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."I'm not sure what good that does," she said."But I thought." "It's worth sharing." But who knows about Faerie? What would that mean? Were all these rumors ofmagical outpourings from Faerie just the equivalent of a vicious kindergarten class out on recess? "I don'tknow if it does any good, mind," I said with a smile, "but it's worth sharing."There were two obvious places to find out Pandathaway and Ehvenor.Ehvenor, because Ehvenorwas the only Eren-region outpost of Faerie.Pandathaway, because if there was any movement out fromFaerie, no matter how subtle, the Wizards Guild would surely be looking into it, sooner or later.I didn't like either choice, particularly Pandathaway.There was still a price on my head inPandathaway with a bonus if it was delivered in small slices.That left Ehvenor.I never much liked Ehvenor.It's an outpost of Faerie, and the rules of the Eren regiondon't entirely hold there.It's not too bad out near the edge of the city I've been there, and come outwith nothing worse than a nervous tic that went away after a while.But they say that the further in you go,the more the fluctuating, positional rules of Faerie apply, and the less the solid ones of the rest of theuniverse do.There was a solution that worked for a lot of problems: let somebody else handle it.That looked like the best one to me.I'm not bad at what I do, but I'm not a magician, I don't like magic,and I've found it far healthier to stay out of the way of magic, no matter what the source."It scares you, doesn't it?"I don't mind my wife thinking I'm not an idiot."Youbet it does," I said."Anyone can get a reputation forbeing invincible.It's easy: to start, you go into harm's way and survive.Repeat, and you've got areputation; do it a few more times, and you're a legend.But reputation doesn't make you invulnerable thenext time.It doesn't matter how good you are, either; there's always a chance you're going to getunlucky.If you keep rolling the dice, eventually you're going to roll snake eyes too many times in a row.""Like Karl did."I nodded."Like Karl did, like Jason Parker did, like Chak did, like.like we all will, eventually.Maybe."We had been ignoring Nora too long; she came out from her hiding place and started chewing on myshoe."This is how the whole problem started, you know," I said, playfully very gently kicking at her.Sheresponded by seizing the toe of my shoe between her teeth and shaking it back and forth, like a dog witha rat."Oh?""Slavery." I reached forward and took the pup by the scruff of the neck and held her firmly for amoment."When you fight with another tribe doesn't matter who starts it and you win, what do you dowith the survivors? Kill them to the last man, the way Chak's people would? Let them go, nursing agrudge ""Which they may have a right to." "Sure.But it doesn't matter." I shrugged."Right or wrong, if you just let them go, you're buying trouble.So, do you kill them do you kill them all? Or do you take them in?"And if you do, can you take them in as citizens or tribesmen, or whatever you want to call them? Ofcourse not even assuming you're willing to play that game, it takes two.Slavery wasn't the only choice, of course; there were all sorts of ways short of that colonization springsto mind.Karl had coopted Holtun, after Bieme had won the war.The difference was a matter ofpermanence and scale; he had taken the Holts in with the promise of earning co-equal status in theEmpire, eventually."So, you're saying that the slavers who burned my village and took me when I was just a girl were just abunch of nice people.Misunderstood.Did I ever tell you about the time that six of them, thatsix ofthem ""Shh." I started to reach for her, but stopped myself."Comeon , Kirah." I shook my head."Not talkingabout what it became; I'm talking about how it started." I patted the pup."Maybe out of the best ofintentions, eh?" Maybe, in the long run, it would have been kinder to let Tennetty simply put them out oftheir misery.That wasn't enough for Kirah.Her lips pursed into a thin line, and then she turned away [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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."I'm not sure what good that does," she said."But I thought." "It's worth sharing." But who knows about Faerie? What would that mean? Were all these rumors ofmagical outpourings from Faerie just the equivalent of a vicious kindergarten class out on recess? "I don'tknow if it does any good, mind," I said with a smile, "but it's worth sharing."There were two obvious places to find out Pandathaway and Ehvenor.Ehvenor, because Ehvenorwas the only Eren-region outpost of Faerie.Pandathaway, because if there was any movement out fromFaerie, no matter how subtle, the Wizards Guild would surely be looking into it, sooner or later.I didn't like either choice, particularly Pandathaway.There was still a price on my head inPandathaway with a bonus if it was delivered in small slices.That left Ehvenor.I never much liked Ehvenor.It's an outpost of Faerie, and the rules of the Eren regiondon't entirely hold there.It's not too bad out near the edge of the city I've been there, and come outwith nothing worse than a nervous tic that went away after a while.But they say that the further in you go,the more the fluctuating, positional rules of Faerie apply, and the less the solid ones of the rest of theuniverse do.There was a solution that worked for a lot of problems: let somebody else handle it.That looked like the best one to me.I'm not bad at what I do, but I'm not a magician, I don't like magic,and I've found it far healthier to stay out of the way of magic, no matter what the source."It scares you, doesn't it?"I don't mind my wife thinking I'm not an idiot."Youbet it does," I said."Anyone can get a reputation forbeing invincible.It's easy: to start, you go into harm's way and survive.Repeat, and you've got areputation; do it a few more times, and you're a legend.But reputation doesn't make you invulnerable thenext time.It doesn't matter how good you are, either; there's always a chance you're going to getunlucky.If you keep rolling the dice, eventually you're going to roll snake eyes too many times in a row.""Like Karl did."I nodded."Like Karl did, like Jason Parker did, like Chak did, like.like we all will, eventually.Maybe."We had been ignoring Nora too long; she came out from her hiding place and started chewing on myshoe."This is how the whole problem started, you know," I said, playfully very gently kicking at her.Sheresponded by seizing the toe of my shoe between her teeth and shaking it back and forth, like a dog witha rat."Oh?""Slavery." I reached forward and took the pup by the scruff of the neck and held her firmly for amoment."When you fight with another tribe doesn't matter who starts it and you win, what do you dowith the survivors? Kill them to the last man, the way Chak's people would? Let them go, nursing agrudge ""Which they may have a right to." "Sure.But it doesn't matter." I shrugged."Right or wrong, if you just let them go, you're buying trouble.So, do you kill them do you kill them all? Or do you take them in?"And if you do, can you take them in as citizens or tribesmen, or whatever you want to call them? Ofcourse not even assuming you're willing to play that game, it takes two.Slavery wasn't the only choice, of course; there were all sorts of ways short of that colonization springsto mind.Karl had coopted Holtun, after Bieme had won the war.The difference was a matter ofpermanence and scale; he had taken the Holts in with the promise of earning co-equal status in theEmpire, eventually."So, you're saying that the slavers who burned my village and took me when I was just a girl were just abunch of nice people.Misunderstood.Did I ever tell you about the time that six of them, thatsix ofthem ""Shh." I started to reach for her, but stopped myself."Comeon , Kirah." I shook my head."Not talkingabout what it became; I'm talking about how it started." I patted the pup."Maybe out of the best ofintentions, eh?" Maybe, in the long run, it would have been kinder to let Tennetty simply put them out oftheir misery.That wasn't enough for Kirah.Her lips pursed into a thin line, and then she turned away [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]