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.To humans, black bears on the other hand seemedbenign; tomttu had more cause to fear them.And there was information on dwarves. If they have no grudge against you, Maikel said, and if you re not trespassin , they re no danger to you at all.But if you wrong them, knowingly or not, they re implacable.Implacable!They do be friendly to us though, because we re small, you see,and because we re not given to human treacheries. Dwarves consider that they aren t, either.But I must tell you thattheir greed sometimes gets the better of them.Then they can cheat and lielike a human.Well, not like the worst humans, but badly enough.Still, I dtrust a dwarf before a man.Not before every man not beforeyourself but judgin the species broadly.They deal fairly with usthough, the dwarves.Close but fairly.It s dealin with men and ylver that brings out the worstin them. Indeed, dwarves and geography were the subjects that most interestedMacurdy.For if the Sisterhood had moved to the Kingdom in SilverMountain, it seemed to him he d have to go there.Then one day, Maikel didn t show up. The nights are becoming cold, Blue Wing explained, and he woke up this morning with the decisionto continue westward to his people.He asked me to give you his best wishes.As for me the scavenging is poor around here.The people in Miskmehr keepmore sheep, and sheep are rather given to dying without apparentcause. Then the great bird and Macurdy wished each other well, and Blue Wing flew offnorthward.12: PursuedWith the solstice near at hand, the sun rose early.From an outlook, Variacould see its luminosity through thinning clouds, but it failed to warmher.The mare she d stolen plodded stolidly on, but more and moreslowly.When it paused to browse on the young leaves of maple, Varia wasscarcely aware of it, she was so sunken in hypothermia from thecold, night-long rain.At length the mare stopped, to stand quietly on a stretch of bare bedrockalmost free of shade.The sun had burned the clouds off, and shone on her wetflanks.Gradually its warmth, trapped by blackened oilcloth, seepedthrough Varia s torpor, and she slid from the saddle, hobbling to an outcropto lie in the sun.She awoke cold on one side from the rock, and warmed on the other by sunshine.Looking around slowly, she saw the mare standing broadside to the warm rays,hide steaming.Wincing, Varia got to her feet, her legs and buttocks solidpain at the effort, sore not from the saddle, but from occasionaluphill hiking to rest the horse.And you re the girl who was ready to walk to Ferny Cove, Varia thought.Barely able to hobble, she went to the horse, aware also now of the blistersshe d gotten, hiking in wet, ill-fitting boots.From a saddlebag shetook a broken piece of loaf and the slab of cheese, sat down inthe sun on a windfall and began to gnaw.Just the act seemed to warm her.The mare watched her eat reproachfully she thought. You and I dependPage 43 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlon each other now, she told it. Be patient and we ll find yousome grass pretty soon. For a quarter hour Varia sat gnawing, and soaking up sun, her thoughts slow,her eyes on the mare.You need a name, she decided.You re my best friend now; I can t just call you Horse.She gave it a minute s thought, then nodded, her chuckle sounding a bitlike the Varia of WashingtonCounty. Maude, she said aloud. I name you Maude. And chuckled again.Maude had been the name of her father-in-law s favorite mare, namedin turn for the queen of some place in Europe.She gnawed and sunned till the mare got restless, then wincing with pain,pulled herself into the saddle and rode slowly on.The ridge dwindled, andthey slanted down its north flank to a soggy glade, the grassy headwaters of abrook.There Varia took the bit from Maude s mouth, to let the creaturegraze more easily.Then hobbled to a sun-heated boulder, large as aroadster, crawled onto it and quickly fell asleep.It was near noon before she awoke and looked around.Something had wakenedher, apparently not a predator, for Maude still grazed placidly.Sitting up, Varia realized what it was: Miles away, someone had found hertrail, some tracker, and she d sensed it.Tomm, it seemed to her.Such psychic incidents were well known to Sisters.She could onlywish they were regular, something she could rely on to keep her informed.Then it struck her that in the cold and rain, the night before, and later inher torpor, she d forgotten all about casting a net of confusion.She d remembered at the stable where she d stolen Maude, butafterward had gone into a stupor from rain, cold, and finally fatigue.She didn t panic though, or slip into despair
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