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"What?"

She shifted, shy again. "The spring council. It's
nothing of my business, but I didn't think you had
ridden for three days to find out if we were first or

third cousins."

Raederie smiled. "No. I ran away from home."

10

Heir of Sea and Fire

"You . . . Does your father know where you
are?"

*'I always assume he knows everything." She
reached for another stem of grass. The odd, tenta-
tive frown moved again into her face; she looked up
suddenly to meet the pig-woman's eyes. For a mo-
ment, the direct, grey gaze seemed a stranger's
look, curious, measuring, with the same question in
it that she had barely put words to. Then the pig-
woman's head bowed; she reached down to pick an
acom out of an angle of root and tossed it to the
black sow. Raederie said softly, "Ylon .. ."

"He's why you can do these small things I teach
you so well. He and Madir. And your father with
his mind."

**Maybe. ButЧ" She shook the thought away
and leaned back again to breathe the tranquil air.
"My father could see a shadow in a barrow, but I
wish he didn't have a mouth like a clam. It's good
to be away from that house. It grew so quiet last
winter I thought whatever words we spoke would
freeze solid in the air. I thought that winter would
never end ..."

"It was a bad one. The Lord had to send for feed
from Aum and pay double because Aum itself was
growing short of corn. We lost some of the herd; one
of the great boars, AloilЧ"

"Aloil?"

The pig-woman looked suddenly a little flustered.