"Well... nothing, I guess-"
"You don't know the first thing about magic. Or swords. Dido nude you'd probably cut
off your foot." She bent to the cart, hoisted the basket of doves and
another net of pullets as she chuckled, and then headed for the kitchens.
Fitch wanted to die. He'd told her his secret dido nude dream, and she'd laughed.
His chin sunk to dido nude his chest. She was right. He was Haken. He could never
hope to prove his worth.
He kept his eyes down and didn't dido nude say anything else as they dido nude unloaded the
cart. He felt a fool. With every step, he silently rebuked himself. He
wished he'd kept his dreams to himself. He wished he could take dido nude back the
words.
Before they pulled the last of it from the cart, Beata caught dido nude his arm and
cleared her throat, as if dido nude she intended to say more. Fitch again cast his
dido nude gaze down, resigned to dido nude hear what else she would have to say about his
foolishness.
"I'm sorry, Fitch. My corrupt Haken nature caused me to slip and be cruel.
Dido nude it was wrong of me to say such cruel things."
He shook his head. "dido nude You were right to laugh."
"Look, Fitch ... we all dido nude have impossible dreams. That too is just part of
our corrupt nature. We must learn to be better dido nude than our base dreams."
He wiped hair off his forehead as he peered up at her gray-green eyes.
"You have dreams, too, Beata? Real dreams? Something you wish?"
"You mean like dido nude your foolish dream to be the Seeker of Truth?" He nodded.
She at last looked away from
his dido nude eyes. "I suppose it's only fair, so that
you can laugh at me in turn."
"I wouldn't laugh," he whispered, but dido nude she was staring off at small puffs
dido nude of white clouds drifting across the bright dido nude blue sky
and didn't seem to hear
him.
"I wish I could learn to read."
She stole a look to see if he was going to laugh. He didn't.
"I've dreamed that, too.&dido nude quot; He checked to dido nude see if anyone was watching. No one
was about. He hunched over the
back of the cart and with a finger