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THIS ONE IS NOT ONLY AT SEA BUT CAPSIZED, he
said. FOR THEY ALL ARE AT SEA, CROWN, SWORD, OR
ROSE, AND THIS ONE AT HIS BEST HAD NOT
ENOUGH SENSE TO POUR PISS FROM A BOOT IF THE
DIRECTIONS WAS ON THE HEEL. AND THIS, he said,
pausing to light his pipe, the sword still upright beneath his
elbow, point to the ground, THIS IS THE ONE THEY WILL
SURELY PICK TO LEAD US.
And so in the early days of the siege, before Lord
Derek unraveled completely and rode off into death and the
horrible oblivion of legends, we spent our time watching the
battlements and the dwindling food, looking for smoke on
the horizon and listening to the sound of the horn by night
and the rumor by day that somewhere, forgotten within the
bowels of the fortress, lay something the kender had
stumbled upon in his curious wanderings, something that
could - if time and place and desperation were to meet -
alter the course of the siege.
It is tiring to remember this all, Bayard, for already I grow
unaccustomed to the old habit of seeing, and though it
would seem that the memory of vision would be that much
more strongly burned into the thoughts of the newly blind,
when you lose the habits of seeing you often lose the
memories of sight, for the motions of the eyes and the mind
grow rusty and with them the thoughts established before
through those motions
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