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.Come yourself if thatseems safer.Or you tell me.""I only know the beginning," Aleneil said slowly."It is Elizabeth who knows the end, having heard it fromthe other.child.who, of course, is a child no longer.""Please, Aleneil." Tears shone in the dark eyes."I must know!""Do you have a Gate?" Aleneil asked."I dare not show you mine or use it.Denoriel would murder me.""Yes!" Rhoslyn said so eagerly that Blanche pulled Elizabeth backward.When she saw the movement,Rhoslyn uttered a single sob."It has only one terminus, only one.At the Elves' Market.That is for myown safety.You can go alone and then return, Aleneil.If anything happens to you, Elizabeth will not go,so I will have lost everything.""My lady, don't go!" Blanche exclaimed.She remembered Rhoslyn with fangs and claws fighting Aleneilon the floor of Elizabeth's bedchamber."Wait until Lord Denno comes.To go you'll have to cover yourcross.That's dangerous.""I know," Elizabeth said and looked doubtfully at Rhoslyn.The Sidhe said nothing, but tears streaked theelegant face.and Elizabeth could see they were real tears visible on the cheeks under the illusion."ButI don't think Denno would let me go because he doesn't understand how sad this lady is.I really want totell her what Da told me.My Denno didn't do anything wrong." She turned her gaze toward Aleneil."Please don't you see?""Is the Gate far?" Aleneil asked."In the garden," Rhoslyn replied."I will bring us back within a few minutes of when we left.If LadyElizabeth walks with both of us, no one will think ill of a short stroll in the garden." "Lady Alana!" Blanche protested."I know you are worried, Blanche," Aleneil said, "but I think Rhoslyn is being honest with us.Still, if weare not back before it is time for Elizabeth's lessons, send the little one to bring Lord Denno and tell himwhere we were supposed to go and with whom.There will be such a harrowing of the Dark lands."Aleneil's eyes were very bright and Rhoslyn shook her head, whispering, "No.No.I mean no harm."Blanche returned to Elizabeth's apartment to make excuses if they were necessary and Elizabeth walkedwith Lady Alana and Mistress Scot out into the formal garden of Hampton Court.At the end of the PrivyGarden, not far from where the stair went down to the river was a small clump of trees.There was nobrush, but the grass was rough among them, not as welcoming to those who strolled as the graveled path.There were a few small groups of ladies on the path, and Elizabeth and her companions had to go andlook down the steps toward the river.After a while their end of the garden was empty, and they hurriedto a bench, which stood in the shelter of the trees.Rhoslyn looked around once to make sure they were the only ones near, and said, "Gate." Aleneilstepped into the black maw that appeared.It was gone and almost instantly Aleneil was standing whereshe had disappeared."Very well," she said."The Gate did, indeed, take me to the Elves' Market and let me open it to returnhere.Still," she turned to Elizabeth, "are you sure you want to do this, my love?""I want Mistress Scot " Elizabeth now knew the Sidhe's name was Rhoslyn, but she always called theSidhe in her world by their mortal-world names " to know that my Denno is not an evil creature and didno harm.I want " she hesitated " I want as much accord among us as there can be."Elizabeth had stood up while she was speaking.She too looked around to be sure that no one waswatching and walked in under the trees.Then she slipped her cross into its spelled cover; Aleneil took agood grip on her and glared at Rhoslyn who had held out her hand.Rhoslyn retracted her hand and said,"Gate."The Gate appeared.Aleneil immediately stepped into it, pulling Elizabeth with her.Dark.Falling.Elizabeth was no longer in the least afraid and was ready to step out into a cul-de-sac barricaded withempty crates the moment she saw light.Rhoslyn was not with them.Aleneil drew in her breath, lookingvery disappointed.To Elizabeth she said, "Shield."Obediently Elizabeth raised her shields, both mental and physical, and in that moment, Rhoslyn appeared.She made no comment on Aleneil's obvious distrust, but her mouth turned down a little at the corners andher voice was not completely steady when she asked if Aleneil wished to walk around to the front andchoose a drinking house or would enter through the back of the one where the Gate terminated.They went around to one of the main aisles of the Elves' Market and a full cross lane away from the placethey had entered before Aleneil saw a place she liked.Elizabeth saw that Rhoslyn was uncomfortableand asked her what was wrong."The landlord and other patrons of this place will not like it that I am here," she said.Elizabeth looked around."No one seems to mind.Why should they?"Rhoslyn looked resigned."Because I am of the Dark Court and they of the Bright."Now Aleneil laughed."How are they supposed to know that if you do or say nothing to tell them? I doubt that many even know that Elizabeth is mortal.""Do they not know?" Rhoslyn asked doubtfully, then sighed."Another lie." She shook her head."Nevermind that.Tell me about my poor little changeling.You claim Denoriel did not kill him?""Of course not! What kind of a monster do you think my brother.your own half-brother.is?""All I know is that my Making, my child, was gone and there was no trace of him.If Denoriel had notsucked out the power that held him together, why could I not feel him?""Because Miralys, the elvensteed, had covered him with his aura," Aleneil said."We are going about thiswrong.You need one whole tale from beginning to end.I do not know how you got into Windsor orconvinced FitzRoy's guardian to give him into your care.""I didn't attempt that," Rhoslyn asserted, head high."I didn't need to.I came dressed as a nun bringing agift from Mary to her half-brother.Norfolk.is a self-centered, self-important man.It did not takemuch of a spell to convince him.It was harder to break the watchfulness of the boy's men-at-arms.""Da told me that part," Elizabeth put in
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