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gnarled tree, a mountain black-thorn, which had been
struck by lightning and scarred along one side of its bent,
trunk. The rock was scratched and indented with written
characters; the tree itself was strung with loose clumps of
thread, of varying thickness, knotted in certain patterns.
"Well, someone has not forgotten," said Scott Gale.
"What do the skeins say?"
They walked to the tree, and Dorn climbed the rock and
felt at the largest message skein. He read off the woven
symbols: "Praise to our Mother, the North Wind, and to
Eddorn who found great fortune for his Family." Then he
reached for another skein.
"Send us a Luck to equal the Luck of Brin's Five."
Scott Gale shook his head and smiled sadly. "I wish them
better luck than that," he said. He came to the rock and
stood with Dorn looking down, between the rock and the
tree, at a narrow grave, carefully covered with round
stones.
They went down and sat on the strip of white sand by
the water's edge.
"It should all be told," said Dorn. "It is part of this
world's history."

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I
"The way human beings came to Torin?"
"Our part of it," said Dorn, "the part that I remember
... that first winter and the spring that came after it, when
you first joined our Family and travelled with us."
"Then you must write it," said Scott Gale. "No one else
could do it so well. You will be Dorn Utragan pretty
soon ... Utragan, the scribe in two languages. The first
on Torin."
"It has been a long time," said Dorn. "I am hardly the
same person.)l
"You are not an ancient yet . Scott Gale grinned.
Dorn blinked and laughed; he was about to throw a stone
into the lake but instead he pointed, with a hand to his lips
for silence. A bird, about the size of a large kingfisher, came
gliding out of the trees and swung down low over the
surface of the water; its wings flashed a dark, iridescent
blue.
"What is that called, then?" Dorn asked in a whisper.
"Great Wind!" said Scott Gale. "It must be a Diver!"