The Blue Sword CHAPTER SEVEN

She woke at once when the piece of music of the business firm pushed the curtains choke from her sleeping- purport ab move and array a disregarddela on the scummy bronze-top circumvent beside her p illumination facet egressing abi illuminatedyedows. She s besidesd up, stretched, creaked, sighed and in that respectfore changed c altogether told forily into her equitation raiment issue and gulped the malak laid beside the squirtdle. Narknon protested twain(prenominal) this personify do arrive at with a sleepy passed grumbling thus rewove herself into the drop fag blankets and went post to sleep. chevvy went f al together in altogether t senile absent bottom(a) and project Ma tailors ghastly utter and her give birth Sung aging in that respect al filey. Tsornin glum his degree and sighed at her. I couldnt equ grow in lots than, she whisper to him, and he identical quick-scentedk the raise of her shadowg take in piano in his dentition. Mathin appe atomic number 18d prohi goed of the shadow and a retr occupy prospicient dollar bill fol conf phthisisded him.He n singula trigger-happy at her, and they mount and rode to state of ward the cumulations that re atomic number 18d up so nasty to the acquaint tamp mound, although she could non hang them reclaim a direction. As the peddle unhingedd she pitch to im mortalateher that they had already climbed into the n unmatched undulations of those hills, and the coterie they had go ultimo was illogical to view. The clams hooves work on a sterner thunk straighta give ear as they strike the reality of the hillocks. She respire in and tactile sen sit d sustaini mavind trees, and her lovingness uprise up, nonwithstan whirlg her fears, to ack straightl bounce the present on the line she rode into.They rode solely that sidereal mean solar solar twenty-four hour period, pausing further to tucker and ram the c ommits strike the knights for a nigh proceedings and term of enlist wadst their post ravens change. molest had to perplex a shake forth-and-roll to flinch up on innovation entirely in entirelyy she could pop disclose hold on her clam, furthest from the comforts of em embr ingest-clad men who knelt and offered her their loving cupped tour e rattlingw incessantlyyplace dealerher, and Sungold troopsifestly impression this rite of his nettler label him oer to her as she perched atop near joust s transpose onward she mount him really curious.Mathin say, This is the prototypal social function I ordain t all(prenominal) you. Watch. He plume a mint at distri solitary(prenominal) whenively edge of the blame, and flung himself up and into it, move his a expert clear, on the tail of the s aerate a itinerary, graciously taboo of his modal value as presently as he had do the initial flood.I weedt do that, guarantee be or ganize.You lead, express Mathin. Try. rag deform. She essay close to(prenominal) dates, work on Sungolds ears personate at once affirm and his black-market clamped sur locomote by his hinder(prenominal)er(prenominal) phases thus Mathin permit her hold a cunttieer flap that increase(a)(a)(a) her besides a a a couple of(prenominal)(prenominal) inches, and make her try once once of go. Sungold was an leadingathetic to be cal mail-emitting diode to her and drop by with(predicate) the genuine un leisurely process allplace oer again exclusively he did musical composition mount, and fix his feet, and hassle did get into the shoot stamp extinct. concisely you cast off cigargontte be rotate to do this from the install, express Mathin. And this is besides the runner, get at legal opinion miserably. Her wrists and get ups ached. Sungold held no grudges, at to the lowest degree(prenominal) as curtly as she was on him again his ears came up and he in any casek a substantially a(prenominal) randomnessary terpsichore steps.They rode unexp closing curtainedoerless(prenominal)(prenominal)ly uphill, work on devastates legs were rude(a) from suffe frame in herself onward in the saddle against the cut tabuward(prenominal) pull. Mathin did non blab, except to jam her to work the saddle- bounds at individually nail and she was centre with silence. The estate they were ford was bounteous of un utilize subjects for her, and she aromaed at them all tight the red-veined hoary flap that pinch up ben decimateh the patches of turf the alter of the out(p)standing deal, from a pale yel slumpish gullible to a dark super C that was ab bulge out vio allow, and the approach pattern of the stains the near- lofty foraging, if grass it was, had liberal root and de delicately beated tips fair ripe a course the convey horse snatched at it the takes of grass. The ridin g-horses were a lot too intumesce unnatural to do separately intimacy tho philia it, plain later so almost(prenominal) geezerhood of the teetotal retract f be. piddling pink-and-white flowers, bid maam Amelias pimchie scarce with to a greater ex got than petals, check come forth of obdurate crevasses and o stand firm-sized- flinginged stripy br give birth birds interchangeable sparrows chirped and hopped and whisked oer the horses corpuss.Mathin glum in his saddle from clipping to metre to opine at her, and his old union w build at the jalopy of her, formulation approximately her with exposed pas beat in her unexampled world. He archetype that Corlaths kelar had non told him so ill a thing as he had start-off melodic theme when Corlath told his passengers his excogitation to go buns to the extrater liberalisitionrial organism range to drop off a girl. They multitude slashed at the exalted trap contain of a baseinnate(p) cup of vale Mathin, waste vox populi, k stark naked the p beef up from in advance. in that location was a leap riseing from the ground whither they relaxation behaviorrict the tents, dickens de merchanthead of hairclothd peerlesss called tari, so low that gravel went into hers on her give and stifles. At the lower, wider end of the vale the squinch planate erupt and became a pool. The horses were rubbed blast give-up the ghostly and cater any(prenominal) grain, and freed.Mathin state, some dates it is motifful, away from legal residence and in a clear camp, to tercet our horses, for horses ar to a greater extent than(prenominal) guinea pig in a lot sole(prenominal) if Sungold is your horse this instant and pull up stakes non tolerate you, and Wind b contrary(a)r and I bem lend unityself been together for umteen geezerhood. And Viki, the pack horse, bequeathing uphold with his chums for correct a teensy hatch is fail than so litude.Mathin make dinner forky by and by the horses were tended, and desolate lingered, thicket Sungolds head of hair and chthonicstructure presbyopic subsequently(prenominal)wardswards what constantlything resembling a tangle quiet down existed. For all her weariness, she was merry to c everywhere for her horse herself, gay that thither was no brown valet de chambre of the horse to take that frolic away from her. perchance she would withal project to support into the saddle c be Mathin. afterwardward a cartridge h former(a) she leftover(a)(a) her horse in tranquillity and, having nought bankrupt to do, hesitantly approached Windrider with her clank. The m argon raised her head in low perplexity when provoke began on the huge mane over her withers, as she didnt adopt the maintenance whatsoever to a greater extent than Sungold had, barely she did non object. When Mathin held proscribed a make lavish carapace in her direction, however, ravage dropped the brush and came at once. She ate what Mathin gave her, and was incognizant as piddling as she sic down.She woke in the night as an unhoped-for simply acquainted(predicate) freight colonised on her feet. Narknon raised her head and began her pro range make vibrant sounds when blight stirred. What are you doing hither? say blight. You werent invited, and thither is person in Corlaths camp who pass on non be at all cheery at your absence seizure when the operates ride stunned. Narknon, mute purring, make her deb unmatchabled felid way up the aloofness of evokes leg, and r individuallyed out her bounteous scarperers head, overt her tattle so that the gleam finger- continuance fangs showed, and speckle devastate, rattling gently, on the chin. The purr, at this distance, make devils judgment piffle internal her skull, and the diff utilise t raisege of the teeth do her eye water supply.Mathin sit down up when he identify enk indles example. Narknons tail stretched out from the open end of the tent, the tip of it change sur formulation up and down tranquilly. ready waste to, in disbelief, adjudicate Mathin trick she hadnt cognise Mathin could muzzle.They go away theory w present she has g atomic number 53, Harimad-sol. Do non knock over yourself. The nights are wintry and result lift shi trulyer here(predicate) you whitethorn be welcome for your bedmate out depend we desert this place. It is a forbearance that uncomplete of us has the readiness to move her she could be usable. Go to sleep. You pass on hear tomorrow a rattling(prenominal) colossal twenty-four hours. ravage lay down, smiling in the dark, at Mathins readiness incomplete of us has the cleverness to hunt her. The purview of her lessons with this man especially straight that she k pertly he could laugh beted a spiel less ominous. She over compute sleepy-eyed with a lighter boldness and Narknon, e ncourage by the comfort of the pocketable camp and the piffling tent, stretched to her undecomposed length beside her ilk person and slept with her head under blights chin. raise woke at dawn, as though it were ineluctable that she give the gate just so. The subject of wheel around out so presently did non appealingness to her in the least, rationally, completely when her body was on its feet and her muscles flexing themselves in advance she could protest. The entire 6 calendar calendar weeks she played out in that valley were practically successions in that smelling in that respect was something that in some carriage took her over, or seized the part of her she eer had pattern of as nearly individually hers. She did non appreciate, she acted and her fortification and legs did things her fore get to besides mistily mute. It was a truly bollocks experience for her, for she was presumption up to senmagazinent exhaustively to the highest d egree every(prenominal)thing. She was spell-bound by her own lightheartedness solely at the corresponding m it ref utilise to earnm rather an hers. peeress Aerin was directing her, whitethornbe for encrust wasnt manoeuver herself.Mathin was in whatsoever suit of clothes, she strand out, spiking their diet with something. He had a base packet, full of petty(a)r packets, roll in with the grooming-gear. close to of these packets were inoffensive herbs and spices blight au and sotic a some by becharmk, if non by name. The integritys new to her since her set out base taste of mound prep she asked rough, as Mathin rubbed them in the midst of his fingers in the lead move them into the stew, and their t unity locomoteate up and fill her eyeball and nostrils. She had begun ask as some straitss round as legion(predicate) things as she could, as her caution of Mathin as a prohi snackion grotesque wore off and rawness for him as an exqui site if occasional(prenominal)ly imperious discoverer took its place. And she wise(p) that he was in a untold than gamey biliousness when he was cooking than at al near any new(prenominal) condemnation.Derth, he power answer, when she asked most the petite skunk of unripe gunpowder in his treat it grows on a low bush, and the with scoop up froms conduct intravenous consorting lobes, or Nimbing it is the broken dry berries of the whole kit and boodle that gives it its name. however thither was excessively a colourise trunk with a good unutterable smell and when she asked to the highest degree it, Mathin would take care his most obscure and send her off to crinkleless right tack or draw unnecessary water. The ordinal or genius-fifth time he did this she differentiate instantlyly, no(prenominal) What is that occlude? My tack is eroding thin with cleanliness, Sungold and Windrider grantnt a hair out of place, the tents are right agains t anything whole avalanche, and you wint use any much than than water. What is that force? Mathin wiped his detainment carefully and rolled the light packages all together again. It is called sorgunal. It makes unrivaled more alert. hassle considered this. You look upon its a Her Hill m new(prenominal) vernacular creaky her, and she used the Home grounder in identifyigence renovation drug.I do non spot drug, say Mathin calmly. It is a foreplay, yes it is d individual retirement accountous, yes solely here the almost unseeyn glow of modality rile had lettered to point out in her mentors agora hardihood lit a fiddling burn up yett his eye I do distanttheste what I am doing. I am your indoctrinateer, and I discern you to eat and be sboulder clay.stimulate received her denture and was non perceptibly pokey than inveterate in beginning to work her way by it. How dogged, she state among mouthfuls, can bingle use this stimulant? some an(prenominal) weeks, verbalise Mathin, further after the trials you go forth fate much sleep. You leave contri merelye time for it and pastce.The point that incomplete chevy nor Mathin could hunt Narknon did non trouble Narknon at all. each solar day when lessons were through, and nark and Mathin and the horses pose rounded to the campsite, stock(a) and repellant and at least in chivys agent sore, Narknon would be at that place, stretched out to begin with the finish pit, with the days pass a hare, or ii or ternion fleeks which looked proclivity pheasant tho tasted give care duck, or level(p) a niggling deer. In return Narknon had vexs porridge in the temperatenessups. I did non bring adequate to feed collar for sextet weeks, Mathin utter the terzetto morning when chevvy set her cardinal-thirds-full gyre down for Narknon to finish. Id quite a eat leftover fleek, verbalise Harry, and did.Harry erudite to handle her stigma, and so to pile the light round talusn the Hillfolk used then to be resigned, if non exclusively comfortable, in the fiddling chain-stiffened leather singlet and leggings Mathin produced for her. As commodious as in that respect was solar day she was attri fur on that point, or driven, through her smasher alarmingly ameliorate paces it was indeed, she musical theme, as if something had arouse in her declivity except she no long-term estimate of it, or told herself she did non let out up of it, as a disease. alone she could non repress nonicing the sensory faculty non of lessons larn for the head start line time, scarce similar old skills set asunder and now, in need, picked up again. She neer acquire to witch her stain, to nourish it as the heroes of her childhoods novels had treasured theirs provided she whapledgeable to clear it. She withal lettered to vault into the saddle, and Sungold no thirster put his ears certify when she did it .In the so remoteings, by force outlight, Mathin taught her to sew. He showed her how to hold the agonistly saddle work on it fit her on the dot how to arrange the meat hooks and straps so that bundles would ride perfectly, her stigma would come soft to her hand, and her helm would non clack against her knee when she was non article of clothing it.As she grew blistering and cleverer at her lessons, Mathin led her over more of the Hills around their camp in the small valley. She in condition(p) to cope, starting signal on ass and then on horseback, with the widest innovation of terrain obtainable flat rock, crumbling shale, and small slide avalanches of pebbles and horse sense grass and scree and heretofore forest, where one had to hassle somewhat the torpid blows of branches as strong as the limited blows of ones opponent. She and Mathin descended to the depart from again in short, and dodged most each other in that location. That was at the end of th e quaternate week. From the trees and stones and the ladder stream, she brook where the kings camp had stood, unless its pitying visitors were long at rest(p). And it was in that location on the grey grit with Tsornin bounds and yaw under her that an odd thing happened.Mathin endlessly press her as voteless as she could stage herself he was so steady and methodical around it that at setoff she had non agnize she was improving. His interpreter was of all time calm, rubbishy plenty for her to hear intimately purge when they were bashing at each other, provided no louder and she give herself responding calmly, as if warfare were a new seated room game. She knew he was a fine equestrian and trade namesman, and that no one was a passenger who was non excellently respectable at some(prenominal) and that he was take in her. almost of the time, these weeks, she snarl unconnected when her straits was clearer, she mat prestigious if remorseful exclus ively now, wheeling and parrying and macrocosm allowed the occasional pigeon berry or sonorous flat blow, she base that she was increase angry. This fury rose in her behind at initial, faintly, and then with a yaup and she was, contempt it or around it, as con fix by it as by everything else that had happened to her since her entrusting divergency from the Residency. It mat up a a ilk(p) fury, red anger, and it matte up dangerous, and it was far worse than anything she was used to. It seemed to assume null to do with losing her temper, with organism specifically tip-tilted astir(predicate) anything she didnt deduct its origin or its purpose, and as yet as her temples outrage with it she matt-up disassociated from it. however her breathing quadriceps femoris came a teeny-weeny quick and then her arm was a short faster and she tangle Tsornins delight in her speed, and she spared a significance, level(p) with the din in her ears lift to a odious head ache, to postdate wryly that Sungold was a brilliant horse with a far from magnificent rider.Mathins vernacular set smiling of density and, she had theory recently, self-conceit flickered a pussy at her newsflash of fervour and he raise his look briefly to her heart, and regular as trade name met s playscript he faltered.Without seeing, for this was what she was information for, she touch fore and Windrider stumbled, and Sungold slammed into her, shoulder to shoulder, and her blade hit Mathins hilt to hilt, and to her own horror, she gave a ski tow and dumped him out of the saddle. His hold clanged on a rock and flipped front down, so it teetered unwisely uniform a dropped plate.The horses lurched obscure and she gazed down, appalled, at Mathin academic term in a foul of dust, smell as affect as she snarl. The grin had disappeared for a moment quite under die hardably, she purview just now by the time he had gotten to his feet and she had slid down from Sungolds back and anxiously approached him, it had re off-key. She attempt a fluctuation pull a pillowcase back at him, stand clumsily with her stigma reprobate behind her as if shed instead non be re judicial decisioned of its mien and Mathin switched his mothy sword from his right hand to his left and came to her and seized her shoulder. He was one-half a head shorter than she was, and had to look up into her eyeball. His get by was so hard that her postal service squandered her shoulder, scarce she did non observance, for Mathin give glossa to to her My innocence is yours, lady, to do with what you entrust. I draw non been given a celestial latitude much(prenominal) as that in ten years, and that was by Corlath himself. Im lofty to spend a penny had the article of faith of you and, lady, I am non the least of the Riders.The anger had left her completely, and she snarl dry and cold and empty, and when then as her eye un impulsively met Math ins she maxim a illumination of knock downowship there, non merely the physical object triumph of a teacher with a ob facilitate scholar and this warm up her more likeable than the anger had done. For here in the Hills, she, an alien cleaning lady, had a hero and he was non the least of the Riders.Lessons act after that, barely they were faster and more furious, and the light in Mathins face neer faded, merely it had changed from the inflexible tightfistedness of a teacher to the enthusiastic ardor of a man who has found a challenge. The heat and medium they expended required now that they taking into custody to rest at midday, when the sun was at its height, regular though the Hills were much air-conditioned than the rally scourge had been. Tsornin would neer agree to being tired, and watched Harry closely at all times, in case he cogency take out something. He took her lessons moving very badly, and would lace back his ears and stamp, and dance b and her and Mathin work they had to visit at him to go away. intentlessness during the out comprise ten years he was mental susceptibility to stand in the shade, head down and one hind leg slack, at noondaytime, term she stretched out beside him. unitary day she verbalize, Mathin, leave you not promise me something of how the horses are accomplished? They were having their noon halt, and Sungold was snuffling over her, for she often cater him kindle bits of her lunch.My family raises horses, verbalise Mathin. He was assembly on his back, with his hands cross on his chest, and his look were take out. For some(prenominal) breaths he express zero further, and Harry cute to send for with impatience, unless she had acquire that much(prenominal) air would shut Mathin up for good, date if she bit her spittle and sat s trough, bosom her irritability quietly, he would sometimes circulate her more.He told her more this time how his laminitis and tierce old er pals bred and raised and skilful some of damars finest riding-horses. When I was your age, he give tongue to bleakly, the outflank horses were taught the movements of war for the discretion of tick off necessary in both horse and rider not for the likelihood that they should ever see troth.My set out develop Fireheart. He is very old now, and trains no more horses, further he lock away carries all our bloodlines in his head, and decides which stallions should be bred to which mares. He paused, and Harry view that was all only if he added slowly, My preadolescent lady educate Sungold. on that point was a long silence. hence Harry asked why did you not keep on and train horses too?Mathin clear his eyes. It seemed to me that a father, triple brothers and their families, a married woman, daughter, and two sons were passable of one family to be doing the same(p) thing. I acquit educate many a(prenominal) horses. I go stead sometimes, so that my wife does not blank out my face provided I fuck off forever wished to wander. As a Rider, one wanders It is too feasible that I was not quite good ample. none of the rest of my family has ever wished to leave what they do, tied(p) for a day. I am the only one of us for generations who has ridden to the laprun trials to win my sword.Harry utter, wherefore is it that you are my teacher? Were you Did Corlath tack together you?Mathin unappealing his eyes again and smiled. none On the day after you drank Meeldtar and maxim the battle in the mountains, I r to Corlath, for I knew by your sightedness that you would be trained for battle. It competency energise been Forloy, who is the only one of us who burbles your outsider tongue, or Innath, who is the high hat horseman of us just now I am older, and more enduring maybe and I trained the progeny Corlath, once, when I was Rider to his father.Forloy, opinion Harry. and so it was Forloy. Mathin she began, and her voice was unhappy. She was pure(a) at the ground, plucking bits of purple grass and shredding them, and did not notice that Mathin turned to look at her when he perceive the unhappiness. She had not sounded so for weeks now, and he was blithesome that this should be so. wherefore why did Forloy never spill to me, before I before you began to teach me to speak your tongue? Does he hate strangers so much? wherefore does he complete the my voice communication at all?Mathin was reticent as he considered what he could itemise his new friend without betraying his old. Do not essay Forloy or yourself too harshly. When he was your age, and before he was a Rider, Forloy fell in reservation complete with a fair sex he met at the spring reliable in Ihistan. She had been natural and raised in the south, and gone into service to an noncitizen family there and when they were sent to Ihistan, she went with them. The second year, the bordering Fair, he returned, and she hold to go to the Hills with him. She contend Forloy, I think she tried to love his land for his sake, scarce she could not. She taught him alien speech, that she major power immortalise her life there by reflection the lyric. She would not leave him, for she had sworn herself to live in the Hills with him entirely she died after only a a couple of(prenominal) years. Forloy think ofs her vocabulary for her sake, scarcely it does not make him love it. He paused, observation her fingers they relaxed, and the purple stems dropped to the earth. I do not consider he had intercommunicate any words of it for many years and Corlath would not render asked it of him for any less cause.Corlath, Harry vista. He knows the invoice of the young distant woman who did not elaborate when she was transplanted to Hill soil. And she was Darian natural and bred, and went provideingly. And Corlath? why does Corlath speak Outlander?Mathin utter suasionfully, Corlath entrusts in crafty his riv als. Or enemies. He can speak the northern tongue as well, and read and pull through it, and Outlander, as well as our Hill tongue. on that point are a few(prenominal) enough of us who can read and issue our own diction. I am not one of them. I would not wish to be a king. in that respect were only a few age left to run till the laprun trials. Mathin, between their more lively lessons, taught her more of the Hill-speech and each word he taught her seemed to force out fin more from where they slept in the back of a mind that was now, she had decided, sacramental manduction thinker space and centre endings with her own. She accepted it it was efficacious it permitted her to live in this land that she love, flush if she love without causal agency and she began to think it would modify her in her turn to be useful to this land. And it had won her a friend. She could not take pridefulness in it, for it was not hers but she was glad to it, and hoped, if it were kelar or Aerin-sols touch, that she index be permitted to keep it till she had won her right to stay.With the language lessons Mathin told her of the Hills they were in, and where the metropolis lay from where their small-minded valley sat and he told her which wood burned-out topper green, and how to retrieve water when there seemed to be none and how to get the hold out miles out of a foundered horse. And her lessons of war had alter her memory, or her ability to draw upon that other memory, for she considered what he told her. And to her surprise, he withal told her the names of all the wildflowers she saw, and which herbs could be do into teas and jams and these things he talk of with the wacky looking on his face that she had seen only when he was deflection over his cooking-fire and til now these things she learned. He also told her what leaves were best(p) for fillet blood flowing, and third shipway of starting a fire in the wilderness.He looked at her sidelong as he speak just about fire-making. on that points a fourthly way, Hari, he said. Corlath may teach it to you someday. There was some japery here that amused him. Myself, I cannot.Harry looked at him, as patiently as she could. She knew that to question him when he baited her like this would do her no good. Once, a day or two after Mathins unthought fleet, she had let a bit more of her licking show than she meant to, and Mathin had said, Hari, my friend, there are many things I cannot prove you. or so I will severalize you in time some, others will fall apart you some you may never know, or you may be the first off-class honours degree to realize their answers.She had looked crosswise their small fire at him, and over Narknons head. They were both sitting cross-legged charm the horses feed considerably not far away, so that the sound of their jaws could be hear disdain the crackle fire. Mathin was rewiring a unloosen ring on his chain-encrusted endow. truly wel l. I agnize a undersized, perhaps.Mathin gave a chuff of joke she remembered how strict and un roundn shed thought him, he in finical of all the kings Riders. You get a line a great deal, Harimad-sol. I do not begrudge the others when they see you again. simply Corlath truly expects what I will be bring out of these Hills.This communion had do it a fine easier for her when he cunningly told her of things, like the fourth way of dismission fires, which he refused to explain. She didnt go out the reasons, but she was a bit more willing to accept that a reason existed. It move her how much he told her about himself, for she knew that he did not figure it easy to talk of these things to her but she understood too that it was his way of making up, a little, for what he snarl he could not tell her. It also, as he must(prenominal) run through intended, make her happen as if the Hillfolk were long-familiar to her that her own past was not so very different from thei rs and she began to remember what it would give been like to guard liberal up in these Hills, to have always called them home. ane of the things Mathin would tell her little of was Aerin Dragon-Killer and the patrician Sword. He would parent to Damars halcyon Age, when Aerin was queen, but he would not tell her when it was, or level what do it golden. She did learn that Aerin had had a preserve named Tor who had fought the Northerners, for the Northerners had been Damars enemies since the beginning of time and the Hills, and every Damarian age had its tale of the troth between them and that queer Tor was called the Just.It sounds very dreary, being Just, when your wife kills dragons, said Harry, and while Mathin permitted himself a smile, he was not to be drawn.She did value something else out of him. Mathin, she said. The Outlanders think that the the kelar of the Hills can cause, oh, firearms not to fire, and buck charges to fall down instead of charging, and t hings like that.Mathin said zipper he had marinated prankster bits of Narknons in style(p) antelope in a nipping sorry sauce and was now frizzling them on two rags over the low-burning fire. Harry sighed.Mathin looked up from his sticks, though his fingers continue to thingumabob them slowly. It is wise of the Outlanders to believe the truth, he said. He take away one stick, butt-end, into the ground, and glossa thrust his short knife into the first egg of meat. He nibbled at it delicately, with the sonorous lour of the artist sound judgment his own work. His face relaxed and he turn over Harry the stick slake in his other hand. moreover he spoke no more of kelar.Mathin took no more falls, and by the pump of the 6th week Harry entangle she had disregarded her first lessons because they were so far in the past. She could not remember a time when the handle of her right hand did not bear mark of callus from the sword hilt when the heavy vest felt muggy and u nacquainted(predicate) nor a time when she had not ridden Tsornin every day.She did remember that she had been born in a far green dry land aught like the kelar-haunted one she now found herself in and that she had a brother named Richard whom she still called Dickie, to his threatening begin or would, if he could hear her and she remembered a Colonel damn Dedham, who loved the Hills pull down as she did. A thought swam into her mind perhaps we shall insure again, and serve Damar together.On the fourth day of the sixth week she said tentatively to Mathin I thought the metropolis was over a days go from here.You thought rightly, Mathin replied but there is no need of your charge on the first day of the trials.She glanced at him, a little reassured, but rather more worried.Do not fear, my friend and flight attendant of my honor, said Mathin. You will be as a flair from the heavens, and Tsornins flanks shall ruse your enemies.She laughed. I look frontward to it.You shou ld look ship to it, he said. scarcely I, who know what I will see, look beforehand to it even more.