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. The ancestors
had yet to bring Riverwind to his knees, and Goldmoon
wondered if he attributed his victory to whatever gods he
did worship. As he came forward with the others to collect
his sparring pole, the priestess watched him deliberately,
but he gave no sign at all that he detected the switch she had
made. He did, however, look up at her and smile.
The grim hunter's expression disappeared from his eyes.
His smile was that of a young man, warm and friendly, and
Goldmoon saw there the loyalty her father had not
questioned.
The final event was longsticks, a contest fought in a large
circle, in which the fighters had to stay armed and within
the circle. At the judge's signal, the men engaged each other
with dangerous thrusts and parries, and the crack of wood
shattered the air.
Two men quickly managed to knock each other out of
the ring and roll clumsily into the crowd, instantly
disqualifying themselves. Goldmoon saw that Hawker and
Hollow-sky were being very aggressive, smashing at their
opponents' weapons time and again. Riverwind, with a
series of unrelenting, well-timed jabs and blows, wore down
his opponent, Treewhistle, until Treewhistle lost his grip on
his pole
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