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The camp looked good, Aurian thought. She wished she could live
here. Forral had slung a rope between two sturdy trees and untied
a rolled sheet of oiled canvas from behind his saddle. He hung
this over the rope so that both sides reached the ground, then
pulled the two sides apart and weighted them with stones to form a
rough tent.

"But the wind will blow through," Aurian objected.

Forral shrugged. "I've put up with worse." He was cross, though,
when she told him that he couldn't burn any of the wood in the
Valley. Her mother had set. spells to protect it, and brought in
fuel for the tower from outside. Aurian had a terrible time
convincing him of the danger, but to her relief he finally gave
in, though with ill grace. "I can live without a fire for now, but
Eilin had better hurry up and come to her senses before winter,"
he growled.

When her mother called her in at dusk there was trouble, of
course. Eilin, gazing tight-lipped out the window at Forral's
camp, forbade Aurian to speak to him, or go anywhere near him. But
the swordsman's cheerful defiance had filled Aurian with newfound
courage.

> "I will talk to him, and you can't stop me!" she blurted out.
Eilin stared at her in amazement, her face darkening with anger.
Aurian's rebellion earned her a thrashing, but it only

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increased her determination. When it was over she turned on her
mother. "I hate you!" she sobbed, "and you won't stop me from
being friends with Forral no matter what you do to me!"

Eilin's eyes blazed. "Don't count on it. He won't be here for
long."

"He will! He promised!"



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