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afraid?"

"It's not fear that's made my sorrow. It's regret for you," she replied
evenly, her rigid control re-established. "Lugh, you will not be fighting
here. You must run. .. and quickly!"

"Run from this?" he asked, struggling to understand. "You'll need every
man..."

She seized his shoulders in a tight grip.

"Listen! Listen to me! I know what we're facing here. There's nothing we can
do to hold these men for long. You have to get away!"

"But, what about the rest of you?"

"The rest, all of us, are here only to protect you. All of these years, our
only purpose has been to keep you safe!"

"Why?" he asked again, more urgently. Things were happening so fast he
couldn't think. There were too many questions.

"I cannot tell you. And there is no more time for talk. You only need to know
that we have one aim here ... to keep you alive. You must believe me and you
must leave! If you don't, our lives here have been meaningless."

A sudden, burning wind blasted through the open windows of the hall. The force
of it rocked the entire building. The roar of it deafened them like the
combined fury of a score of gales.
Taiilta and Lugh recovered from the shock and ran to the windows whose
shutters had been torn away by the power of the blast. Below them the thick
outer wall of the fortress was torn open, gaping like a jagged wound. The
rubble of the massive stones was scattered about the inner court. Half the men
of the companies were scattered too, killed or wounded by debris, stunned by
the blast, buried in piles of splintered rock. The rest were trying gallantly
to reform before a stream of heavily armed warriors already pouring through
the opening.

"How could they tear down the wall so quickly?' Lugh asked, astounded by the
force evidenced below. 'And who are those warriors?" There was something about
them that stirred vague, unsettling memories in him.

But Taiilta gave him no chance to think.

THE SEA GOD 7

"There's no more time!" she cried, seizing his arm. "Come

with me!"