as t year  ttles of t years. e are fig not far from noo t battle of our war.”

    quot;And?quot; Baerds eyes ill on t, on tony ruin of the hills.

    quot;And all t just ando. And people will die. Of hunger or of plague.”

    quot;All over t;  look aion t .  was sickening.

    quot;take, ttle for a small peninsula. All over t is said t ours is not ttered by time and tars.”

    quot;Carlozzi taughis?”

    quot;Carlozzi taugand eacly, our oroubles  perhaps in dream.”

    Baerd sill looking out at t. quot;t is too remote for me. too difficult. I am a one and a sometime merc and I o fig my ion, over many years. I live in a peninsula overrun by enemies from overseas. t is the level of evil I can grasp.”

    urned aern  Donar. And despite t. tood on traight and his head held high, a man in his prime.

    A o t greatly cer, till e trangeness of t. her eyes, he saw, were a very deep blue.

    quot;ere your eyes t same color an ; he asked.

    S;It  knohis year.

    It ctle for me every time.  color are they now?”

    quot;Blue. Extremely blue.”

    quot;ell t extremely blue, but blue.quot; ;Sell you ; ty, a lig his lips.

    quot;tell me.”

    quot;You look like a boy,quot; stle laug;A fourteen-or fifteen-year-old boy, beardless noo cut if we  half a chance.”

    Baerd felt  t in . It actually seemed to stop for an instant before beginning again, laboriously, to beat. urned s his hands.

    t. Smoot in tregea five years ago  ther