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don't know, but the touch of it burned me so that I pulled away, and the pain and fear
of it woke me from the dream."
He held his hand out as he spoke, showing a darkness on the back and palm like an old


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bruise.
"I've learned not to let them touch me," he said in a low voice.
Ged looked at Alder's mouth. There was a darkening across his lips too.
"Hara, you've been in mortal danger," he said, also softly.
"There is more."
Forcing his voice against silence, Alder went on with his story.
The next night when he slept again he found himself on that dim hill and saw the wall
that dropped down from the hilltop across the slope. He went down towards it, hoping
to find his wife there. "I didn't care if she couldn't cross it, if I couldn't, so long as I
could see her and talk to her," he said. But if she was there he never saw her among all
the others: for as he came closer to the wall he saw a crowd of shadowy people on the
other side, some clear and some dim, some he seemed to know and others he did not
know, and all of them reached out their hands to him as he approached and called him
by his name: "Hara! let us come with you! Hara, set us free!"
"It's a terrible thing to hear one's true name called by strangers," Alder said, "and it's a
terrible thing to be called by the dead."
He tried to turn and climb back up the hill, away from the wall; but his legs had the
awful weakness of dream and would not carry him. He fell to his knees to keep himself
from being drawn down to the wall, and called out for help, though there was no one to
help him; and so he woke in terror.
Since then, every night that he slept deeply, he found himself standing on the hill in the
dry grey grass above the wall, and the dead would crowd thick and shadowy below it,
pleading and crying to him, calling his name.
"I wake," he said, "and I'm in my own room. I'm not there, on that hillside. But I know
they are. And I have to sleep. I try to wake often, and to sleep in daylight when I can,
but I have to sleep at last. And then I am there, and they are there. And I can't go up the
hill. If I move it's always downhill, towards the wall. Sometimes I can turn my back to
them, but then I think I hear Lily among them, crying to me. And I turn to look for her.
And they reach out to me."
He looked down at his hands gripping each other.
"What am I to do?" he said.
Sparrowhawk said nothing.
After a long time Alder said, "The harper I told you of was a good friend to me. After a
while he saw there was something amiss, and when I told him that I couldn't sleep for
fear of my dreams of the dead, he urged me arid helped me to take ship's passage to
Ea, to speak to a grey wizard there." He meant a man trained in the School on Roke.
"As soon as that wizard heard what my dreams were he said I must go to Roke."
"What is his name?"
"Beryl. He serves the Prince of Ea, who is Lord of the Isle of Taon."
The old man nodded.
"He had no help to give me, he said, but his word was as good as gold to the ship's