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you seek to your will."

"Nay, Sister. You do not fully understand the matter."

"Yet do you not all admit that I have certain gifts none f the
rest of you possess? Is that not why I was brought amon your
number? Is it not fitting that you let me try my hand ii this in
case your other plan fails? Then you will see what I aiij
capable of."

"I am against it. "

"Yours is not the final word. Let the others speak."

Wind sighed in the distant trees and hummed through ths
stones. A hare bounded into view, froze, its ears twitching, anl
then flinched and leaped away into the cover of mustard flowei
and sedge.

"We risk nothing if she fails," said a third voice. "If she suA,
ceeds, we benefit, for then our absent sister can return her(
quickly and we can return to our work that much sooner."

Hard upon these words came a fourth voice, "I am curious. I
would like a demonstration of these methods we have heart
so much about."

"I care not, " said the fifth voice, so faint that the sound o it
almost died on the wind. "This is a trifle. Do as you wish."

Now the first spoke again. "Then I will attempt it. What hat
eluded you for so long will not elude me! "

The owl glided down in a spiral. With sudden grace it foldei its
wings and, heedless of the flames, came to rest on the
smooti knob at the top of . The sun's light pierced th last
strings of mist and broke brightly across the grandeur the
stone circle.

Between one moment and the next, van ishedЧand the owl
with it.

IN any village, a stranger attracts noticeЧand distrust. But
Eagles weren't strangers, precisely; they were
interchangeable, an arm of the kingЧhis wings, so to
speakЧand they might come flying through and, after a meal
and a night's sleep, fly away again, never truly at rest.

Liath had discovered that as a King's Eagle her only solitude
on any errand she rode for the king came while actually on the