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and looked back at our smug-faced sister- "What has
Ceinn to say about how much you know of warriors?"

"Quite a lot," she answered off-handedly. "He has
asked me to be bis cheysula."

"Cemn?" lan, knowing the warriors better than I, could
afford to sound astonished; all I could do was stare. "Are
you sure he said cheysula and not meijha?"

"The words do have entirely different sounds," 'Solde
told him pointedly, which would not please lan any at
all. But then, of course, she did not mean to. "And I do
know the difference."

lan scowled. "Isolde, he has said nothing to me about
it."

"You have been in Mujhara," she reminded him. "For
weeks. Months. And besides, he is not required to say
anything to you. It is me for whom he wishes to offer."

lan, still scowling, cast a glance at me- "Well? Are you
going to say nothing to her?"

"Perhaps I might wish her luck," I answered gravely,
"Whenever has anything we have said to her made the


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slightest amount of difference?"

"Oh, it has," Isolde said. "You just never noticed."

lan shut his eyes. "Her mind, small as it is, astonishes
me with its capacity for stubbornness, once a decision is
made." Eyes open again, he twisted his mouth in a wry
grimace of resignation. "Niall has the right of it: nothing
we say will make any difference. ButтАФwhy Ceinn?"

"Ceinn pleases me," she answered simply. "Should
there be another reason?"

lan glanced at me, and I knew our thoughts ran along
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similar paths: for a woman like our sister, a free Cbeysuli
woman with only bastard ties to royalty, there need be