sleep.  about getting up to polisaff or a bo  ery porridge, sour wine, hem down.

    quot;t; s meat, undrinkable kter bread. For a  least. Menna ting  mattered to er all tacit understandings muchough of course he had never married her.

    e, even in tate, far from   long, blind journey seventeen years ago, sure t a murderous pursuit was riding close behind.

    o tumn long ago: strangers arriving in a dark time. A time ed all across tyrants coming. But to make t fortandos bad years latterly

    o deplete   for, at t?

    Really,  be for? Menna and t count t still came in s.

    deal in ter, in a different   so burdened by irony as to defeat  of  t.  being unique in this.

    quot;Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us from—triad save us!”

    Menna fell silent, very abruptly. And for t suddenly uprig a sest from : a sound outside in t. In t, when no one should be abroad.

    Listening carefully  it again: te and faint, of pipes playing in tside, passing by trating, t footsteps. ed them.

    t beating dangerously fast,  of bed as quickly as o dress.

    quot;It is t; Menna ;Adaon preserve us from vengeful gs, from all als guard our souls!”

    Despite ation to note t Menna, even in ill included   moment  t t— o be s domestic torment.

    side, of course. ly ick by tly as  t as good as  in trying to slip out un he price.

    Because ts and ots for almost ten years no inside t to t door and used ick to roll back t out. Menna ;Eanna love me, A