Four Ulls Square

The peddler’s voice comes muffled through the sharkskin. “You cannot smack away a goblin. Slap one aside and you won’t get the hood on in time. Take it off.”
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Bessil walks the Path of the World and sees the people of the square.
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Bessil breaks bread with Vesh, overseer of the peasants.
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The Sky goes dark and Bessil huddles in the light of the lantern as goblins eye him with hunger.
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Bessil sees peasant folk up close for the first time in his life as we approach the harvest.
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Bessil discovers the utility of the dolls -
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What's the Legions?
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Bessil wonders at the Floating Stones while the peddler has other business.
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Bessil sits with Sabra and doesn't know his future.
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Bessil hears Gerda's story and learns how to be safe from goblins in Lake Town.
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"I push my hand back in, feeling the goblin slap up against the rock, I open its mouth open by main force and twist its head to the side."
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"Her eyes beg me to stay in the Sailor’s Dream."
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"Sabra tucks her shells away, leaving Gerda in her divining bowl on her little basket-box."
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“If you come near Sabra again, I will throw you off the World.”
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“You can consign no one to the goblins!”
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I don't dream of Gerda. I dream of a dragon.
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“If you come back to me in dream, I must walk away.”
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Bessil has a new responsibility -
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Bessil, the peddler, and their charge stop to rest -
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Aunty's story -
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Aunty misses her son -
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"Any voice you hear that is real is muffled by the hood."
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Aunty sits with Bessil through the Sprites -
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Bessil makes his only trade -
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Bessil settles in for a long, cold dark with strangers.
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The dark settles in and Bessil remembers the last time.
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Bessil's companions settle in for the cold and the dark.
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Dragons play in Sailor's Dreams.
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The darkness lifts, briefly, but the cold continues.
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Lianth tells Bessil about the People of the Square.
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The cold seeps into the root cellar and near the last food is to be eaten.
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No one can see a goblin in the light that burns them - but Bessil has seen -
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Bessil helps the peasants take their brethren to a dubious rest.
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Bessil says Goodbye to the People of the Square.
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Bessil looks up at the Pillar of the World.
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Bessil is now on the other side of the stream, with the grown-ups.
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Bessil hears the scraping of goblins and another strange sound.
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Bessil returns to a familiar place -
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What mother makes from four ulls of cloth -
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I know Senthra-sha-lews-tlanvee by name and by sight from my dreams.
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The leviathans fly free in skies far from skerries and fear only dragons and, sometimes, man.
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