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was going to ensorcel my heart. And she did, truly, but whether she used the wretched feathers or not, I
wouldnтАЩt know. She didnтАЩt need them.тАЭ Abruptly Aethan rose to his feet. тАЬIs there aught else you want
from me, my lord?тАЭ

тАЬNaught, and forgive me for opening an old wound.тАЭ

With a toss of his head Aethan strode off into the darkness. Maddyn hesitated, then decided it would be
best to leave him alone with his ancient grief.

тАЬIam sorry,тАЭ Nevyn said. тАЬDid Aethan get thrown out of the warband for courting the gwerbretтАЩs
sister?тАЭ

тАЬHe did, but things came to a bit more than fine words and flowers, or so I understand.тАЭ

тАЬAh. I saw the Lady Merodda once. She was the most poisonous woman IтАЩve ever laid eyes on. I
wonder, lad. I truly wonder about all of this. Here, keep what you just heard to yourself, will you? The
men have got enough to worry about as it is.тАЭ

тАЬAnd I donтАЩt, I suppose.тАЭ

тАЬOh, here.тАЭ Nevyn chuckled to himself. тАЬAs if you werenтАЩt burning with curiosity.тАЭ

тАЬMy heart was ice, sure enough. Well, my lord, IтАЩm about snoring where I stand, and IтАЩd best get some
sleep.тАЭ
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Once he lay down in his blankets, Maddyn drifted straight off, but he did wake once, not long before
dawn, to see Nevyn still sitting up and staring into the last embers of the fire.

On the morrow a subdued troop of silver daggers rode straight home to Dun Drwloc. That night Nevyn
summoned Maddyn and Caradoc to the kingтАЩs private chambers for a conference. Casyl had a map of
the three kingdoms, drawn in great detail by the priests of Wmm, and, as he remarked, it had cost him far
more than the weight of its thin parchment in gold. While Nevyn and the king chewed over the problems
involved in getting Maryn to Cerrmor, Maddyn stared fascinated at the map in the flaring candlelight.
Although he couldnтАЩt read, he could pick out the rivers and the mountains, the Canaver and the Cantrae
hills where heтАЩd lived his early life, the long rivers of central Deverry running down from the northern
mountains, and, finally, the Aver El, the river with the foreign name whose source lay in the lake just
outside the window of the conference room.

All the borders of the kingdoms and their provinces were there, too, marked in red. Even without letters
Maddyn could see that it was going to be a long ride and a dangerous one from Loc Drw down to
Cerrmor. As long as the prince was in Pyrdon, he was safe, but the Pyrdon border lay a good hundred
miles from the border of the Cerrmor holdings. Part of his journey, therefore, would have to lie through
hostile Cantrae lands.

тАЬIt aches my heart that some enemy knows of MarynтАЩs Wyrd.тАЭ CasylтАЩs voice brought Maddyn back to
the present meeting. тАЬWhat matters the most, of course, is where their lands are, and whether or not the