“What is the wisdom in it?” “Because the world is made up not only of what is but of what might be. Maleldil knows both and wants us to know both.” “This is more than I ever thought of. The other—the Piebald one—has already told me things which made me feel like a tree whose branches were growing wider and wider apart. But this goes beyond all. Stepping out of what is into what might be and talking and making things out there . . . alongside the world. I will ask the King what he thinks of it.” “You see, that is what we always come back to. If only you had not been parted from the King.” “Oh,
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