Flight of Vengeance by P. M. Griffin & Andre Norton & Mary H. Schaub

Author:P. M. Griffin & Andre Norton & Mary H. Schaub [Griffin, P. M. & Norton, Andre & Schaub, Mary H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-08-04T21:00:00+00:00

Ouen's chamber was little larger and scarcely more richly appointed than those to which the two Falconers had been shown, but it was both home and private office to the aged scholar, and Aden, Lormt's healer and an avid seeker of knowledge herself, knew she would find both him and Duratan waiting there for her report when she finally left her patient.

The gray eyes fixed anxiously on her. “That poor young woman, how does she fare?”

“She rests and is beyond discomfort. It is too early to say more as yet, but her injuries are severe. Pyra is with her now, as someone must be until the crisis is over, for good or ill.” She shook her head in mixed admiration and amazement. “That ride was hard on her, but those Bird Warriors did well in getting her here as quickly as they did.—I can hardly credit their like with rendering such service.”

“Do not be surprised,” Duratan told her. “I fought beside Falconers when I was with the Borderers. They do not often bind their swords to a woman, right enough, but once their oath is given, they will fulfill it in every respect, spirit and letter, however unpleasant they might find their duties. During the flight from Karsten, matron and maid and maid child were numbered amongst the refugees, and never did I witness a breach in courtesy or in the burden laid upon the able when they assume responsibility for those less strong and less skilled.

“Even beyond sworn duty, most of them seem bound by compassion as well. Had they discovered that lady injured upon the trail, they would almost certainly have done what they could for her, though they probably would not have ridden such a race for her sake.”

“They have given her at least the chance for life,” the woman said, “but we now have to deal with them, or with their leader at any rate. How do we handle him?”

“Why, as we have done, by showing him such hospitality as we can and he is able to accept,” Ouen answered in surprise. “That and by continuing to permit him to study our records as soon as he is rested and free to do so, of course.”

“Ouen! Teacher, you know full well what I mean! It is my trove that he will be using next. Pyra is of their race, and she is also studying those same materials.”

“She will have to share them. Both are not likely to want the same record at the same time.”

“That is not what I am saying,” she snapped in exasperation. “This is not like you, Ouen.”

“Nor is it like you,” he responded pointedly.

“The fear I saw in Pyra when she learned of the company we have here is unlike her, too!” She caught her temper before it escaped her. “She does not want to be dragged back to her village again before she has both the heal-knowledge and the knowledge of her people which she came to get, or to be taken to some other settlement entirely.

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