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PART ONE

Danlo the Wild




CHAPTER ONE

Shaida

All that is not halla, is shaida.
For a man to kill what he cannot eat, that is shaida;
For a man to kill an imakla animal that is shaida, too.
It is shaida for a man to die too soon;
It is shaida for a man to die too late.
Shaida is the way of the man who kills other men;
Shaida is the cry of the world when it has lost its soul.
тАУ from the Devaki Song of Life

This is the story of my son, Danlo wi Soli Ringess. I came
to know him very well, though it was his fate (and my own) that
he grew up wild, a lost manchild living apart from his true
people. Until he came to Neverness, he knew almost nothing of
his heritage or the civilized ways of the City of Light; in
truth, he did not really know he was a human being. He thought
of himself as an Alaloi, as one of that carked race of men and