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Hannan Mosag had proclai the Edur Old eanceOld men and the dead stood at the same wall, and while the dead faced it, old men held their backs to it Beyond that as oblivion They spoke fro onto identical paths, if only to giveto all they had known and all they had done

Feuds were now forbidden Criraced execution

Trull Sengar had watched, froloom beneath a tree – the body before him – had watched his brother Rhulad walk out into the forest In these, the dark hours, he had been furtive in his e

Into the forest, onto the north trail

That led to the cemetery that had been chosen for the Beneda warrior’s interainst the night

It may be an attes that have occurred before, many times She is unknowable As all women are unknowable But he isn’t He was too late to the war and so his belt is bare He would draw blood another way

Because Rhulad e of his life, the narrow strand he hiht observed – whether it be real or iined matters not – every silent moment that, to him, screams scorn upon the vast e worth fighting for is gained without fighting Every struggle is a struggle against doubt Honour is not a thing to be chased, for it, as with all other forces of life, is in fact iht for you The moment of collision is where the truth of you is revealed

An attee in her eyes

Or their arms are noined, and in the darkness there is heat and sweat And betrayal

And he could not il above this anonymous Beneda warrior

His brother Fear had made a sword, as was the custo on the backs of his hands And she had stepped forward, witnessed by all, to take the weapon fro it back to her home

Betrothal

A year from that day – less than five weeks froe fro it to excavate a trench before the threshold, she would set it down in the earth and bury it Iron and soil, weapon and hoe

Before that day when Fear presented the sword, Rhulad had not once looked at Mayen Was it the uninterest of youth? No, the Edur were not like Letherii A year a the Edur There were a handful of prettier wo the maidens of noble-born households But he had set his eyes upon her thereafter