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Hanna riding in the train of a battered arrassy landscape h seated at a feast in the place of honor next to a laughing man ears a crown of iron, yet as she takes in her breath sharply, horrified to see Hugh’s beautiful face, he looks up, startled, just as if he has heard her He turns to speak intently to the veiled wo with bowed shoulders down a forest path She forlances up and speaks, audibly: "Liath?"

La on its walls People have gathered around King Henry--she recognizes his her, her vision pulls past him to that which she ! The baby is crying, struggling in Heribert’s arms as she reaches out for her mother

"Ma! Ma!" the infant cries

Blessing can see her!

"Blessing!" she cries Then she sees hi out of a shadowed corner Maybe her heart will break, because she lant!"

He leaps forward "Liath!" But a figure jerks hione

"Look!" shouted Cat Mask

Through the fading blaze, Liath saw a sleeping man His head was turned away frouardians He stirred in his sleep That fast, fire and vision vanished, and the flas to reveal Feather Cloak standing unhar so hard she could not stand

"Let this be a sign," said Feather Cloak sternly "Who a you saw the Impatient One and the man who must be her son, who partakes both of our blood and of human blood?"

But the others had not seen the vision made of fire, and Liath was too shaken to speak

"She must leave," said Feather Cloak to Eldest Uncle "She bears an ill-oreat, and like all of humankind, she does not understand it I have spoken"

"So be it," said Eldest Uncle

Cat Mask juth!"