McAuley, Paul J. -The Book of Confluence 01 - Child of the River by McAuley Paul J

Author:McAuley, Paul J.
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2006-12-10T20:55:05+00:00

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Derev's eyes shone a handspan from his. She said, "I'd never heard of it before you told me your story. But there are many strange things on the river, Yama. It is always changing."

Yet always the same, " Yama said, remembering Caphis's tattoo, the snake swallowing its own tail. He added, "You thought that the anchorite we saved from Lud and Lob was one of my, bloodline."

"Perhaps he was the first generation, born just after the ship of the Ancients of Days arrived."

"There may be hundreds of my bloodline by now, Derev. Thousands!"

"That's what I think. I told Beatrice and Osric about the anchorite, but they didn't seem to be very interested. Perhaps I was mistaken about him being of your bloodline, but I do not think I was. He gave you a coin. You should take it with you."

"So he did. I had forgotten it."

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TRI PALMERS.

YAMA DIS(OVIRID TH knife at the bottom of his satchel on the first evening of his journey to Ys in the company of Prefect Corin. Yama had given the knife to Sergeant Rhodean that morning, because Prefect Corin had said that it was not the kind of thing an apprentice 'should own. The Prefect had been quite specific about what Yama could and could not carry; before they had set off he had looked through Yama's satchel and had removed the knife and the carefully folded map of Ys and the horn-handled pocket-knife which had once belonged to Telmon. Yama had been able to take little with him but a change of clothes and the money given to him by the Aedile. He had the copy of the Puranas and the anchorite's coin, which he wore around his neck, inside his shirt, but because they had been given to him so recently they did not yet seem like proper possessions.

Sergeant Rhodean must have slipped the knife back into the satchel when Yama had been making his farewells. It was sheathed in brown and white goatskin and tucked beneath Yama's spare shirt and trousers. Yama was pleased to see it, even though it still made him uneasy. He knew that all heroes carried weapons with special attributes, and he was determined to be a hero. He was still very young.

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