The Other Wind (Earthsea Cycle, #6)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

IT WAS THE STRONG TIDE of the full moon, and Dolphin had to wait for the slack to run between the Armed Cliffs. Tenar did not disembark in Gont Port till midmorning, and then there was the long walk uphill. It was near sunset when she came through Re Albi and took the cliff path to the house. Ged was watering the cabbages, well grown by now. He straightened up and looked at her coming to him, that hawk look, frowning. “Ah,” he said. “Oh my dear,” she said. She hurried, the last few steps, as he came to her.