Until the waves grow sweet and sky and water meet.
Aye, if the Dryad spoke true.
"We sail East, lady, as far as our ship will carry us and as long as the winds will blow us--or until we find the very edge of the world."
He half-turns to her as they walk along, and smiles at the question. "I made an oath, you see, to find seven friends of my father who my uncle had exiled, and they were sent out over the Eastern Sea. That is my first reason, and I thought if I were to find them all I might count my voyage complete--until my dear friend Reepicheep told me of the prophecy spoken over him by a Dryad, a wood-woman, while he was still in his cradle. It speaks of finding the Utter East itself, and he has sworn not to rest until he has reached it. We sail with him as far as we may."
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Date: 2007-04-24 05:02 am (UTC)Aye, if the Dryad spoke true.
"We sail East, lady, as far as our ship will carry us and as long as the winds will blow us--or until we find the very edge of the world."
He half-turns to her as they walk along, and smiles at the question. "I made an oath, you see, to find seven friends of my father who my uncle had exiled, and they were sent out over the Eastern Sea. That is my first reason, and I thought if I were to find them all I might count my voyage complete--until my dear friend Reepicheep told me of the prophecy spoken over him by a Dryad, a wood-woman, while he was still in his cradle. It speaks of finding the Utter East itself, and he has sworn not to rest until he has reached it. We sail with him as far as we may."