The Sword of Bedwyr by Salvatore R. A
Author:Salvatore, R. A. [Salvatore, R. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure
ISBN: 9780006483434
Amazon: 0006483437
Goodreads: 400688
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Published: 1994-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
âYou are so very good at running from problems,â Oliver remarked to Luthien when the two were far from Caer MacDonaldâs wall.
Luthien eyed his diminutive companion curiously, not understanding the comment. âLikely, weâre running into trouble,â he replied. âNot away from it.â
âA fight with cyclopians is never trouble,â Oliver explained. âNot the kind that you fear, at least.â
Luthien eyed him suspiciously, guessing what was to come.
âBut you have done so very well in avoiding the other kind, the more subtle and painful kind,â Oliver explained. âFirst you send Katerin running off to Port Charleyââ
âShe volunteered,â Luthien protested. âShe demanded to go!â
âAnd now, you have arranged to be away for perhaps two weeks,â the halfling continued without hesitation, ignoring Luthienâs protests.
Those protests did not continue, for Luthien realized that he was guilty as charged.
âAh, yes,â Oliver chided. âQuite the hero with the sword, but in love, alas.â
Luthien started to ask what the halfling might be gibbering about and deflect Oliverâs intrusions, but he was wise enough to know that it was already too late for that. âHow dare you?â the young Bedwyr asked sharply, and Oliver recognized that he had opened a wound. âWhat do you know of it?â Luthien demanded. âWhat do you know of anything?â
âI am so skilled and practiced in the ways of amour,â the halfling replied coolly.
Luthien eyed his three-foot-tall companion, the young Bedwyrâs expression clearly relating his doubts.
Oliver snorted indignantly. âFoolish boy,â he said, snapping his fingers in the air. âIn Gascony, it is said, a merchant is only as good as his purse, a warrior is only as good as his weapon, and a lover is only as good asââ
âOliver!â Luthien interrupted, blushing fiercely.
âHis heart,â the halfling finished, looking curiously at his shocked companion. âOh, you have become such a gutter-crawler!â Oliver scolded.
âI just thought . . .â Luthien stammered, but he stopped and waved his hand hopelessly. With a shake of his head, he kicked Riverdancer into a faster canter, and the horse leaped ahead of Threadbare.
Oliver persisted and moved his pony to match the Morgan highlanderâs speed. âYour heart is not known to you, my friend,â he said as he came up alongside Luthien. âSo you run, but yet, you cannot!â
âOliver the poet,â Luthien said dryly.
âI have been called worse.â
Luthien let it go at that, and so did Oliver, but though the conversation ended, Luthienâs private thoughts on the matter most certainly did not. Truly the young man was torn, full of passion and full of guilt, loving Katerin and Siobhan, but in different ways. He did not regret his affair with the half-elfâhow could he ever look upon those beautiful moments with sadness?âand yet, never had he wanted to hurt Katerin. Not in any way, not at any time. He had been swept up in the moment, the excitement of the road, of the city and the budding rebellion. Bedwydrin, and Katerin, too, had seemed a million miles and a million years removed.
But then she had come back to him, a wonderful friend of another time, his first loveâand, he had come to realize, his only love.
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