Then the rest of the day, he'd have me at his heels. So he taught me what he knew of it, and arranged for me to learn it from a man who knew its strategies. They'd just handed me a pike and sent me out to fight. I'd never had any formal training at it before. Weapons practice till neither of us could stand. He took a thieving, unkempt scoundrel and. It was what he believed a man should want to be. I know you've heard people say Chivalry was cold and stiff and correct to a fault. "When I woke up, the dog had a master again.
He did not need to explain further to me. Or at least, to have the shape of one." Burrich was silent a moment. A mare in season, and the better stallion to have her. Sometimes he put Neko to fight other stallions, as some men fight dogs or cocks for amusement. I had the care of him, but he was not mine.
"When the Sandsedge war was done, Duke Grizzle took me home to his own stables. Or as if he'd been pushed past anger and hurt into numbness. It was as if my angry words had never been spoken. I felt no hostility from him, no animosity. He sat on it and began taking his boots off. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense. There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. Perhaps Chade could leech some of the poison I'd sprayed at Burrich. Perhaps Burrich could talk Chade into coming back until morning. I felt jealous that they were together while I was alone. He made me see it was more than rules, it was a way of being. He taught me to be a man, not a beast in a man's shape. He showed them to me as a man's values, not just manners for inside a woman's house.
He put a value on what my mother and grandmother had tried to instill in me so long ago. Then in general charge of the pack beasts and wagon animals. "He taught me numbers first, then reading. "Only in the way that people who know one another best know how to hurt one another best," I pleaded.
0 kommentar(er)
