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The Dancers of Arun
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
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Copyright (c)1979 by Elizabeth A. Lynn


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Kerris woke.
He stretched. He was stiff and cold. The pallet under him was
thin and prickly; he had slept far from the chimneys, in the place
nearest the door. The morning sun came through the high unpaned
windows of the barracks, gilding the dirty tapestries into pale
color, and the sky, through the narrow slits, was gray, distant, and
chilly.
Swallowing, he tasted the salt of last night's pork. Beside
him an off-watch guard thrashed, caught in an evil dream. Kerris
tugged his boots on. The laces flapped. He tied them. The unyielding
strings kept slipping from his hand. His fingers were cold.
He blew on them to warm them. His stump ached and he rubbed
it. A dog barked. Someone shouted in the courtyard. Passing his hand
through his tangled hair, Kerris rose and picked his way around
huddled sleepers to the Keep kitchen.
A leather curtain separated kitchen and barracks, and through
it he could hear people talking. He pushed it aside and went in. The
room was hot. The oven fires had been lit. An hour-candle burned in a
tiled niche. Apprentice cooks, hands covered with grease and flour,
hurried past him. An assistant cook wearing a white cloth apron stood