t ttle of your daytime world.”

    , a rusreaming out of the hills.

    quot;I am alle,quot; o o ;All my life.

    I see out tell you t I am fifteen years old no fourteen or I could not be  ; A t struck ;tell me: is tream  of us, a river below whey are descending now?”

    quot;t; Donar said. quot;Do you  to join battle there?”

    A red, fierce joy rollable.

    quot;I do,quot; ;Otio, where do we claim our weapons?”

    quot;t; Mattio pointed sout to a small nearby field alks of corn  your stream very soon.”

    Baerd did not speak. tios lead. Elena and Donar   field of corn already and Baerd sa to pluck a stalk to be t. It  o take a part of to understand t  ern logic of day, grasped t tall yello onig for their hands.

    epped in among t cornfield, careful of alk for  came free easily, even o  green nig on to fallo in  cautiously, and  already talk iffened like metal forged. It sliced tling sound. ested it alk rue to  uries ago.

    o t. t of t of t a dream, old  a dream.

    Donar io stood beyond, a passionate defiance in his face.

    Men and ern and resolute and unafraid.

    quot;S; Donar said turning to look out upon t;S to the Ember war?”

    quot;For t; t alkers cried, and raised t to the sky.

    Baerd di tigana bar Saevar cried  and not aloud, but  foralk of corn like a long blade in o do battle under t enced place.

    s, there was never any blood.

    Elena understood onige, of any kind of life. o to th.