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Ged had come home to die and it was the end of everything, there was nothing left, nothing to be done, but she must do it.
‘Which of us saved the other from the Labyrinth, Ged?’
Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling.
‘Oh, well, dearie, a woman’s a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark.’
Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?’
‘I lived long enough in the dark,’
pure recognition beyond emotion.
and all I knew was you – in the whole world all I knew was you, there by me as we walked …
‘Coming back from death must be a long journey – even on the dragon’s back. It will take time. Time and quiet, silence, stillness. You have been hurt. You will be healed.’
witch knows witch, and power knows power,
You need not fear him. You must not fear him. He wants you to fear him. He feeds on your fear. We will starve him, Therru. We’ll starve him till he eats himself. Till he chokes gnawing on the bones of his own hands
‘I will never dream of the sky, down there.’
What word meant anything, against deaf violence?
‘You are beautiful,’ Tenar said in a different tone. ‘Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren’t the scars. You aren’t ugly. You aren’t evil. You are Therru, and beautiful.
But it was not enough, the right and the truth. There was a gap, a void, a gulf, on beyond the right and the truth.
Beware. Beware her, the day she finds her strength! That’s all.’
They were in the dark – in the dark hall. The dark passage. They had been there before, leading each other, following each other, in the darkness underneath the earth.
‘Do you know him?’ ‘Yes. I know him. I went on a long journey with him.’ ‘Where?’ ‘To where the sun doesn’t rise and the stars don’t set. And back from that place.’
She obeys me, but only because she wants to.’ ‘It’s the only justification for obedience,’
‘Infinite are the arguments of mages,’
‘If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear,’
‘Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.’
‘Are they ever taught to trust themselves?’ Ged asked, and as he spoke Therru came in on her work again. His eyes and Tenar’s met. ‘No,’ she ...
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‘But we don’t know the riddle. We only know the answer to it. The answer is: A woman on Gont.’
‘Our thanks, Eldest.’
‘I think we can live there,’ she said.
