“Do you know what Re’lar means?” he asked me conversationally. “It translates as ‘speaker,’” I said. “Do you know what it means?” he stressed the word. “Not really,” I admitted. Elodin drew a deep breath. “Once upon a time, there was a University. It was built in the dead ruins of an older University. It wasn’t very big, perhaps fifty people in all. But it was the best University for miles and miles, so people came and learned and left. There was a small group of people who gathered there. People whose knowledge went beyond mathematics and grammar and rhetoric. “They started a smaller group
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