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Le Guin, Ursula - [Earthsea 05] The Other Wind

master. So I went on the water again. That was a long journey, coasting clear round
Havnor and down the Inmost Sea. I thought maybe being on the water, far from Taon,
always farther, I might leave the dream behind me. The wizard on Ea called that place
in my dream the dry land, and I thought maybe I'd be going away from it, going on the
sea. But every night I was there on the hillside. And more than once in the night, as
time went on. Twice, or three times, or every time my eyes close, I'm on the hill, and
the wall below me, and the voices calling me. So I'm like a man crazy with the pain of
a wound who can find peace only in sleep, but the sleep is my torment, with the pain
and anguish of the wretched dead all crowding at the wall, and my fear of them."
The sailors soon began to shun him, he said, at night because he cried out and woke
them with his miserable wakenings, and in daylight because they thought there was a
curse on him or a gebbeth in him.
"And no relief for you on Roke?"
"In the Grove," Alder said, and his face changed entirely when he said the word.
Sparrowhawk's face had the same look for a moment.
"The Master Patterner took me there, under those trees, and I could sleep. Even at
night I could sleep. In daylight, if the sun's on me—it was like that in the afternoon,
yesterday, here—if the warmth of the sun's on me and the red of the sun shines through
my eyelids, I don't fear to dream. But in the Grove there was no fear at all, and I could
love the night again."
"Tell me how it was when you came to Roke."
Though hampered by weariness, anguish, and awe, Alder had the silver tongue of his
island; and what he left out for fear of going on too long or telling the Archmage what
he already knew, his listener could well imagine, remembering when he himself first
came to the Isle of the Wise as a boy of fifteen.
When Alder left the ship at the docks at Thwil Town, one of the sailors had drawn the
rune of the Closed Door on the top of the gangplank to prevent his ever coming back
aboard. Alder noticed it, but he thought the sailor had good cause. He felt himself ill-
omened; he felt he bore darkness in him. That made him shyer than he would have
been in any case in a strange town. And Thwil was a very strange town.
"The streets lead you awry," Sparrowhawk said.
"They do that, my lord!—I'm sorry, my tongue will obey my heart, and not you—"
"Never mind. I was used to it once. I can be Lord Goatherd again, if it eases your
speech. Go on."
Misdirected by those he asked, or misunderstanding the directions, Alder wandered
about the hilly little labyrinth of Thwil Town with the School always in sight and never
able to get to it, until, having reached despair, he came to a plain door in a bare wall on
a dull square. After staring at it a while he recognised the wall was the one he had been
trying to get to. He knocked, and a man with a quiet face and quiet eyes opened the
door.
Alder was ready to say that he had been sent by the wizard Beryl of Ea with a message
for the Master Summoner, but he didn't have a chance to speak. The Doorkeeper gazed
at him a moment and said mildly, "You cannot bring them into this house, friend."

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