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- The Vigil does its best, but usually it's better to burn the remains on the battlefield and send back only the belongings.
- Which shaman will do the send-off?
- His totem was Wolf.
- IS Wolf.
- Is Wolf. Spirits keep him.
- It's a boy. We named him Invern, after my father.
- By Wolf's grin! Congratulations. What a joyous occasion! Come, have an ale with us.
- Some other time. I have to get back to the cabin.
- Then, have no fear. We'll drink plenty—to you, to the boy, and to his mother!
- How's the mother?
- She's tough as drake hide, that one. An hour after the birth, she was getting breakfast for us.
- Cooking so soon?
- Cooking? No. She was out hunting rabbit!
- It's obvious to me. Why else would we have started awakening if it weren't to fight dragons?
- Humans have a concept called "coincidence." It means two events that appear related but are not.
- Then why do I feel the call to fight them and their creations?
- Humans have another concept called "mystery."
- What's it like to feel the call?
- It's difficult to describe. It's a tightness in your chest and a buzz in the back of your head.
- You can't stop thinking about what must be done. It gnaws at you and climbs your soul like a parasitic vine.
- That sounds unpleasant.
- Being a Wyld Hunt valiant makes me no better than anyone else. It merely means I have a more firmly defined purpose.
- You have a responsibility.
- I have a responsibility because I am alive. We all do. Being a Wyld Hunt valiant just means I know quite clearly how to fulfill mine.
- When I dipped my ladle into the Dream's knowledge pool, I think I accidentally used the straining spoon.
- (laugh) I know what you mean. My knowledge of the world feels spotty, at best.
- Oh, to be omniscient. (laugh) I haven't the slightest idea how to cook, but I know a word like "omniscient."
- (laugh) The Pale Tree sees all. We must believe she showed us exactly what we need to know.
- I never knew the world was so vast and diversified. I awaken each morning excited by what I might discover.
- Leaving the Grove was the hardest thing I've ever done, but I'm glad I did.
- We should make a vow to always stay together.
- But what if I'm called to a Wyld Hunt and have to go?
- The Dream would not be so cruel.
- They brought his body back. They actually carried it here from the fighting.
- Oh dear. Did they say why?
- I believe they were afraid it would become contaminated. They wanted to make sure it wouldn't get back up, so they burned it.
- Poor Niall. Gone on the wind like last night's kindling.
- Niall awoke at mid-morning.
- He was a Noon bloom then?
- Yes. I think it suits him to have been killed in battle.
- I hope he's pleased that it happened so.
- I will always remember him, sitting astride the wall, beaming down at me and daring me to climb up there beside him.
- Did you?
- No. My attention was too quickly drawn to a flock of birds rising from a nearby tree. I wondered what had startled them.
- You come from Dusk. Niall understood that.
- Your training begins now. Do what you can to mend your own armor. You have until dawn to regrow it.
- Until dawn? But—
- You cannot be a but-head, if you wish to be my squire and learn what I know.
- I don't think that word means what you think it does. And yet...
- How's she doing?