rro than Devin could have imagined.

    quot;e all envied and admired your fatell you,quot; Alessan added. quot;t an Avalle man  to your naming day. I dont remember  was.”

    quot;You admired my fat; Devin said, stunned.

    Alessan  and ;Do not judge  er Brandin smasion and ting their souls.

    Your motigana gone.  and survived bottles by t; Above triana made a small sound.

    quot;I never kne; Devin protested. quot;old us any of t.quot; there was a new ache inside him. So many avenues.

    quot;Fe; Baerd said.

    quot;Neits did,quot; said Catriana a;took us as far ao a fisibar do from Ardin, and never spoke a his.”

    quot;to s; Alessan said gently. ill touc ;A great many of ts  t  a life unmarred by tigma t bore do still bear doigana. Or Loe as  name it now.”

    quot;t; said Devin stubbornly.  ced, deprived, betrayed.

    Alessan s;Devin, t judge yet: t tune by c to burden you or your brotage, but  a stamp upon you—a tune, y— and  you out into t akably, to anyone from tigana, but to no one else. I do not t er a ring t marked o anyone born where she was born.”

    Devin glanced back. Catriana  o see. It  ed to t, and  a strange, the sea. he swallowed.

    quot;ill you tell me of ; urning back to Alessan. quot;Of my father?”

    Of stolid, dour Garin, grim farmer in a  grey land.  noigana and errible battles by a river and ure—very deliberately sent out into tive c o onight.

    ly realized, almost certainly lied o

    t was