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You begin to sing "Nissa's Ride" by the famed bard Silvyrfrost. |
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"Lanival's eyes were the color of gray |
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Cold as the ice on the lake |
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Mantled he sat on his stallion Fairstorm |
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Knowing that much lay at stake. |
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"Knowing that all lay at stake. |
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"Mantled he sat, in a cowl of woolen silver |
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And stared at the lowering sky |
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Teiro's men lay across on Mereshadow's shore |
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And he knew to win, men must die. |
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"Knowing in war, men must die." |
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"Weary he played with the plans in his mind |
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Two years the war had gone |
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Weary as he were his soldiers in tow |
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Longing with him for spring's sun. |
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"Aye, longing as all for warm sun. |
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"When shining from the shadows on the back of a mare |
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Came a maiden with hair toss'd wild |
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Elven her features, frightened her visage |
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Carrying with her a bleeding child. |
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"Carrying a bleeding Human child." |
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"'Water!' cried she, leaping from her steed. |
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'Water and someplace inside. |
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This child is dying, I've no time for formalities, |
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And my Elven face I shall not hide.' |
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"'No, my hated face I cannot hide!' |
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"Lanival saw her to his own tent, |
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Saw her heal the child with her hands |
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Saw her bandage the wounds then turn to him |
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So tired she hardly could stand. |
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"So spent she barely could stand." |
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"Lanival helped her to sit in a chair, |
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Held a cup as instructed to her lips. |
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And grateful she drank, and thanked him in Common, |
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Then into sleep she slipped. |
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"Aye, deep into sleep she slipped. |
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"And when she's awoken she's seen the child's well |
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And turn'd to face Lanival once more. |
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'Nissa is my name,' she said to the proud one, |
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'Fresh coming from Teiro's own shore. |
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"'A place I shall go nevermore!'" |
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"And her tale then she told, of how Teiro's men |
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Captured the child and brought it to pains |
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And how Teiro himself brought down the whip |
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And Nissa at last intervened. |
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"Nissa had no choice but to intervene! |
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"'War may be war,' she said clear and sure, |
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'And blood may indeed be war's fee, |
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But children are not soldiers, save in dreams and play |
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And children are all the same to me. |
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'Whether Human or Elven they be!" |
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"'Lady, you are wise,' said Lanival to her, |
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'And the gods smile on such kindness indeed. |
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It can be forgotten in times such as this.... |
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Pray, would you stay to remind me? |
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'I feel there is much you may teach me.' |
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"Nissa spake clear as ice and snow |
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And said to Lanival plain, |
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'I've secrets to tell, and I'll gladly join up, |
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If you promise I need not see Teiro again! |
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'If I do I shall be his bane!'" |
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"So it was that the Maiden did join with his men, |
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And brought Teiro to thundering shame |
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The battle was fast, and Lanival won |
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But many battles would happen again. |
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"But none would e'er be the same. |
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"For there is a new soldier who does not fight |
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And she rides at Lanival's side |
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On a mare of all white, in a cowl like the snow |
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And she reminds him that not all must die. |
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"That to fight, one must not always die." |
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The song falls into silence like a winter's day. |
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