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The Golden Sword


The Golden Sword
Silistra, Book 2
Janet E. Morris
1977

ISBN: 0-671-55919-2

MY EYES SWAM WITH TEARS
УDo not take my chald from me.Ф I faced him, my back against the laced tent
flap, my hands clenched behind me.
УCrells do not wear chalds,Ф Chayin said flatly. УIt lessens their beauty, their
usefulness, their humility. It slows their adjustment. Remove it.Ф
I put my hands to my chald, running the strands through my fingers. I found the
juncture, took the tiny key from its housing, and fitted the key in the lock.
The ends parted. I took my eighteen-strand chald in my palms and looked at it.
I saw the silver chain with white interwoven, that of Well Astria. I saw the six
brass mixed, of my schooling, and the Well-KeepressТ chain, of white gold set
with fire gems. That one had been mine when I was born. The others I had spent
three hundred and two years acquiring. What is a Silistran without chaldra?
I would kill him.
to Sydny Weinberg
Contents
Replication
I. Ors Yris-tera
II. Chosen Son of Tar-Kesa
III. Crell
Clearing the Way
IV. Tiaskchan
V. The Golden Sword
Stalking
VI. The Ebvrasea
VII. The Liaison First
The Viable
VIII. Well Astria Revisited
IX. УI Am the Hest and the SortФ
Postscript
Glossary
Silistran Calendar
Replication
The dayglass, alone, posited upon the black square of controlling Will on the
board of catalysts.
As events are conceived by. all-pervading Will and brought into time by the
Weathers, so are they given spatial reality by Replication.
Replication gives instruction and molds the world in its image.
Replication has no foes, nor can a thousand Х armies stand against it. There is
no obstructing the time of Replication, when the crux wind blows across the
earth and all things assume their true nature.
The wind of the First Weather blows across the sea and the tides are remade in