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~Nyla~ "They're saying it's you."Lily got to the door before Jenna could shut it, and she came in with her hair half undone and her feet bare and her voice already going."Lily.""They're saying it in the mill row and they're saying it at the wash house and Janet's mother said it to my *face* an hour ago." She was shaking. "That the mark didn't take because of what you are. That the goddess wouldn't let it. That a runt with no wolf can't hold a bond and everybody knew it and the alpha's been made a fool of in front of five hundred people.""Sit down." Jenna pushed the bolt across."I don't want to sit down—""Sit down, Lily, you've no shoes on and it's freezing."Lily sat down.The room was Jenna's, which meant it was small and clean and had one high window, and I had slept in it four nights and still felt like something borrowed."Say the rest." I said."That's the rest.""Lily.

~Oswald~ "You've come alone.""I have.""That's a mistake and I'd like it noted that I told you so." The priestess was at the tower window with her back to me. "Four wolves on that stair and not one of them coming in with you. If I'm what you think I am, Alpha, this is the stupidest hour of your life.""If you're what I think you are, four wolves on a stair would be decoration."She turned round. She looked pleased about that, which I had expected, and old, which I had not.The eastern tower has one room, one window and a fire, and somebody had lit it. Somebody had also brought bread and a jug and a chair, and she had not touched any of it."Sit down." I said."I've been sitting all night.""Then stand."I took the chair myself and put it between me and the door, and sat in it, and let the fire do the talking for a while."Ana of the mill row." I said eventually. "Wren was her sister's name?"

~Nyla~ "You're holding the reins like they owe you money.""I'm holding them the way you showed me.""I showed you six hours ago and you've invented three new ways since." Jenna brought her horse up alongside and reached over without asking, working my fingers loose one at a time. "Loose. Let her find the road. She's done this a great deal more than you have."The mare's head came down the moment I let go, and the whole animal changed under me."Oh.""Yes. Oh." Jenna dropped back.We had been riding since midnight. The western ridge had gone behind us in the dark and by first light we were down in the long country east of it, mile after mile of low scrub and stone walls with nobody in any of it, and I had learned in eight hours that I knew nothing whatsoever about horses and had been extremely confident about them for most of my life.Oswald rode ahead of us and had barely spoken since the yard."He's count

~Nyla~ "Don't drink that."Kerrin had the skin halfway to his mouth and stopped. "It's ours, Jenna. It came off the wall.""I know where it came from. Don't drink it here." She was already off her horse, walking a wide circle round the hollow we'd come down into. "Not in this. Get back up the slope and drink it there.""That's twenty paces.""Then it's twenty paces." Jenna's voice had gone flat. "Look at your horse."We all looked at his horse.It was standing perfectly still with its head up and its ears forward and it had not moved a muscle since we came down into that ground, and neither had any of the others, and none of them had touched the grass.We went back up the slope. Every one of us, without arguing about it, and Kerrin drank his water at the top and did not say anything for an hour afterward.* * *The old ground did not look like anything.That was the part I could not get past.

~Oswald~ "Everything's only a knot, if you sit with it long enough.""Get behind me.""Alpha—""Behind me, Jenna. Now."She came, which surprised me, and it was the only thing that went the way I wanted it in the next four minutes.Artemis stayed sitting. That was the worst of it. He sat against that fallen wall with the rope in a loose coil in his lap and looked up at five armed wolves with the pleasant, unhurried patience of a man waiting for a cart."You've all gone very serious." He said."Beta." I kept my voice level. "Put your hands back in the rope.""Now why would I do that?""Because you asked me to. An hour ago, on that step, in front of your daughter.""Did I?" He considered it. "That doesn't sound like me. I've been cold and I've been tired and I daresay I said a great many things. You'll not hold a man to what he says with two days of stone in his back.""Vann. Kerrin