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’I didn’t know you for the melodramatic type’

’I am not-’

’She is an old wo woman Abyss take me, leave her alone-’

’You are not listening!’ Silverfox hissed ’My htmare -- within her own mind, lost, terrified Hunted! I have stayed closer to her than any of you realized Far closer!’

’Silverfox,’ Paran said quietly, ’if she is within a night has become a curse The only true mercy is to see it ended, once and for all’

’No! She is my mother, damn you! And I will not abandon her !’

She wheeled her horse, drove her heels into its flanks

Paran watched her ride off Silverfox, what machinations have you wrapped around your mother? What is it you seek for her? Would you not tell us, please, so that we are made to understand that e all see as betrayal is in fact so else?

And these machinations -- whose? Not Tattersail, surely No, this htchill Oh, how you’ve closed yourself to me, now When once you reached out, incessantly, relentlessly seeking to pry open o in Pale, is as nothing

I begin to think, now, that it was far more important to me than it was to you Tattersail you were, after all, an older woman You’d lived your share of loves and losses On the other hand, I’d barely lived at all

What was, then, is no more

Flesh and blood Bonecaster, you’ve become colder than the T’lan Imass you now command

I suppose, then, they have indeed found a worthy master

Beru fend us all

Of the thirty transport barges and floating bridges the Pannions had used to cross the Catlin River, only a third re fallen prey to the overzealous White Face Barghast during the first day of battle Companies froun efforts at salvaging the wrecks with the intention of cobbling together a few e and the ten surviving barges already rode the lines across the river’s expanse, loaded with troops, mounts and supplies