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Cleindori, I have told you what you should do, Kerwin said, and there was
tenderness in his eyes. I have offered to find safety for all of you with the
Empire. You need not tell them more than you think they should know; but
even for that much they will be more than grateful; they will send you and the
children to safety on any world you choose.
Am I to go into exile because fools and fanatics yell and shout slogans in the
streets of Thendara?
Cassilde said, cradling her hands over her pregnant body as if to protect the
child that sheltered there, Fools and fanatics can be more dangerous than
the wise men. I am not afraid of Hastur, nor of the Council. And the people of
Arilinn itself they may despise us, but they will not harm us; no more than
Leonie harmed Damon, after the duel that won him the right to keep the
Forbidden Tower. But I am afraid of the fanatics, the conservatives who want
everything, including Arilinn and Hali, to go as they were in the times of our
grandsires. I cannot go to Terra, not until after my child is born; and the
children are too young for star-travel. But I think you should go, Cleindori.
Leave your child in the care of the Terrans, and go. I will ask shelter of the
Council; and I am sure they will have me at Neskaya.
Oh, Evanda and Avarra guard you, Cleindori said despairingly, looking at
her half-sister. I endanger you simply by remaining, do I not? You are not a
Keeper, Cassie, and you can go where you will and live as you will, but it is I, I
that am the renegade and under sentence of death, from the moment I stood
before them and proclaimed that I had made fools of them all, that Lewis and
I had been lovers for more than a year and yet I continued to work as Keeper
in their precious Arilinn! Lewis her voice broke. I loved him& and he died
for my love! Kennard should hate me for it. And yet he continues to fight for
me in the Council
Jeff said cynically, The death of Lewis Lanart-Alton has made Kennard Heir
to Alton, Cleindori.
And yet you want me to beg for the protection of the Council, from Lord
Hastur who has called me abominable things? Yet I will do it if you all ask me.
Jeff? Cassie? Arnad?
The tall man in the green-and-golden cloak came up behind Cleindori and put
his arms around her, laughing. He said, If any of us had any such thoughts
we would be ashamed to show it before you, Golden Bell! But I think we must
be realistic.
Believe me, the Terran said, I would rather defy them all, at least until the
Council has made its decision. But I think Cassilde should go to Neskaya, or at
least to Comyn Castle, until her child is born; no assassin can touch her there.
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The Council may disapprove of her, but they will protect her physically; she is
under no sentence of death.
Except, Cassilde said, that I have borne children to the despised Terrans.
Her mouth was wry.
Arnad said, You are not the first; nor will you be the last. There have been
intermarriages enough. No one, I think, cares, except the fanatics. And you,
Cleindori, must go; leave your child with the Terrans, who will protect him
even in Comyn Castle, the child of a forsworn Keeper might not be safe from
an assassin s knife, but the Terrans will protect him.
Cleindori s mouth quirked up in a smile. And what would induce the Terrans
to give refuge to the child of a renegade Keeper and the late Heir to Alton?
What is he to them?
How are they to know he is not my son? Kerwin asked. The Terrans have
none of your elaborate monitoring methods; the child calls me foster-father,
and there are not enough language experts on Darkover to know the
difference between the words. I am legally entitled to have my son reared in
the Spacemen s Orphanage; even if I thought my child s mother unfit to rear
him as befits the son of a Terran, they would accept him there. He came and
touched Cleindori s shoulder, a gesture of great tenderness. I beg you, breda;
let me do this, and send you to Terra for a year or two on another world, until
this fanaticism dies down, and then you can come back and teach, openly,
what you teach secretly now. Already, Valdir and Damon managed to
persuade the City Elders to license matrix mechanics as a profession; and
they are working in Thendara and Neskaya, and one day they will work in
Arilinn too. The Council does not like it, but how runs the proverb & the will
of Hastur is the will of Hastur, but it is not the law of the land. Let me do this
for you, breda. Let me send you to Terra.
Cleindori lowered her head. As you will, if you all think it best. You will go to
Neskaya, then, Cassie? What of you, Arnad?
I m tempted to go with you to Terra, the red-haired man in green and gold
said defiantly, but if you re going under Jeff s protection, it wouldn t be wise;
I suppose he ll have to call you his wife?
Cleindori shrugged. What do I care what it says on the Terran records? They
live in computers and believe that because their record says a thing it is true;
what do I care?
I ll go now, to make the arrangements, Jeff said, but are you all safe here?
I m not sure&
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Cleindori, I have told you what you should do, Kerwin said, and there was
tenderness in his eyes. I have offered to find safety for all of you with the
Empire. You need not tell them more than you think they should know; but
even for that much they will be more than grateful; they will send you and the
children to safety on any world you choose.
Am I to go into exile because fools and fanatics yell and shout slogans in the
streets of Thendara?
Cassilde said, cradling her hands over her pregnant body as if to protect the
child that sheltered there, Fools and fanatics can be more dangerous than
the wise men. I am not afraid of Hastur, nor of the Council. And the people of
Arilinn itself they may despise us, but they will not harm us; no more than
Leonie harmed Damon, after the duel that won him the right to keep the
Forbidden Tower. But I am afraid of the fanatics, the conservatives who want
everything, including Arilinn and Hali, to go as they were in the times of our
grandsires. I cannot go to Terra, not until after my child is born; and the
children are too young for star-travel. But I think you should go, Cleindori.
Leave your child in the care of the Terrans, and go. I will ask shelter of the
Council; and I am sure they will have me at Neskaya.
Oh, Evanda and Avarra guard you, Cleindori said despairingly, looking at
her half-sister. I endanger you simply by remaining, do I not? You are not a
Keeper, Cassie, and you can go where you will and live as you will, but it is I, I
that am the renegade and under sentence of death, from the moment I stood
before them and proclaimed that I had made fools of them all, that Lewis and
I had been lovers for more than a year and yet I continued to work as Keeper
in their precious Arilinn! Lewis her voice broke. I loved him& and he died
for my love! Kennard should hate me for it. And yet he continues to fight for
me in the Council
Jeff said cynically, The death of Lewis Lanart-Alton has made Kennard Heir
to Alton, Cleindori.
And yet you want me to beg for the protection of the Council, from Lord
Hastur who has called me abominable things? Yet I will do it if you all ask me.
Jeff? Cassie? Arnad?
The tall man in the green-and-golden cloak came up behind Cleindori and put
his arms around her, laughing. He said, If any of us had any such thoughts
we would be ashamed to show it before you, Golden Bell! But I think we must
be realistic.
Believe me, the Terran said, I would rather defy them all, at least until the
Council has made its decision. But I think Cassilde should go to Neskaya, or at
least to Comyn Castle, until her child is born; no assassin can touch her there.
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The Council may disapprove of her, but they will protect her physically; she is
under no sentence of death.
Except, Cassilde said, that I have borne children to the despised Terrans.
Her mouth was wry.
Arnad said, You are not the first; nor will you be the last. There have been
intermarriages enough. No one, I think, cares, except the fanatics. And you,
Cleindori, must go; leave your child with the Terrans, who will protect him
even in Comyn Castle, the child of a forsworn Keeper might not be safe from
an assassin s knife, but the Terrans will protect him.
Cleindori s mouth quirked up in a smile. And what would induce the Terrans
to give refuge to the child of a renegade Keeper and the late Heir to Alton?
What is he to them?
How are they to know he is not my son? Kerwin asked. The Terrans have
none of your elaborate monitoring methods; the child calls me foster-father,
and there are not enough language experts on Darkover to know the
difference between the words. I am legally entitled to have my son reared in
the Spacemen s Orphanage; even if I thought my child s mother unfit to rear
him as befits the son of a Terran, they would accept him there. He came and
touched Cleindori s shoulder, a gesture of great tenderness. I beg you, breda;
let me do this, and send you to Terra for a year or two on another world, until
this fanaticism dies down, and then you can come back and teach, openly,
what you teach secretly now. Already, Valdir and Damon managed to
persuade the City Elders to license matrix mechanics as a profession; and
they are working in Thendara and Neskaya, and one day they will work in
Arilinn too. The Council does not like it, but how runs the proverb & the will
of Hastur is the will of Hastur, but it is not the law of the land. Let me do this
for you, breda. Let me send you to Terra.
Cleindori lowered her head. As you will, if you all think it best. You will go to
Neskaya, then, Cassie? What of you, Arnad?
I m tempted to go with you to Terra, the red-haired man in green and gold
said defiantly, but if you re going under Jeff s protection, it wouldn t be wise;
I suppose he ll have to call you his wife?
Cleindori shrugged. What do I care what it says on the Terran records? They
live in computers and believe that because their record says a thing it is true;
what do I care?
I ll go now, to make the arrangements, Jeff said, but are you all safe here?
I m not sure&
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