Alred asks for advice about his duty
“Is it true?” Alred grinned as Egelric came to sit beside him before the fire.
“Let me guess… It’s true! Now what are we talking about?”
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Matilda meddles again
Alred found his wife dreaming before the fire in the hall.
“What’s this? My Matilda idle?” he laughed.
Egelric tells Iylaine's secret
Alred came merrily singing down the road to where Egelric waited at the crossroads. He could see his squire’s shoulders were hunched in irritation at his arrival. Or perhaps simply with cold.
“You don’t look happy to see me!” he laughed.
Matilda has another reason
“What are you doing, dear?” Matilda asked her husband as she came into the bedroom.
He stood leaning over the cradle against the wall. “We are admiring one another.”
Vash says goodbye
Iylaine nearly sank down onto the snow when Vash helped her down from her pony.
“You were half-asleep in the saddle, weren’t you?” he laughed. “I wondered why you were so quiet all the way. I thought perhaps you were angry at me,” he teased.
Bertie has a talk with Malcolm
Bertie and his Da and Osric dismounted in the court of the new castle and walked up to the keep. Torches were lit everywhere, making it seem as if work was meant to continue at the site throughout the night. The only thing lacking was the workmen themselves, for every man that could be mounted had been sent out to find Iylaine.
“Bertie!” Malcolm came running out of the shadow of the keep.
Iylaine has a few questions
“Tired yet?” Vash asked after he and Iylaine had eaten their rabbit and were sitting quietly before the fire.
“Aye, but you said you would talk to me after we ate,” she said, perking up.
Bertie blows the horn
“Well, I don’t know but I guess maybe we should let the dogs have a rest,” Bertie’s Da said to Osric. “Their noses do get tired after a while.”
“That’s so,” Osric nodded.
Iylaine learns what she can do
“It’s dark in here,” Iylaine said uneasily. The cave was not deep, and enough moonlight came in to allow her to see—barely—once her eyes had adjusted. Still, it was far darker than outside.
“Don’t like the dark, do you? You’ll feel better once we have a fire. May I leave you here while I go get wood and a rabbit? I assure you, it’s safe here. I sleep here quite often.”
Iylaine learns the stranger’s name, and about her own
Iylaine and the elf led their ponies deep into the trees. The elf’s horse stepped easily over the rocks and fallen branches and tufts of ferns, and ducked calmly under the low boughs, but her own stumbled and balked, angry at being dragged into the dense stand of pines where even the moonlight could not penetrate.
“You take mine and I shall take yours,” the elf suggested after a while. Once he had his hand on the bridle, her pony calmed immediately. “He’s a stubborn boy,” he said to her. “You let him have his head too often, which does surprise me a little on your part. What’s his name?”
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