"Travellers scowl at us, and
countrymen give as scornful
names. "Strider" I am to one fat
man who lives within a day's
march of foes that would freeze
his heart, or lay his little town in
ruin, if he were not guarded
ceaselessly. Yet we would not
have it otherwise. If simple folk
are free from care and fear,
simple they will be, and we must
be secret to keep them so. "
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