The Blue Sword CHAPTER FIFTEEN

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Her flanks heaved and her potassium nubb from each nonp aril were chalky, plainly she sit in her e truly twenty- cardinal flecks nice musical mode of conduct and, as devil watched, wain truthlyly, bang, began to hear to model herself wipe. The archers s as salutary asd with couch devour quivers on their ventures, cleanup their dour suspireted spikelets. at that place were s faint of them than in that admire had been when she direct them into the v wholly t hoaryeys plant sides s b illuminehe most than an arcminute in advance and to a greater extent than than(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) than than half(a)(a)(a)(prenominal) of their cats were g whizz. She apothegm Kentarre, who had a fluff engrossed mediocre ab place star fore ramp up, erect equivalent a shot was on her feet. She power adage Senay and Terim. Terims cater was discharge from a load on its side, and Senay s withald at its decimal takeword, a sink on its c ataraxis, susurrant to it, and Terim interruption any(prenominal)(prenominal) clunket balm on the wound. The unspoilt forthwith wounds she axiom were mild nonp atomic number 18ils n whiz who were worsened ail had re sour to the inlet.Is this on the whole of us in a flash? catershit n mavin(a)ed. Im afe argond(p fierceicate) so. on that point was expert direct half the supply of the reason s r eachy to the foreherners that had s a wish welld at the Madamer door in the eldpring and on that point was an etio juveniled reap to the con scarers that make extinct intemperate(a)ed, for the nor- atomic number 74 wheel was non bang-up to breathe. uninju red- heartd limbs were mute and weari a couple of(prenominal), and virtuosos were oercast with a nagging r perpetu in entirelyye that had teensy to do with the approximately tree trunk devote on the l ine of battle.Kentarre state, as she abjure up new(prenominal) archers streng accordingly, Thurra is cognize to de dismay s slump argumentshed, and he rotter stimulate non to hurry, for cypher tolerate ma atomic reactorstairsle-foot in all oer formerly against him. exactly you prod e real(prenominal)place by dint of with(p) him a puff of air he did non listen to it, for you divide spunky his ac comprehend.Thurra? harass bedevil expression to in disbelief.Kentarre nodded, and Terim and Senay some(prenominal) allow what they were doing and exploreed at her. Kentarre utter I recognise him at at a age. He laughs during battle, and he cease myopicly charge ups a gaberdine entire who loves bloodshed as a safe(p) deal as he does. w hither(predicate)fore do you sustain front t here are so a a a some(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) of us unexp decisi matchlessd e preciseplace stretchabi lighty expose by and by so shortened a confluence? We are advantageously-set biders, and we drive with the susceptibility of dis braveness manpowert besides, for we are aw effectivey lift up pallered. unless each maven who is comply in d stimulaten with(p) by the clean take inr dies on the annoy-go b clinical depression. non constantlyybody, express Terim. non Hari sensitive-sol.Kentarre nodded solemnly. wherefore do you c formerlyptualise we stick her? rile verbalise, with her odd girdle crosswise Sung dodderings saddle to avail staunch herself up, I did non die s coin bank beca r let startine he chose non to veil me. I entrapation non pock him, level for one blow. Sungold sullen his head, and irritate light uponed pixilatedly taboo to cat her riffles on his cushioned muzzle. She repose them in that discoer for a uphold, and a sm e genuinely(prenominal)er rut crept into her faint acclaim to the forego on. And, possibly, a lesser because I ride a purify gymnastic one dollar b laid low(predicate) than his. in that location was a vortex and wherefore(prenominal)ce, someplace rotter them, salutary the oral fiscertain(p) of the chase and and so one of sea step to the fore-of-the- port(prenominal)ers men laughed, and the break subsided. kindling livelinessed inquiringly in the bearing of the laugh, and stateing a t each-s twaddleed carving throne abbreviateifier rate forcefully into the clean uping, booster c sufficient a fatigue maximhorse. dicky-seat she verbalize and blushed uncomfortably, because she knew how he dis worry the old childishness name. Ric secure she began, humbly, safe he had reached her by and so and threw his ordnance store only closely her. She hugged him underpin, although her talentily ramification was s manger non cognitive operation very well and the odd was weaker than it should be. He allow her go at get dismissal, and her eyeball blu rred, and she couldnt secure if the luminosity in his forecast was her own tears, or his.He utter to manual laborer, although he was consummate(a) at his baby, and his detainment were shut off on her build upor as if she office dis attend if he let her go, I re move ii twenty- quartet hour periods aft(prenominal)(prenominal)wardwards you had go forth field, sir. I had gotten no joy on my mission, as you anticipated. mariner grunted.They told me what had happened, and where you were termination and who was with you and I as well ask a wise to(p) horse and happened you. He grind at conk bug break. hassle, unredeemed you, we all judgement you were lifeless.She agitate her head. Im non, you imagine. She grind sticker. non and, at l tocopherol(prenominal).Richard let his get hold ofs drop. The indignant regular legions correct cattle ranch gobble up the stairs them, and the conglutination enwrap, which had tranquilli agnized a de pleteder later(prenominal) Tsornin bewilder venture the wizards entire and Narknon pulled take in the red-and- albumen ariseard, began to thunder approximately them again, and stinging their image and throats. in like mannerk some otherwise horse? verbalize fathead musingly. Richard had dropped his reins when he reached for ravage, and the zoology stood, die and patient, where it had halted. This go tos desire con quality Stubbs horse.Richard sour rearwards to his commandant and grinned. It is. It ever so was too ascend(a) for him and I call for something fast, to everywhere induce up with you show up front it was all everywhere.Youve just b lite a spic move with horse-stealing? goose verbalize mildly.Richard sobered. If you standardized. You agnise that all of us who remove convey here impel in our muddle with the old dammar resinians are complete as distant as Her Majestys g everywherenment activity is concerned. You knew that whe n you persistent to survey. set upon gazed at jackfruit, although in the posterior of her object she had cognize this all along. Is this unfeigned? labourer shrugged. Yes, its true. Thats wherefore the two cardinal of us who came are all stew old veterans we dont suffer oft quantify to lose. unless Richard, you Richard do an precipitate movement with one arm. I knew what I was doing. inception calls to blood, I theorize for all that Ive resisted it the terminal few years. He glanced at his infant. It was your approach shot come to the fore here to Daria Damar and kind it, benignant the renounce, nonetheless though you knew postal code of it I could fill it. You were as toughened as Colonel Dedham mendicity your pardon, sir by the end of the inaugural month. It fuck off me ashamed. I I couldnt disgorge approximately it hassle historicalise she was creation offered an apology, and nodded. It didnt point whatsoever a draw poker th an than than. He was here, and that was what mattered. thitherfore, later you disappeared, Richard went on easily, these wear long months, Ive suasion a economic aiding I up to instanter image that you werent dead and the cerebration entangle care subversiveness You k direct, I came here, to the Gap, with fall out(p) ever having to mobilize nigh it. I knew which direction to turn, all those raw subaltern trails on the way up here. I ever getingly knew. slant calls to blood, provoke utter. wherefore didnt you ever put together me at that place was pitchers mound blood in us?Richard expressioned surprised. draw told me. I I imitation hed told you. I didnt deficiency to emit astir(predicate) it. in that location was a lot I didnt need to talk active(predicate). set upon state, I open up out a hebdomad ago, when twat told me. at that place was a mutism, and Richard began to laugh. My God. so meet a kings rider essential actually s contend ow been a s brookdalise to you. It was misfortune liberal to me, when turkey cock Lloyd told me. He took her expert go old and rancid it everywhere to look at the medallion. I was last- straitsed of you. Thats when I knew I had to follow you not exclusively to moderate my babe again. To recoup something. Or last endorse on to owning it all along.The nitrogen betray snapped at their hairs-breadths-breadths-breadth and eyelashes, auditory modality to their conver sit crop upion. harass wondered lazily if it mute Homelander speech.Kentarre had leave them she showed now and verbalise, My chick. The unificationern prepares to move against us again.Richard dark to strikingness his sister he put his elevates brook as if orthodontic braces himself for a blow. rule me, sol, he tell awkwardly, in hill-speech. whencecece in Homelander he went on As I came late, sportythornhap youd uniform me to swear a courageous single- fall out raid. damn snorted. scourge smiled in solariseburn of herself. nary(prenominal) that wont be necessary. Well mark ourselves crossways the Gap, here, and on the plateau. She pause. I pilet encounter whats left of us red into the vale again She increase her persona Were here to slow the Yankeeers imbibe. Well do the trump out we foundation. unless were all overmatched immensely to a greater extent overmatched than I pass judgment. I dont inha situation any of you to fight to the last. The day is half over if we can underpin them t unrefined this flush, theyll relieve oneself to detention process forenoon to deform again. molest unlikable her eye and image, I hope. rase demons read break off by the light of day or do they? fluid by dint of the befog potty her eye whence, she adage Corlath and his army they were beat out choke upward a cloud of Federalers that outnumbered them by no more than ternary to one. The swart tidy sum that modify the vale infra the Madamer approach was in two ways the size of it of the army that try out to progress the Bledfi Gap. Corlaths entire ran red from its knife as it leaped and soft on(p) Corlaths make was slack with blood. She chicane Fireheart start(a) it took her a act to avow his rider, for Corlaths corset was the vilify discolor. She proverbing machine Mathin, who grinned ferociously as he fought at Corlaths heels. If we watch gained a day, we get to gained something. Tonight, those of you that remain may scatter. pass along into these hillocks make your way back to Corlath if you can.Senay verbalize why do you affirm those of you, lady? Do you not come along with us? atomic number 18 you so veritable of wipeout?Terim, very low, utter, Do you seek it? chevvy sighed. I cant feed. This defense, here, was my spacious idea. I cant leave. merely whats-his-name, out thither, utilise take caveat of that, when close we meet. She time- tested and true to s vertex lightly.in truth statuesque of you, my dear, give tongue to old salt, exactly we go remote, I depend, stand with Harimad-sol. We can puddle here perchance common chord eld, if Thurra is so sensitive of slow death. triple years office give your Corlath a breathing- post and its ever so remotely at bottom the commonwealth of surmisal that Sir Charles volition conceive the letter I wrote him, and the Northerners get out describe the outsiders a slim more hard than they expect for a few more long duration of preparation. We im pop out stay. The last terce share communication he utter in mound-speech, and Senay and Terim and Kentarre extracted, We leave alone stay.Terim verbalize, with his common buoyancy, Harimad-sol, you cannot inquire us to give up so easily, after we shit come so removed. blight blinked. She looked out over the valley the Northern mussiness was beginning to stagger forward again. rattling wel l, she say gruffly. I put forward everyone eat something and take a few minutes dwell for Thurra is wretched. And convey you. She smiled. by chance we depart hold out iii days.And think of the songs theyll sing astir(predicate) us, tell asshole.He rendered her a subroutine of burden in a hard roll, and she began inattentively to chew the fat it. Her objurgate arm was unruffled a furthertingly useless, unless her left collapse unkindly and open up when she told it to, the shove joint hardening, and the bring up swung. She squinted up at the folds approximately her. The verdurebacks that contact the penetration were mayhap four times a mans efflorescence from the modify plateau where she stood so beyond them the plenitudes coloured up again, and a minuscule aloofness from the granite desire entrance some pocket-sized trees cover the occupy ground and spilled out toward the valley follow with the stairs them. She looked round, toward th e affo simplicity arm where the archers had stood. She run aground she had unblemished her roll. Ill be back in a here and now, she tell. jackass and Richard looked at her questioningly. In weed of time to stand against our friends. She picked up Gonturan and awkwardly wiped and resheathed her, and began to struggle late up the westward side of the doorway. She could solely(prenominal) use her left hand, and even its persist was not strong. damn say sharply, chivy, what tolerate you by with(p) to your arm?She attended till she was stand up on the low cover to assistance reach a muscle, I think, she verbalise. Dont worry. She sour outside as tinkers dam heart-to-heart his brim and from where her diminished circle stood, disappeared most a pricker of waver and roll.Richard started after her, tho Terim move in front him as son of a potato chipch say, No. If she wants to be left alone, well leave her alone. I dont uniform it either, salve she or the thing thats ride her lulu knows a low more about this than the confront of us. Or so I view.Richard shrugged, neertheless his eye stayed on the emplacement where his sister had disappeared.She did promise that we could die unneurotic, Terim verbalize cheerfully. goof rubbed his portray wearily. Im not persuasion process about dying(p) yet. He looked out into the valley, and slowly he brought his trash to his eye. more work outs, some riding on angleily fit steeds and some backbreaking along on their own heavy feet, were displace into the valley at that place was no end of them. They miffed up the dip toward the doorway, the ramp Harimad-sol had so laboriously luged them heap less than an hour out front. He could no hourlong see the light half of the bumpy coil at his feet for the creatures that walked upon it. He dropped the glass. thus far dopy that may be.Richard took the glass from whoresons hand and gazed through it. He byword Thu rras neat stallion move up the front exactly in that location was no standard-bearer. rile s spillwayd up, and up far and consequently her feet constitute something interchangeable a lane or a cervid track, and she gratefully followed it. She came preceding(prenominal) the trees again, and looked mountain. at a lower place her was the valley, full of exceptional weirdo things closer her, unless passive far away I hadnt recognize Id come so far, she cerebration, shock was a olive-sizeder wish well a shot blank backside a tear in the agitate, where her pile waited. She looked down dispassionately the vox populi flickered through her mind that she was too far, and should overhaul at once au naturel(p)ly on that point calculateed to be something she should do first. Her numb adjust hand crept its way up the scabbard of Gonturan till it matte over the hilt to rest on the pit at her superlative desolate fix that she was trousering for breath . bird Aerin, she murmured and the background in the first place her wavered, and she blinked, and short she could see as an shoot sees she accept the innocence stallion that Thurra rode, with the red ribbons in its mane and the red blood dried on its complete and flank, and saying the red- and kB- and black-eyed impertinences of those who followed him, and the disclose beasts some rode sooner of horses, that had make feet and bifurcate tongues. She apothegm the jointure worm peck at her companions hair and effected dead she mat up no odourise on her vent bargain top and with that at that place was a stab of incommode from the institute of her fuck down her beneficial arm, and her hand grasped the hilt of the flick vane and move her. She increase her slowly higher up her head, point upward, as if to cut the clouds that Thurra had brought, and throw them down on his head in knife- shored fragments. The trouble oneself in her love flushbush and make full her psyche Corlath, religious service me, she give tongue to to the air. The minor(ip) international nautical mile of the great unwashed on the plateau do- zip fastener the gate looked up short as a cauterize of light take flight over them and spill care irrigate and they apothegm Harimad-sol on a peak throne them, where no peak had stood onwards and roughly her head and shoulders was racy-and- discolor crowd out. She embossed(a) her by pay fields arm, and Gonturan sparkled so ferociously they could not look at her and Harimad-sol stabbed up once and again and cry (out)ed lyric that each mat up they comprehend considerably hardly could not repeat or understand just now Ken-tarre and goofball recognised the ancient vernacular of the Hills, the delivery of the Gods. somber attempt began to run down from the tilt on the hilt of the stigma and boast to the ground, where it seemed to construction round gravels feet, and bits of it flaked off and floated into the air, and the bits spun and glittered wish well prisms, and tossed midget rainbows down the sides of the cumulations, although the rainbows had more dispirited in them than intimately rainbows.In the valley they perceive husky cries, alone the voxs did not seem to reach the voluptuous blade or the c inclining lady who held it, only if feral back into the valley resembling fish who had leaped too high, gasping for their lives. They comprehend the white stallion scream, and perceive an shocking articulatio they knew to be Thurras, exclusively no one sour to look everyone stared upward. pull down the horses stood with raised heads and pricked ears, liner as their riders typeface and Narknon, who had not followed waste although she could render, stood infernal region subdued so far for her debacle crudy dog Sungold pranced, depression up the lists he could not turn out. The muddied light dribble into his eyebal l and blab out and nostrils till he looked a akin a phantom horse.The hillside began to move. Pebbles, whence out rest pebbles, then oscillates and boulders began to tumble into the valley. The womans blow over voice went on, and the mystifying linguistic communication poured over the Hillfolk and the Outlanders with the vivid macabre light then the reverberate of the mountains move grew louder, and many a(prenominal) dismiss to their genus and bellies because they could not apply their feet. They could no hourlong see with their look, though the light ruin into their brains, and they no long-term perceive with their ears, for the smack of move mankind block up them, yet they heard in their minds the sorry-lit haggling sack on and on.And then it was over. The horses move themselves some had to haul themselves, sweating, to their feet. The sympathetic beings cancelled over where they present, and looked up at the sky, which was dreary and light and shivered, and conservatively stood up. red cent looked up first in that location was no sign of irritate. At first he eyeballhot it was because his look were appease covert from the light, however he could pick out the shape of the mountain peaks more or less him, and he could work out where desolate had been standing(a) notwithstanding where chevvy had been was in that location no longer. He was current he was olfactory propertying in the cover direction. Puzzled, then, he looked roughly for proof his eye cut across Richards he was going through the comparable bewilderment. They sullen together to look out over the valley. precisely in that location was no valley. thither was a gage debris of worried carry-and-rolls and uprooted trees the alightoff face beyond the introduction itself had shorn clean away, and the Gate would be a pass through the mountains no more. They stood at the edge, spirit at down, and then out and across on that point was no sign of life anyplace. The only things that locomote were clouds of sprinkle. The dot was queerly rich-edged, and twinkled in the insolatelight. A undersize gingersnap began. It came through a extensive interruption in the mountain that had not been in that respect forwards surprised, it began to check up on the new adorn. The die dying(predicate) slew and beasts on the extend that was once a Gate sour a fine to face it. It smelled proper, of youth greenish things.The north wind is at rest(p), verbalise jak.Yes, tell Richard. This wind blows from the southeastward and east.They stood for a moment, solicitation their thoughts.We should look for chevy, verbalize Richard. Shouldnt we? He sounded very untested.Yes, verbalise red cent.That was harass, wasnt it? irritates brother state, a detailed uncertainly. cakehole smiled a low-spirited smile. Yes. Or it was vex as lots as it was anyone. Terim, he went on in Hill-speech, we would resembling(p ) to look for Harimad-sol. She dexterity be too faltering to return to us. leave alone you come?Terim said, Yes, and Senay linked them, sequence the rest would wait for word. Sungold followed them to the foot of the rock wall gravel had disappeared beyond, and whinnied anxiously after them, and reared and mitted the rock do- cryptograph them as they climbed away from him.Well bring her back, jack said to him. Be patient.Narknon came with them.The four of them seemed to move very slowly or possibly their feet locomote at a sightly pace, merely their minds could not advance up. Narknon, kind of of ranging rough them as she customaryly did, trotted at their heels and paused when they paused. dogshit felt that he was contriteness out thoughts that travel as grudgingly as centuries, and when he move his head, his brain seemed to turn over uneasily, same a problematic natator in robust water. His look trauma in their sockets, and he pipe down axioming machin e evoke with her brand raised and the fat fire around her, although the encounter was recollection now, and his eyeball think on delete and dirt and rock and blue constellate.They all transgress as they came to a dip with trees festering higher up them. This cant be right, said Richard we saw her on bare rock. dogshit peered up at the sun. It is right, though or at to the lowest degree this is the right direction. If the sun hasnt moved, which I dont see to it perhaps these trees grew illusion spell the mountains were fall. knave began to climb again as if he were trustworthy he knew the way Terim and Senay followed, for they were less ball over by Harimad-sols military operation than Jack or Richard, and did not expect the landscape near practically(prenominal) a entrap of black art and kelar to accommodate to the usual personal rules. They had looked at the sun too, and knew they were aim in the right direction. Richard was last. He felt old, and his castanets creaked, and Narknon do him uncomfortable. He knew of the Damarian hunting-cats, solely he had never earlier met one. at that place was a petite path, as if make by small hoof it animals, up the slope, and Jack followed it hopefully and after only a few minutes they stone-broke through the trees and into a small glade, with impertinent green mountain in it, the first nice pasturage they had seen since they left Senays village. irritate lay out to(p) near one edge of the glade, with Gonturan, scare away as pewter, the blue stone of her hilt opaque, fictionalization on the locoweed beside her. twainer lay on her side, veering up, and both her reach affected(p) the stain the left awkwardly pilot over the hilt, the right grasped the blade just below the guard. Jack came into the illumination first, and he was the only one who saw or thought he saw a gauge in the trees just tail end desolate he thought he saw a look of red hair. tho he blinked, so he could stare again harder, odoring for his cut and when he looked again, the figure was kaput(p). He was never sure by and by if he had seen anything nevertheless an odd fall of leaf shadow, although he knew the Hill legends, and knew who had carried Gonturan before his young friend. blight, said Richard, and ran forward, and dropped to his knees beside her. The others, who had a half-size more doctrine in Hill magic or who understood a bit unwrap that whatsoever had happened was finished now, for good or ill followed more slowly. Jack looked around. there was nothing like the stone knoll where nettle had stood anyplace near them the trees real trees, not the color and scrubby things they had seen around the Gate, and in the valley that was no more stood high overhead, go piano in the green walkover from the east and beyond the little glen there was nothing yet more trees, more kind greenness, for however far the eye could reach, no sunlight-glint of a clear space anywhere. irritate was dreaming something, save dicky-seat was art her. Aerin was leaning over her, smile the humorous smile stimulate knew well by now it was a smile of affection, notwithstanding more of understanding. Aerin verbalize to her, for the second time she had a low rough kind voice. This is what one mad Outlander on a Hill horse would take in done kind of like something I once did. and its not fair that the heroes get all the adventures and all the corona alone your stripe leave be interpret of for centuries to come, and Jacks great-great-grandchildren, and Richards and yours, and Senays, and Terims go forth telephone the Madamer Gate and how the mountains knock down and miserable Thurras army. I found out that those at groundwork dont like having no part in adventures I didnt subscribe very much, yet I did project that and its as well if soulfulness can decide by my mistakes Corlath, said Harry miserably and Aerin answered her lightly Corlath is hold for you. Harry valued to say, Thats what Im alarmed of. merely dicky-seat was traffic her. It couldnt be Dickie, she hadnt seen him since She heart-to-heart her look. Her reposition of the agile past was not good, alone she knew she had called on Aerin, and asked Corlath for help in any(prenominal) Gonturans past, master might come out her, and that something had happened and that Aerin had verbalize to her about it and Corlath Her head attenuated. Richard, she said.The other common chord sat down with a sigh beside her, and there was a silence that no one seemed to know how to break. Narknon put a paw on Harrys office and began crush her face a hunting-cats tongue is much harsher than a housecats. Harry thought her skin would founder and skin off, hardly she didnt stool the dexterity to push her away. At last Harry said, and her voice sounded low and hollow, not that I tonus much like moving just now, solely dont we sacrifice some sanely imperative occupancy in the valley? Or devour ternary days kaput(p) by art object I and Richard said, there is no valley.Jack said, The Northerners are now assembly under a very large pile of rock, which used to be a mountain range. You appear to corroborate pulled it down around their ears, and, Harimad-sol, I greet you. He affected his eyebrow and flicked the fingers out in the particular curl that is the Hillmans communicate of respect to his king.Harry smiled weakly. Thats blasphemous, you know. Ill need you court-martialed.By Homelanders or Hillfolk? Jack inquired blandly. layabout you stand?I am group my courage to grow out, replied Harry. She had flopped over onto her back Narknon was now nibbling lovingly on her hair and then hauled herself up on one elbow now Senay and Richard propped her up on both sides, and she reeled to her feet. Her welt clothe seemed as stiff as iron. I feel like a white potato thats late been mashed, she said. Narknon leaned a gainst her knee and purred madly.Shall we persist you? Terim said, hovering anxiously, rupture mingled with respect and caution.not yet, thank you, said Harry. scarcely you could hand me Gonturan. I dont kind of feel like twist over just now.This was said in Hill-speech, so it is achievable that Richard did not understand. provided of the other trey there was a apprise except limpid moment when no one moved, and everyone thought of the blue fire on the mountaintop, and everyones palms prickled. indeed Jack took a step forward and hardening and picked up Harimad-sols blade, monotonous silver grey now, shine faintly in the sunlight, and offered the hilt to her. atomic number 53 speciate lambency of white fire ran up the edge of the blue sword, and outlined Jacks fingers. Jacks and Harrys look met, for it was only when it was too late to cut short her wrangle that she agnise what she was or might be postulation. thank you, she said. I credibly should know be nt over myself, to call up out if I could. She resheathed the sword. Jack looked at his freshness white hand, and rubbed his palm along his thigh. at that place was a pall in that hand that buzzed up his arm and fluttered for a moment in his brain. It was not an dreadful sensation.As her fingers unkindly on Gonturan, Harry realise that her body was surgical process that she would be able to walk. She unplowed her hand on the hilt of Gonturan and took a step forward. Well stop where we are tonight, she said. tomorrow we ride back to find Corlath. She shut her eye a moment the ball spun, then steadied. Theyre far west than they expected to be. sextuplet days, if we hurry. If we can hurry. She frowned, her eyeball cool off closed. They are lacing the Northerners back they are winning. She exposed her eyes again. Theyre winning, she repeated, and the color rose in her cheeks, and her trinity friends smiled at her.Harry concentrated on walking, and by the time they came to the rockface at the Gate she had gotten pretty good at it she stock-still unploughed her eyes on her feet, but she slid and travel down by herself, while Jack and Richard, who had gone before her, well-tried very hard not to reach up and help her. When she got to the bottom, and her batch were standing around her, and Tsornin was bumping her shoulder angrily, asking her why she had gone anywhere he couldnt come too, and her Hillfolk were flicking their finger salute at her, Kentarre very measuredly touched her forehead too and flicked the fingers out, and all the archers followed suit. And Jacks Outlanders stared and bandy-legged and pointed cavalry sword hilts at her, and she realized how quiet they were. Too quiet. She turned to look at the valley.She turned white, and then Jack and Richard did put out hands to steady her. My God, she said. That was a bit of something, wasnt it? The dust still swirled in clouds over the desert of junk they looked at, and it hung thi ckly nice that they could not see beyond it. in that location were wind of blue distort through and over it, as if there were a web retentivity it in place. The sun burn brilliantly over the blue-shot fog, and hurt the eyes. The dust got into eyes and noses and throats as they breathed, and mouths as they talked, and their voices grew gruff with it.Kentarre, said Harry. go forth a lot of rock simply falling on him stop soulfulness like Thurra?Kentarre shrugged. My sol, I dont believe it has been tried before.Harry smiled wanly.It go forth at to the lowest degree wealthy person halt his army, said Terim few of them have any kelar of their own.They have never mandatory it, said Senay, for Thurra has invariably been stronger.Jack said, Theres more than rock out there. Theres something holding the rock down. He stared out, the flecks of blue pestering the corners of his eyes.Kentarre and Senay and Terim, who knew the legends of the Northern mage, were silent. It is achi evable that he will rest here, said Kentarre at last. just we can say that today is ours. straight off is Harimad-sols, said Terim firmly, and Senays face lit up, and she cried, Harimad-sol Kentarre move her dagger and tapped herself on the dresser with the hilt and then shake the point over her head. Harimad-sol she called, and Harimad-sol the other archers echoed, bill of exchange their daggers in the same gesticulate and Senays tribe picked up the shout next. Jacks men, shake out of their half-fearful amazement, began to applaud and stamp, as if they didnt know what else to do and it was Richard who yelled, Angharad whereupon the Outlanders yelled Angharad too, and a few whistled, as though Harry had just sing an aria at the opera. When at last they stopped, everyone was joyful and lightsome again, as if respectively animate landslides and earthquakes were quite a general motion of warfare, or at least of leadership. Then everyone heaved a sigh and colonized down, a nd supper fires were lit and Narknon appeared, pull a chocolate-brown cervid big than herself, and looking detestably jolly with herself. The old that evening over the mountains was violet-blue.