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that the Yilanè had no knowledge of fire. They would learn of it when we brought the torch to their city.

And this is what we did. Burnt their city of Alpèasak and sent the few survivors fleeing back to their own
world and their own cities across the sea. This was good for one of those who lived was Enge who had
been my teacher and my friend. She did not believe in killing as all the others did, and led her small band
called the Daughters of Life, believers in the sanctity of life. Would that they had been the only survivors.

But Vaintè lived as well. This creature of hatred survived the destruction of her city, fled on the uruketo,
the great living vessel the Yilanè used, sailed out to sea.

This is what has happened in the past. Now I stand on the shore with the ashes of the city blowing about
me and try to think of what will happen now, what must be done in the years to come.




CHAPTER ONE

Tharman i ermani lasfa katiskapri ap naudinz modia—em bleit hepellin er atta, so faldar elka ensi
hammar.
Marbak proverb

The tharms in the stars may gaze down on a hunter with pleasure—but that is a cold appreciation that
cannot light a fire.




The storm was ending, blowing out to sea. Sheets of rain swept over the distant uruketo hiding it from

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sight. It appeared again suddenly as the rain moved past it, farther away now, a dark shape against the
whitefoamed waves. Low evening sun pierced the broken clouds and washed the uruketo with russet
light, picking out the high outline of the fin. Then it was gone, invisible now in the growing darkness.
Herilak stood in the surf and shook his spear after it, shouting aloud with bitterness.

"They should have died too, all of them, none should escape."

"The killing has stopped," Kerrick said wearily. "It is over, done, finished. We have won. We have slain
the murgu, burned their city." He pointed to the smoking trees behind them. "You have had your
vengeance. For every one of your sammad that they killed you have burned a hault of murgu. You have
done that. For every hunter, woman, child dead, you have killed murgu to the count of a man. That is
enough. Now we must forget dying and think about living."

"You talked with one of them, let it escape. My spear hand trembled—that was not a good thing for you
to do."

Kerrick was aware of the other's anger and his own rose to meet it—but he kept it under control. They