Hammerfall
“If a village wishes to know what is in an au’it’s book, let them ask the au’it.
—The Book of Priests THE PRIESTS CAME to the Ila’s tent with their besha-drawn carts, and the chief priest, a haughty old man, strode angrily past Memnanan, went into the Ila’s tent and came out again with his hauteur aimed solely at the junior priests and with a very chastened demeanor toward Memnanan.
“We are,” the chief priest said, every word labored, “to take the library in our charge. Where shall we dispose it...?”
“Men of mine will guide you down,” Memnanan told him, and with a nod of his head toward Marak: “He has the Ila’s authority in this matter.”
The priest looked at Marak in dismay, and turned to the junior priests to give orders. Aui’it came out, bearing books; and so priests went in, and servants, so that it became a hand-to-hand stream, loading the leather-bound books into their arms, one to the next past the veils and curtains of the interior, and servants passed books on to priests and soldiers outside, and they laid them carefully onto carts which would have fared very well on the pavings of the city.MoreLess
—The Book of Priests THE PRIESTS CAME to the Ila’s tent with their besha-drawn carts, and the chief priest, a haughty old man, strode angrily past Memnanan, went into the Ila’s tent and came out again with his hauteur aimed solely at the junior priests and with a very chastened demeanor toward Memnanan.
“We are,” the chief priest said, every word labored, “to take the library in our charge. Where shall we dispose it...?”
“Men of mine will guide you down,” Memnanan told him, and with a nod of his head toward Marak: “He has the Ila’s authority in this matter.”
The priest looked at Marak in dismay, and turned to the junior priests to give orders. Aui’it came out, bearing books; and so priests went in, and servants, so that it became a hand-to-hand stream, loading the leather-bound books into their arms, one to the next past the veils and curtains of the interior, and servants passed books on to priests and soldiers outside, and they laid them carefully onto carts which would have fared very well on the pavings of the city.MoreLess
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