The Swan Riders
“I needed to know everything, and I needed to know now, and so everything came. As if the air itself could be painted, Talis’s map—17C—hung in front of me. Compasses, charts, annotations. Information lay in glosses and depths across the visible world. I knew where I was going, and I knew how to get there.
It was midafternoon. The high sun curved off the sides of the white yurts as I ran. The willow scrub flashed by under me, yellow as fire. And all around me, people in doorways stopped what they... were doing and saluted.
I ran through the Swan Riders like a shock wave, and they bowed before me, and some fell to their knees.
Who were they? What did they want from me?
I was born to a crown, and thus have never once simply walked down a street. Always there have been eyes on me, and ways cleared before me. The strange thing was not the bowing but the running—the feeling not of procession but of chase, that what was happening was not about me, and would not wait for my arrival. Francis.MoreLess
It was midafternoon. The high sun curved off the sides of the white yurts as I ran. The willow scrub flashed by under me, yellow as fire. And all around me, people in doorways stopped what they... were doing and saluted.
I ran through the Swan Riders like a shock wave, and they bowed before me, and some fell to their knees.
Who were they? What did they want from me?
I was born to a crown, and thus have never once simply walked down a street. Always there have been eyes on me, and ways cleared before me. The strange thing was not the bowing but the running—the feeling not of procession but of chase, that what was happening was not about me, and would not wait for my arrival. Francis.MoreLess
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