TO TAME A HAWK
"If all you can bring is gloom and doom, then get thee gone!"
Pride and indignation stiffened the healer's back. "Milord-"
"Nay! I'll have none of it! We'll not be killing her! She won't be dying!"
"Perhaps the Rom might know of some cure," Lydia suggested softly.
The healer sniffed disdainfully. "I assure you, milady, the Rom know nothing of the sort. If I tell you there is no cure, you may rest assured that none could heal her. That vagrant band of cutthroats, cheats, and lightfingers cer-mainly couldn't" The old healer broke off abruptly at the Hawk's dark look.