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And what is more, the light must be fading, night must
be approaching, for the warmth that settles upon the sill of
my window is fading now and I smell smoke and burning
tallow as I face into the room. Some things there are for
which the night should have no ear, and among those are
the ride of Lord Derek and the disasters that followed. So
again in the morning, if my nurse will only remain patient -
patient and undeniably kind - I shall recount the darkest leg
of the journey.
THREE
It was rumor that passed among us once more, rumor
again of movement and of battle, but this time there seemed
more substance to it, for on the battlements and in the
chambers the knights were silent, the only storm arising
from a conference room high in the tower, where Alfred and
Derek and Sturm waged a war of words and of rising
voices, an occasional shout or a fragment of speech caught
when the wind died and the sound descended to the
courtyards and the barracks of the fortress.
We could make nothing of this debate above us, these
loud quarrels like the distant cries of predatory birds, but it
was different from the nights of the winding horn, the
sudden preparations for the false alarms, for now we did
nothing but wait - no preparations, no rumors of what was
taking place beyond SOMETHING IS TAKING PLACE -
and the fortress incredibly silent, as though the horses were
lost in thought and the vermin had quit the rafters and the
middens by instinct, going Huma knows where into the
winter darkness
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