TO TAME A HAWK
Suddenly, his old friend rose and whirled about to watch the the stream of gypsies trailing down to the valley.
"What's going on, Rushka?" Hawk asked, eying the odd procession. It looked like some kind of Rom ritual, but if it was, it was one Hawk had never seen.
"Esmerelda is dead. She goes to the sea."
Hawk surged to his feet. "The sea! That's the death for a bruhdskar. For one who has betrayed her own!"
"And so she did."
"But she was your daughter, Rushka. How?"
The old man's shoulders rocked forward, and Hawk could see his pain in every line of his body. "She tried three times to kill your lady," he said finally.