The Only
Katherine Applegate
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“assured me. Still, I saw nothing. “Ambassador! Ambassador Delgaroth!” she called. The water parted with barely a ripple as he rose to the surface. Delgaroth was the deep blue of the sky just before night, with dazzling green markings on his flanks and face. His eyes were large for a natite, with dark blue irises surrounded by soft turquoise. When he blinked, it was with one or both of his two sets of eyelids. The first set was opaque, the second translucent. I’d been told that the clear eyelids allowed natites to see beneath the water. “Good morning to you, Ambassador,” said Khara with a nod. “And to you, Lady Kharassande of the Donatis,” Delgaroth said.”
“Your horse's name is Victory," the general told Khara. "Good name," she said as she tightened the girth on her saddle. "Let's hope it's not ironic.”
“Wobbyks have a saying, 'Grow tall as a sapling, not tall as a weed. One is watered, the other cut down.' It means that you can set yourself greater than others, but only if you're a tree that gives shade. Not if you're a useless plant that must be cut down.”
“We'd won. I wondered if defeat could feel any worse than victory.”
“The weak and frightened long to kill, The blood of innocents to spill. 'Tis ever easier to hate, Than learn to love, or to create.”
“See that vine?" I said to Tobble. "My siblings and I used to swing out from it, then land in the lake." I gave a small laugh. "Well, they did anyway. I was too afraid." "You? Afraid?" "Always and forever," I said. "I'm beginning to think that's how life works." "Are we stopping here?" Tobble asked. "The horses are well watered." "Yes, but I'm not. Do you know what I need, Tobble? I need a swim." I checked the icy water with a long stick to be sure it was as deep as I recalled. Two silver fish darted past. As I clambered to a low-hanging branch, I felt a familiar shiver of anticipation and dread, and for a moment, I was the old Byx, with all her hopes and fears and longings. Then I kicked off as hard as I could, swung far out over the pond, and let go.”
“Now get some sleep. You are about to go on an adventure." "A dangerous adventure," I murmured. "Byx, my friend. Is there any other kind?”
“Not so long ago, I was just a silly pup. The runt of my litter. Self-involved, naive, impatient to see the world. Well, I'd certainly gotten my wish. I'd seen far too much of the world. I'd seen enough pain and danger and death to last several lifetimes. I was no longer Byx, the innocent daydreamer, curious and carefree. The pup who could gaze for hours at a swarm of rainbow-winged butterbats dancing on the wind. The old Byx didn't gallop into battle to kill eshwins, yelling in triumph like a fool as they fell. Perhaps Tobble was right that better times awaited us. Perhaps the old Byx was hiding somewhere deep in my heart. Perhaps. But for now I had to go wash the blood from my fur.”
“Like I told Maxyn, courage is not the absence of fear. We were all afraid. We just weren't going to let fear stop us.”
“I wonder, Byx," said Khara, "amid all the comfort and ease you have now, do you ever miss the days when we were racing from here to there, in constant danger, running for our lives?" "No," I said. "Not at all." Tobble shook his head. "I sure don't." "Me neither," Renzo agreed. "Nor do I," said Khara. It didn't take a dairne to know that all four of us had lied.”
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