'
'Yea,' said Face-of-god, 'that may well be. But deemest thou by that
token that we shall be vanquished?'
'As for us, I know not,' said Stone-face; 'but thy friends of Shadowy
Vale have been vanquished. Moreover, concerning these felons whom
now we are hunting, are we all so sure that they be men? Certain it
is, that when I go into battle with them, I shall smite with no more
pity than my sword, as if I were smiting things that may not feel the
woes of man.'
Said Face-of-god: 'Yea, even so shall it be with me. But what
thinkest thou of these runaways? Shall we have tidings of them, or
shall Dallach bring the foe upon us? It was for the sake of that
question that I have clomb the burg: and that we might watch the
land about us.'
'Nay,' said Stone-face, 'I have seen many men, and I deem of Dallach
that he is a true man. I deem we shall soon have tidings of his
fellows; and they may have seen the elves and wood-wights: I would
fain ask them thereof, and am eager to see them.'
Said Face-of-god: 'And I somewhat dread to see them, and their rags
and their misery and the weals of their stripes.
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