just t;hem again! e are undone!”

    Otook up t cry along t t spaces of  Elena  he would.

    Just as  aleen years, ty; t, Donar o set, green and full, just  seemed as if t o force t dark figure o stand  as  the enemy ranks.

    And it s, ing,  o tterly contested places of battle, t fields, and claim t and disease and desolation spread wh.

    ood no of ted  of t rising and flo smoke and darkness sretc to a sudden s of coldness come into , a terrible, numbing co tremble. S  seemed t t all, to o her.

    Across tream tions of , saw

    retcotlefield. Elena ation in t of to come at t, o , t tly   year, and t, and t aco come, even as s to find a o ready ed body to face another charge.

    Mattio ; sence, blindly fig figure on t;Not time! Not! Let t retreat again!”

    side, anotraigo move to t  to t  t a sob escape .

    And noruggled gamely up from   arm dangling at anding ting ting of pride t o pain, Elena sa t alkers  retreating. None of to o try. And some of to die now shem would die.

    t ;No,quot; he said.

    quot;t fall back. e oo many tonig  spring. I o play for time, to  .

    Elena felt o cry, from exion as mucrying to let Donar see anding, , ing to ease triump, ly realized t Baerd  ohe miracle begin.

    , none at all. From t t- it was. In an odd way he shadow-figure came.

    It  kno, but teps t nigaken o tc seemed to ime ago.

    see t t didnt matter, it really didnt.  t.

    It oget o t someone  knoly ure of its po