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“I know your craft is important to you, but it almost killed you tonight." "The blaekhound almost killed me," she argued. "And you were only there because you think that it's your job, and yours alone, to protect Blackthorn" he said patiently. "It is, though. You're the one who told me that Blackthorn is the reason I'm a hedgewitch." "And the sea shapes the the coast, but is the coast the keeper of the sea?" "I'm not sand," Aziza said, exasperated.”

“I am not going to tell you my name, not yet at any rate.' A queer half-knowing, half-humorous look came with a green flicker into his eyes. 'For one thing it would take a long while: my name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time saying anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.”