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Gryphon in Glory by Andre Norton
Joisan
ABOUT ME THERE WAS ONLY THE GRAY LIGHT OF PREDAWN, WHICH left the ridges
black
and harsh against the sky. Like all who deal secretly, I used this cover of
shadows as I prepared to ride forth. Though I believed I was well armed in
spirit for what I must do, still I shivered under my mail and leather as if I
needed the cloak now rolled behind my saddle.
"Lady JoisanтАФ"
That voice out of the dark, deep-set Abbey gate gave me a start. I swung
around,
my hand going without bid of conscious thought to the hilt of the sword
swinging
heavy at my belt.
"LadyтАж"
It was Nalda, who had been my right hand, and sometimes the left also, when
the
invaders drove us out of Ithdale and we wandered guideless westward across
unknown lands. Last night I had given her, not my orders, but my confidence.
She had listened as I pointed out that those who were left of our people were
now safe in Norsdale, that they would continue to be given shelter and work
by
the Dames, even as were the other refugees who had come this far, there being
no
near fear to trouble their future.
"But you," she said, shrewdly seizing upon what must have colored my voice,
"you
speak as if you will not be here."
"I will notтАФfor a space. None of us can know what lies ahead from one day's
dawning to the next. I have been your lady, and, in a manner, also your lord,
during our wanderings. Now I must consider my own affairs."
"My lady, do you go to seek him, thenтАФmy Lord Amber?"
"Not Amber!" My answer had been sharp. That was the name we had given him
when
he first found us and we had thought him one of the Old Ones aiding us
because
of some whim. "You know that he is my wedded lordтАФKerovan. Yes, I must go to
himтАФor at least seek him. I must. Nalda."
I had hesitated then, shy of revealing my feelings to anyone, even to Nalda,
true of heart though she had always been. But she had nodded. "When my lord
rode
forth these five days pastтАФI knew you would follow, my lady. There is the
bond
between you, which cannot be denied. Nor are you one to abide behind safe
walls