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fairytale maps."
"If Da hears you say that, he'll pound your head. Anyway, who's to say
the map's not real? it's most accurately drawn."
"Aye, well, there's something odd going on," Halli glowered. "For his is
not the only map I've seen."
Now it was Katla's turn to frown. "Showing the oceanway to
Sanctuary?"
"Keep your voice down. Aye. I caught a glimpse of a map that Hopli
Garson was showing to Fenil Soronson at the Allfair."
Katla considered this in silence for a moment. "Then they'll be planning
an expedition, too?"
Halli nodded. "No doubt. Fenil is just as mad as Da for tales of treasure
and lost islands and the like."
"But we must get there first!" she cried, her face lit with fervor. "Can we
not just take the Fulmar's Gift and set out straight away? It'll be months if
we have to wait for a new ship to be built, and that's even if Morten
Danson agrees to it, which he's hardly likely to do, even if you abduct him
? especially if you abduct him!"
"Even Fenil is not such a fool. The sea freezes as far south as Whale
Holm from Spirits' Day to gone Firstsun: and beyond that they say the ice
goes on to the top of the world. He'll need an icebreaker just as we do."
"But he'll already have gone to Morten Danson? "
 "Tarn says the shipyard's taken in six months' production of iron ore
from the Eastern Isles."
"That's more than's needed for a single icebreaker. If he binds that
much iron to his ship, the only course it'll be taking is straight down to the
Great Howe!"
"I think the king's shipmaker has plenty of orders on his hands. I
suspect he may have turned down Da's commission because of the rumors
as to how the last King's shipmaker perished."
He stated it as flatly as if it had been a goat Fent had skewered at the
Allfair, rather than a man, and his sweetheart's father to boot, Katla noted
with surprise. Older and harder his face looked, too; more than ever like
Aran's. Halli was a man to be reckoned with, she realized with surprise;
not a boy any more at all. Between the actions of their father and brother,
he'd lost every dream he'd ever cherished for himself? his own ship, the
wherewithal to make a match with the girl he loved and the price of the
farm on which they'd raise their stock and their family.
"Jenna will come round in the end," she said softly. "She's really very
fond of you."
Halli's head jerked as if she had hit him. "You know?" he asked
incredulously.
"Fent told me. On the voyage back."
"But, instead of telling me, you thought you'd let me find out for
myself," he said bitterly. "Why would she ever ally herself to the clan who
killed her father?"
"She doesn't know for sure. No one does."
"And that makes it right, does it? I say Fent should be a man and
declare the killing and offer blood price to the Fairwater clan and take the
years of exile that he's due for the manslaughter."