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. LEGENDS, I, p. 94.
29. CHRONICLES. I, pp. 442-445.
30. LEGENDS, III, p. 164.
options, all the pretty faces'). As indecisive on policy as he
was on matters of women (see note to line 93), Tanis often
came to Armavir for advice on both fronts. Without this
counsel, the quest would have turned into a kender fire drill
on a number of occasions, and a tangled romantic life could
have brought all Krynn to destruction.
I still have Tanis's draft of his farewell note to Kitiara - a
draft refined and expanded, as the reader knows, by more
poetic hands - but the text, here printed for the first time in
its entirety, will give the reader an idea of the shuttling way
in which the leader of the Companions thought:
KITIARA, OF ALL THE DAYS THESE DAYS
ARE FILLED WITH WAITING (BUT THERE WERE THOSE DAYS
FOUR YEARS AGO, WHEN I AWAITED YOU,
AND THEN AGAIN, THOSE DAYS AT THE LAST HOME
I WAITED MORE THAN I HAD FOUR YEARS AGO,
BUT NOT AS MUCH as ... MAYBE I SHOULD SAY,
OF MOST OF THE DAYS THESE DAYS,
OF SOME OF THE DAYS, OF FEW, OH NEVER MIND.
His policy decisions were painful to watch. By the time the
Companions had reached Solace, Tanis had taken to
standing on battlements, dressed in black and holding a
skull in one hand, discussing with the skull (or with
Armavir, when the poet had nothing better to do or when it
was not bath time among the Companions) as to which
hamlet, which village the party should pass through next
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