. While the light faded in the huthe looked at hersimply looked as if
he were expecting her to wake and smile at him. Rhegor came insidecarrying a
lantern.
I've tended the horse.
My thanks.
Slowlya broken phrase at a timeNevyn told him the talewhile Rhegor listened with
an occasional nod.
The poor lass Rhegor said at last. She had more honor than either you or her
brother.
She did. Would it be a wrong thing for me to kill myself on her grave?
It would. I forbid it.
Nevyn nodded vaguely and wondered why he felt so calm. He was dimly aware of his
master leaning over him.
Ladshe's dead. You've got to go on from here. All we can do for Gwennie is pray
that she has better afterwards.
Where?
Nevyn spat out the words. "In the shadowy Otherlands? How can there
even be godsif they'd let her die and not kill a wretch like me?"
Hereladyou're mad from your griefand trulyI'm afraid you might stay that way if
you keep brooding. The gods have nothing to do with thiseither way. That's true
enough.
Rhegor put a gentle hand on Nevyn's arm. "Comenowlet's sit at the table.
Let poor little Gwennie lie there."
Nevyn's habit of obedience saved him. He let Rhegor haul him up and lead him to a
tablesat down when the master told him toand took a tankard of aleas welljust
because the master had handed him one.
Now drink some of it right off. There. That's betterlad. You think she's gone forever
don't you? Cut off from lifeforever and everand her a lass who loved life so much.
And what else would I think?
I'll tell you the truth to think instead. There's a great secret to the dweomerone that
you can never tell any man unless he asks you point-blank. They never do asktruly
unless they're marked for the dweomer themselves. But the secret is thisthat
everyoneman and woman bothlives not oncebut many timesover and overback
and forth between this world and the other. What looks like a death hereladis but
birth to another world. She's gonetrulybut
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