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The smell of oil in the room. My nurse has lit a lamp so
she may continue to write. Bad for the eyes, my dear. They
play tricks enough as it is. We shall continue this in the
morning.
TWO
It was Breca's answer we awaited, there on the road to
the tower, the landscape white on white and blending into a
faraway whiteness, only the thin dark lines of the trees and
the shapes among them giving us any idea of distance, of
measure. And the answer, though it lay nowhere within the
rules set down by chivalry, not a THEE or a THOU or an
elegant challenge, could not draw complaint from even the
most strict of the knights - after all, he was not one of them,
and after all, the footmen listened and applauded, their
backs to the rising wind.
EVERY DEAD SOLAMNIC KNIGHT I'VE SEEN,
Breca shouted, HAD ABOUT A DOZEN OF YOUR
LIZARD BOYS ON HIS DANCE CARD. WE FIND
THEM AROUND THE BODIES, ALL STATUED AND
PRETTY LIKE A DAMN ROCK GARDEN.
The footmen laughed, but most of the knights sat uneasily
atop their uneasy horses, who pawed and snorted as though
they had crossed into a country of leopards. Sturm and Lord
Alfred smiled. But Sturm had traveled with outlandish folk
- he had, after all, served with dwarves
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