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So many mysteries to unravel! So much to discover! Alain

"Go Go," she called to thee and Sibold did not hesitate They were bold and eager They crossed under the glittering arch and walked into the east, Sharp Edge to teach and learn frouard her and care for the horses and gear

The threads pulled taut as the stars wheeled on their nightly round It was tiht betwixt and between Always, the yearning to go, and always, the yearning to stay

There!

An old man rides alone on a lonely road, his back to her She cannot see his face, but she knoho he is, the last of his kind Alht

She hears the tentative noises of folk beginning to shuffle their feet, yawn, roith hunger Sohts the world, and, of course, those who are not caught in the weaving as it unravels laugh with him

A hound yips

She sees the black hound as it halts to stare back at her through the crooven out of the stars Itsback The hounds can see her, because she is heir to Lavas They gave her a litter of puppies, but they theed to her

Ahead of them on the path, a dark-haired ht, shadows falling long but not yet swar the edge of the trees Hefarther here it is still day, or perhaps this is another day, one not yet come The salamander eyes she took from her mother can discern shapes in what to huht

He pauses where a wild bra vine boasts only one delicate blood-red blooh to lend the snarl of branches an intense beauty Because he bends to lookwithin the pale leaves, not yet flowered It’s only that one htens, calls his hounds, and walks on, into the haze that marks the land beyond She takes a step, and another, to follow hi?"

After all, the gate scattered into a spray of incandescent sparks, and she turned, and came home