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eBook Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
eBook Description: There's a Darkovan proverb that says that the word of a Hastur is as good as the oath of any other man. But proverbs have to start somewhere...

eBook Publisher: Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust, Published: Snows of Darkover, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2007

This eBook is part of the following series:

• Various Authors Darkover Series

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Words: 1997
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There was a great deal of comment all through the Domains when Valeria Ardais married the Heir to Hastur, Jeremy. It was not only that he was two years younger than she, but he was widely thought to be an intellectual lightweight, and as everyone knew, the maiden was a true scholar and thought by everyone to be destined for high position in a Tower.

What very few knew was that it was one of the real love matches of that unsentimental era. Queen Sara Elhalyn was notorious for her devotion to her late husband King Rafael, despite their arranged marriage, and her reign became an era of repression and firm parental control of the marriages of young women.

It did not become widely known that Valeria said to the Keeper of Arilinn itself--after meeting with Jeremy and falling head-over-heels in love with him--that if a marriage between them could not be arranged, she would fling herself from the walls of Arilinn to her death.

Even fewer people heard that the Keeper of Arilinn--also a Hastur, and an emmasca--had said to Dom Maurizio Ardais that if the girl was so deaf to good sense and her duty to the Tower she should be not only allowed, but encouraged, to commit suicide, to avoid encouraging this kind of rebellion in other disobliging daughters.