For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.


Chapter 7, The Snow-Waste (p. 69) - Short fiction - Companions on the Road (1975)

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For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already...

For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already...

For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already...

For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor's mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already...