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Knight or Knave by
Andre Norton and Sasha
Miller
Prologue
In the Cave of the Weavers, the ancient ones toiled over their
work, adding first a dusty green strand, then a blue one, then
another of brighter green, then gold ones, as their brown old
hands twinkled deftly. Each addition sank into the Web
Everlasting even before they had let go of it, though the pattern
was not yet clear.

The youngest of the Three touched a spot where the dusty
green and blue strands crossed. "Is it meet," she asked, "that we
blend two mortals in this way, with one doomed?"

"It is meet and altogether meet," replied the Eldest. "For look
you here."

She pointed to a design in the Web that was beginning to take
shape farther along in the sheet of Time. In form and fashion
this design resembled a heavy snowstorm and in it moved fell
shapes, each more terrifying than the last. The Youngest
recoiled, more a movement of the head than of the body.

"Is that what they will have to face?" she said.

"All in due time, Sister," said the middle one placidly. "We
have yet to reach that point, for we have come to a spot where
things must change."
 "And we do not know yet what that change will be," said the
Eldest. "The Web will tell us."

"Then this joining of the ill-omened might ward off the horror
that is to come?"

"Perhaps. Perhaps. Be patient. The Web is bound to tell us. It
always has, in its own time."

The Youngest returned her attention to the most recent work.
"Nothing has blended well in this spot," she said.

"We cannot be concerned with the affairs of mortals," the