(eng) Michael Scott Rohan - Winter of the World 02 by The Forge in the Forest

Author:The Forge in the Forest [Forest, The Forge in the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"What is her name?" choked Elof.

Taounehtar she is styled, Taoune's deadly consort. But the creature she becomes among men names herself Louhi.

Elof remembered little of his walk back that night. He ate little and slept less, tossing and turning upon the furs of his bed. Could Tapiau have heard of his own quest, and seek to turn him aside from it? Perhaps; but while the Master of Trees might slant a truth, he would not lie so plainly.

Louhi also has taken an apprentice… if she's Louhi's she '11 be nothing for you and I… for what that girl has, Louhi has, be sure of that… no smith welded my chains, and even if you were the greatest among men you could not make them . . . The words of many voices blurred and burned in his mind, and became one, echoing away into distances vast and chill. Nothing . . . you could not . . . If Louhi was as Tapiau said, then what was Kara? What had he dared to love? What had he set out to seek across all the breadth of this vast land, across all the world if need be? But then, as if in answer, he heard the dark timbre of her own words, remembered her heart leap beneath his hand as she spoke. I am of no common sort. . . I will not change. He lay still then, and a bitter calm settled across his thoughts. She would not change? Then no more must he. What he loved, he loved. It was as simple as that. He could only go on as he had done, seek with as single a mind as he had sought to counter the mindsword, as he had sought to reforge Gorthawer…

It came to him then. From his long search through the remnants of the Mastersmith's library a memory surged up, a matter that had seemed of little moment at the time. So might it still, in itself; but if he could turn it about it would surely serve his will. He slept then, but excitement awoke him at first light. He rose and waited agog for Roc or Ils to stir.

"What do I know of what?" she growled sleepily. "Of iron and copper in corrosives? Many things, though I am not my folk's best scholar in such matters; chiefly that they corrode. How much, how fast, what they form…"

"What they create!" hissed Elof excitedly. "That's what I mean! No? But you'll see! Now, we'll need quantities of corrosives, sheet copper and iron as pure as we can make them. And some of that powdery black stone the Mastersmith used for marking parchment…"

"Ought to be plenty in the hills!" yawned Roc. "Comes from schist or the like, doesn't it? Won't lead do as well?"

"No! It's not for making marks that way! Come, bestir yourselves, we dare not waste the day! We've long weeks of work ahead!"

He spoke truly, save that the weeks extended into months. They toiled

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