ing tionally alert and alive norianas fingers and

    ts as they passed.

    S later.

    ;s wrong?”

    S;Id as soon it  proclaimed t t; sraight ahead.

    Devin lifted ;  about us being upstairs? I just gave tion. t even boto talk about it. t of time.”

    quot;Not to me,quot; said Catriana quietly.

    quot;I didnt mean it t ; Devin protested, taken aback. But unfortunately tairs by t e unexpected sense of estrangement t o let er the room before him.

    More ttle confused, ook o go back out into tyard.

    ing role in t t played out upstairs. Back, and t seemed to be  focusing like a beam of sunligail ting and revealing ime around.

    And so it  by time it o step foro end and croes, seeing tantly, noting omasso struck a pose of rapt atten- tiveness, Devin o give t;Lament for Adaonquot; an undivided soul, for  quite decided in w o do.

    ly in tory of t o t from mountain glen to crag to chasm brink.

    and ces to rise above t courtyard and beyond it, out among treets and squares of ibar.

    ended to pass beyond t nigrail o a o gating t Catriana dAstibar  done t s of murder to prevent . rove to turn taste of t knoo grief for Adaon, to let it guide and infuse t;Lament.”

    Better for boture in  and ted softness in  a certain kind of pride at Devins age is perronger t any otal man, and o sing, yard among t of Astibar, t o be t ter, not she.

    So Devin sang t t dying on tregean mountain slope all o give it, making o seek t of