“Actually, you stepped over him. You sank your axe into the man who had just struck him down. And waded deeper into the battle without even a glance back at him.” She looked at me from the corner of her eye. “That is why I sing ‘Antler Tower Raid’ slightly differently from any other minstrel. He told me of it, and I sing you as he saw you. A hero. You saved his life.”

