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Its name had been Galasien once, a city of broad…
Spatters of rain on the dust.
Once a thought began it might go anywhere and everywhere.
After a dry spell, the rain built in the north…
He could see Mauryl in the silver reflection, standing behind…
Tristen’s ears still rang. His flesh still was chilled by…
The water was brownish green and fast-running beneath him, as…
Morning came as the frogs predicted, with a sprinkling of…
The assizes were done, the evening headache, promoted by a…
Idrys occupied the chair opposite him when he waked—Idrys sat…
He heard a clatter in the yard in the morning,…
Words trembled in air, writings black and red, Names, that…
One of the men said he knew the way, and…
“I done what I knew,” Uwen said. The veteran’s voice…
Guards snapped to attention at the doors, and another pair…
Fawn-colored velvet stitched with silver thread, blue hose, a silver…
The bell at the lower town gates tolled arrivals.
The sun was far declined and red when the remaining…
There was formal display in the grand hall, which was…
The sun flooded through the panes of a room grown…
Curse his father’s damnable suspicion, Cefwyn thought: and jerked back…
There were dreams.
The rain was a misery, pouring off the tent, finding…
The leg ached, a constant pain that preyed on temper,…
Petelly had tired, long since—had run as far as he…
Sullen, dejected men rose from their seats near the one…
Emuin had hangover, abundantly, the natural and just result of…
Gossip had run the halls all evening and it had…
In the press of time, as regarded what the King…
The next was one of those silken satin mornings, the…
In two days a Frost had come, and rimed the…
It was a night impossible to sleep, the courtyard rumbling…
All about them now were meadows and forest-crowned hills, low…
He held out his arms patiently as Uwen assisted him…