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and people, which Alder had never dared try to do.
So rather than his teaching her, they put their skills together and taught each other
more than either had ever known. She came back to Elini and lived with Alder's
mother Blackberry, who taught her various useful appearances and effects and ways of
impressing customers, if not much actual witch knowledge. Lily was her name; and
Lily and Alder worked together there and in all the hill towns nearby, as their
reputation grew.
"And I came to love her," Alder said. His voice had changed when he began to speak
of her, losing its hesitancy, growing urgent and musical.
"Her hair was dark, but with a shining of red gold in it," he said.
There was no way he could hide his love from her, and she knew it and returned it.
Whether she was a witch now or not, she said she did not care; she said the two of

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them were born to be together, in their work and in their life; she loved him and would
be married to him.
So they were married, and lived in very great happiness for a year, and half a second
year.
"Nothing was wrong at all until the time came for the child to be born," Alder said.
"But it was late, and then very late. The midwives tried to bring on the birth with herbs
and spells, but it was as if the child would not let her bear it. It would not be separated
from her. It would not be born. And it was not born. It took her with it."
After a while he said, "We had great joy."
"I see that."
"And my sorrow was in that degree."
The old man nodded.
"I could bear it," Alder said. "You know how it is. There was not much reason to be
living that I could see, but I could bear it."
"Yes."
"But in the winter. Two months after her death. There was a dream came to me. She
was in the dream."
‘Tell it.
"I stood on a hillside. Along the top of the hill and running down the slope was a wall,
low, like a boundary wall between sheep pastures. She was standing across the wall
from me, below it. It was darker there."
Sparrowhawk nodded once. His face had gone rock hard.
"She was calling to me. I heard her voice saying my name, and I went to her. I knew
she was dead, I knew it in the dream, but I was glad to go. I couldn't see her clear, and
I went to her to see her, to be with her. And she reached out across the wall. It was no
higher than my heart. I had thought she might have the child with her, but she did not.
She was reaching her hands out to me, and so I reached out to her, and we took each
others hands."
"You touched?"
"I wanted to go to her, but I could not cross the wall. My legs would not move. I tried
to draw her to me, and she wanted to come, it seemed as if she could, but the wall was
there between us. We couldn't get over it. So she leaned across to me and kissed my
mouth and said my name. And she said, 'Set me free!'
"I thought if I called her by her true name maybe I could free her, bring her across that