That moral poison was latent at present, but it crouched in him like a predator, awaiting its time to spring.

But in its place grew the venom that a Raver and the Sunbane had afflicted upon him. In ways which none but she could perceive, he was sick with power His native illness, his leprosy, was quiescent, even though he had lost or surrendered most of the self-protective disciplines which kept it slumberous. When Linden had asked him for an explanation, he had replied, I'm already too dangerous. Yet this morning he had given the krill away. Covenant needed that blade, both as a weapon to take the place of the wild magic which destroyed peace and as a defense against the mystery of Vain, the Demondim-spawn. And that hope was founded on the fact that he had given them Loric's krill to use against the Sunbane. But Covenant had just sent the two Stonedownors, Sunder and Hollian, back toward the Upper Land in the hope that they would be able to muster resistance among the villages against the depredations of the Clave. Its vitality offered gladness to her senses. As she and the Unbeliever, with Brinn, Cail, and then Vain behind them, descended toward the headrock and piers of The Grieve, she could have studied that craft with pleasure.

Below them, the stone Giantship, Starfare's Gem, came gliding toward the sole intact levee at the foot of the ancient city but she paid no heed to it Earlier, she had witnessed the way the dromond rode the wind like a boon-at once massive and delicate, full-sailed and precise-a vessel of hope for Covenant's quest, and for her own. Donaldson The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Book Five (Version 1.0 - ) PART I: Risk ONE: Starfare's Gem LINDEN AVERY walked beside Covenant down through the ways of Coercri.

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