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serve so much better, and you certainly didn't ask for this.
I don't want to make it worse for you. I'm just a kid."

Niobe, her pulse racing, focused on the single thing.
"When? When did you know you loved me?"

He shrugged, as if passing it off as something beneath
notice. "That first dayЧwhen you sang in the swamp.
When you cried for the wetlands. I never heard anything
soЧ" He spread his hands, lacking a word.

"But I'm not even a good singer!"

"You believe!'" he said seriously. "You really do love
the wetlandsЧand I do too, now, because of you. What
you love, / love."

"Cedric, you never saidЧ"

"And make another fool of myself?" he asked with mild
bitterness. "And maybe drive you away? Because here's
this gangling boy mooning over you? I'm not that stupid."

"Cedric, you aren't stupid at all! You're a fine ladЧa
fine young man! I'm sure thatЧ"

"Please, can't we just forget it?"

"No, we can't! Cedric, I can't claim I love youЧthat
sort of thing is more gradual with a woman, andЧ"




With a Tangled Skein

16

"And there has to be a man."

"Cedric!"

He just looked at her, and looked away. She knew there
was no way to make him lose sight of the truth: that she

didn't see him as a man.

Niobe had generally gotten her way, in life. This time
her beauty acted against her. It was, she realized, time
that she herself grew up. She would do what had to be