fight me. She had slain herself, and the woman who does that has no combat left in her.'
His voice sank to a murmur. Then he laughed.
'Go out now, Edwina Bond. There is much to be done in the Dark World!'
So, leaning upon his arm, I went down the long steps that Ganelyn had climbed. I saw the green glimmer of the day outside, the shimmer of leaves, the motion of waiting people. I remembered all that Ganelyn had remembered, but upon the mind of Ganelyn the mind of Edwina Bond was forever superimposed, and I knew that only thus could the Dark World be ruled.
The two together, twinned forever in one body, and the control forever mine -- Edwina Bond's.
We came out under the emptied arch of the opening, and daylight was blinding for a moment after that haunted darkness. Then I saw the foresters anxiously clustering in then- battered ranks around the Caer, and I saw a pale boy in green, haloed by his floating hair, turn a face of incredulous radiance to mine.
I forgot the pain in my side.
Ares' hair swam like mist about us both as my arms closed around him. The roar of exultation that went up from the forest people swept the clearing and made the great Caer behind us echo through all its hollow vaults.
The Dark World was free, and ours.
But Medeo, Medeo, red warlock of Colchis, how we might have reigned together!
THE END
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