Dream of Me/Believe in Me

better manners. Had I realized you were a girl …” He paused and shrugged. “I would still have come after you because you really should not be without escort. But I would have tried to take you by surprise so you would not run off and get hurt.”
    Truth.
    “Yes, well, that's fine, but there is no need for you to be concerned. I am meeting my … my brother just a short distance from here.”
    Strictly speaking, Normandy was a far journey. But there were much greater distances to go, all the way to fabled Byzantium or even to the lands farther to the east and south. If that weren't enough, there were tales of a land to the west where mountains ran with molten fury and vast vents of steam rose from the sundered earth. Some of those who claimed to have seen such a place told stranger stories yet of a land yet farther to the west, endowed with rugged coastlines and endless forests. Besides all that, Normandy might as well be the neighboring village. So she wasn't really lying … not entirely.
    “Fine,” the warrior said. “I will take you to him.”

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