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. 'Only in the way that people who know one another best know how to hurt one another best,' I pleaded.

And he said, `All right, show me how you held off five men.' And lit into me.' He cleared his throat. I thought he intended to beat me to death. He took off his shirt and picked up a pike from the corner. Then he stood up without a word and pushed his table back to a corner of the room.

He sat behind his table, some half-finished writing before him, and looked me up and down. 'Chivalry dismissed the Guards, with a purse to pay for damages to the tavern keeper. 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. 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 said he feared more to stay, feared he could not keep his resolve with you. 'Right on target.' The sound he made might have been a laugh, if not so freighted with bitterness.

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