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came down from the hills, and that day and the next the Kargs were harried
back down to the beaches above East Port, where they found their ships burnt;
so they fought with their backs to the sea till every man of them was killed,
and the sands of Armouth were brown with blood until the tide came in.
But on that morning in Ten Alders village and up on the High Fall, the
dank grey fog had clung a while, and then suddenly it blew and drifted and
melted away. This man and that stood up in the windy brightness of the
morning, and looked about him wondering. Here lay a dead Karg with yellow hair
long, loose; and bloody; there lay the village tanner, killed in battle like a
king.
Down in the village the house that bad been set afire still blazed. They
ran to put the fire out, since their battle had been won. In the street, near
the great yew, they found Duny the bronze-smith's son standing by himself,
bearing no hurt, but speechless and stupid like one stunned. They were well
aware of what he had done, and they led him into his father's house and went
calling for the witch to come down out of her cave and heal the lad who had
saved their lives and their property, all but four who were killed by the
Kargs, and the one house that was burnt.
No weapon-hurt had come to the boy, but he would not speak nor eat nor
sleep; he seemed not to hear what was said to him, not to see those who came
to see him. There was none in those parts wizard enough to cure what ailed
him. His aunt said, "He has overspent his power," but she had no art to help
him.
While he lay thus dark and dumb, the story of the lad who wove the fog
and scared off Kargish swordsmen with a mess of shadows was told all down the
Northward Vale, and in the East Forest, and high on the mountain and over the
mountain even in the Great Port of Gont. So it happened that on the fifth day
after the slaughter at Armouth a stranger came into Ten Alders village, a man
neither young nor old, who came cloaked and bareheaded, lightly carrying a
great staff of oak that was as tall as himself. He did not come up the course
of the Ar like most people, but down, out of the forests of the higher
mountainside. The village goodwives saw well that he was a wizard, and when he
told them that he was a healall, they brought him straight to the smith's
house. Sending away all but the boy's father and aunt the stranger stooped
above the cot where Duny lay staring into the dark, and did no more than lay
his hand on the boy's forehead and touch his lips once.
Duny sat up slowly looking about him. In a little while he spoke, and
strength and hunger began to come back into him. They gave him a little to
drink and eat, and he lay back again, always watching the stranger with dark
wondering eyes.
The bronze-smith said to that stranger, "You are no common man."
"Nor will this boy be a common man," the other answered. "The tale of
his deed with the fog has come to Re Albi, which is my home. I have come here
to give him his name, if as they say he has not yet made his passage into
manhood."
The witch whispered to the smith, "Brother, this must surely be the Mage
of Re Albi, Ogion the Silent, that one who tamed the earthquake-"
"Sir," said the bronze-smith who would not let a great name daunt him,
"my son will be thirteen this month coming, but we thought to hold his Passage
at the feast of Sunreturn this winter."