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I think it was on the secondere in New Viron that he told ht We slept on the boat the first night Next day Uncle Calf invited us to stay with hi did before I slept in the room that had been ours, and he slept in the one that had been Vadsig's

"I have had a great ine everyone e as this I woke in the ot up and relieved myself, walked around the room, looked out theat the stars, and returned to bed"

"What was your drea in bed; and Scylla was so She spoke to er hear her I put e"

I asked who Scylla was, and he said that she was a goddess, and had been patroness of Viron back in the old whorl; when he said that, I re lake there and Scylla was the goddess of the lake They had gods and goddesses for all sorts of things

"Scylla possessed a woman I knew once," he told me "She illful and violent"

I said, "But the Scylla you dreaoddess, was it?" and I asked him if there had ever been a real Scylla

"Yes," he said "Yes, that's the terrible part" Then he said so I did not understand at all: "I feel sorry for Beroep" Beroep was a man we used to know in Dorp

For the next two or three days, he stayed up late walking the streets at night or sitting in taverns I ith hiot Aunt Cowslip's son Cricket to watch our boat so Babbie could coht itus about people behind us or watching from shadows

So questions When he thought he had their friendship, he asked theers and the sick Sometimes we looked for the sick people afterward so he could talk to them and the people who took care of the care of and spent half a day cleaning and feeding hi their sick and asking Father to pray for them

"If Scylla were here, I'd ask her to heal you," he told one woh she oddess in any case, not even in Old Viron" The woman asked hiods ht hear hio back to Uncle's and take Babbie and the bird, but Father would not go unless we ca me? Gyrfalcon will be furious when he finds out you killed me"

Their leader said, "We'll pick you up and carry you, if we have to"

"You cannot," he told hirabbed for him, but Father knocked hiun at hi fro by then

Gyrfalcon had a big house south of town He met us on the walk, and shook hands "So," he said, "have you come to take New Viron froarden behind the house and sat down at a little round table The crocuses were up, the blue cup-o'-scents, and row froot the little knife out of his pen case and ripped the herains of corn in there, black, red, and white He gave them all to Gyrfalcon "Cross these," he said, "but always keep the pure strains for the years to cory"

Gyrfalcon took them, tied them up in his handkerchief, and put it in a pocket inside his tunic Father cried then for a long tiht us wine and food, both very good I ate and gave some to Babbie, and drank more than I should have

"Is this your father?" Gyrfalcon asked nize him"

I said, "Well, I do"

"If this is your father, where is Calde Silk?" Gyrfalcon thought he was being very smart when he asked that

"In a book my mother and father wrote," I told him

"You are Horn? The saot the invitation from Pajarocu?"

"I am," Father said

"You live on Lizard, near the tail, and make paper?"

He nodded

"Nettle's husband?"

"Yes, and the father of Sinew, Hoof, and Hide I am also the father of Krait and Jahlee, neither of whom you knoill ever know-both are dead If you wish to continue to explore family connections, I am the father-in-law of a worandfather of their sons Shauk and Karn, as well"

Gyrfalcon sratulate you"

The bird see praised, and it called out, "Good Silk!" three or four ti Babbie's ears "My son Hide will co They will be married by Patera Reements"

"Assisted by you, financially So I've heard"

"Correct They know the town, as Hoof and I do not"

I spoke up then even though I should not have, saying I had been learning a good deal about it recently

"Prowling over it at night with your Father? Sitting in bottle shops Who are you looking for?"

I said I did not know

"Who are you looking for, Horn? As calde of our city, I think ed He had not eaten a bite till then, but he picked up a sparkle and began to peel it "For a friend, that's all I don't know his name Or hers I'll learn it when I find the person"

"You have graciously answered allfun of Father, but you could tell he admired him too "Will you tolerate a few more?"

"If you will tolerate one fro-to reat honor for hie of your hospitality, I realize"

Gyrfalcon stared, then laughed He has a big boo?"

"Yes," Father said, "I do I want you there very hted, I', Gyrfalcon sipped a little wine "You promised to answer some more questions for me if I would answer that one I suppose you ive you an answer you liked"

"Why no Any answer And I' you to consider it I kno many demands there must be on your time, and in all honesty you are entitled to ask all the questions you wish"

Gyrfalcon leaned back and surveyed us, looked around at his garden, and ca at Father and me like he never saw us before "Do you think my wine's poisoned?"