t to do?”

    Marius said nothough.

    quot;; ;o killing you for saying t?quot; Erlein paled but did not draw back. Nor did his own eyes flinch away.

    quot;I did not ask to be born into time, crying to set it rig; Alessan said, ig;I  c; Bitterness cracked t.

    And en back. quot;I am trying to act for t just for tigana and  name. I raitor and a fool for doing so. My mot t from o able for blood and deatruction of igana   to your judgment, Erlein di Senzio! I do not need you to tell me  risk in to do ell you, noto die a slave you migo figh me, Senzian.

    it you are going to figh me for freedom!”

    . Devin felt rembling, as if a titanic torm ains and gone.

    quot; ; Marius of Quileia asked.

    Alessan fougo collect o consider tter. quot;Because ;  lengt;Because it is true t  danger by ts, and by my own. And because I have need of him.”

    Marius s;It is bad to have need of a man.”

    quot;I know, Bear.”

    quot;o you, even years later, and ask you for somet  let you refuse.”

    quot;I kno; said Alessan. t eacting motionless on t.

    Devin turned aruder on t excillness of t pass belos of t ness and, looking up to t t of te clouds ed apart, revealing t snoo be a place of more beauty and more pain than he could ever have

    imagined it to be.

    ing for tle, alone on hills.

    of him.

    quot;You,quot; said Baerd, quot;are even  te everything you say.”

    quot;Not er all, your only reason for refusing to co