ally since I could not fight and carry the heavy Palladion stone at the same time, I enlisted Diomedes in my plan. Together in the deepest hour of the night, the son of Tydeus and I went up and over the wall—killing this sentinel with a well-placed arrow. Then we moved quickly down the streets and alleys—no dumb show as flogged slaves this night, but, rather, efficiently and silently killing any who challenged us—and made our way into Priam’s palace via a hidden sewer drain that Helen had told me how to find. “Diomedes, a proud man like so many of those thick-skulled heroes from Argos, did not like wading through a sewer for any purpose, not even to ensure the downfall of Ilium. He grumbled and bitched and pissed and moaned and was in a truly foul mood by the time we added insult to injury by having to climb up through a hole in one of the ten-man crappers in the privies of the palace basement, where Priam’s treasure vaults were located in the midst of his elite guard’s barracks.
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