The Telling by Guin Ursula K. Le

Author:Guin, Ursula K. Le [Guin, Ursula K. Le]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 9780151005673
Google: CghbAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: 0151005672
Goodreads: 92603
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2000-09-11T07:00:00+00:00

SIX

SHE WENT TO TALK to Odiedin Manma. Despite his enigmatic telling, despite the uncanny event (which she was now quite sure she had merely imagined) in his class, she had found him the most worldly and politically knowledgeable of the maz she knew, and she badly wanted some practical counsel. She waited till after his class and then begged him for advice.

“Does Maz Elyed want me to go to this place, this umyazu, because she thinks if I go there, my presence will help keep it safe? I think she might be wrong. I think the blue-and-tans are tracking me all the time. It’s a secret place, a hidden place, isn’t it? If I went, they could just follow me. They may have all kinds of tracking devices.”

Odiedin held up his hand, mild but unsmiling. “I don’t think they’ll track you, yoz. They have orders from Dovza to let you be. Not to follow and observe you.”

“You know that?”

He nodded.

She believed him. She remembered the invisible web she had sensed when she first lived here. Odiedin was one of the spiders.

“Anyhow, the way to Silong isn’t an easy track to follow. And you could leave very quietly.” He chewed his lip a little. A hint of warmth, a pleasurable look, had come into his dark, severe face. “If Maz Elyed suggested that you go there, and if you want to go there,” he said, “I’d show you the way.”

“You would?”

“I was at the Lap of Silong once. I was twelve. My parents were maz. It was a bad time then. When the books were burned. A lot of police. A lot of loss, destruction. Arrests. Fear. So we left Okzat, went up into the hills, to the hill towns. And then, in the summer, all the way round Zubuam, to the lap of the Mother. I’d like very much to go that way again before I die, yoz.”

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