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Elizabeth Moon - The Deed of Paksenarrion [vol 1] Sheepfarmer's Daughter

THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION

ELIZABETH MOON

[vol 1] Sheepfarmer 's Daughter

● PROLOGUE

● Chapter One

● Chapter Two

● Chapter Three

● Chapter Four

● Chapter Five

● Chapter Six

● Chapter Seven

● Chapter Eight

● Chapter Nine

● Chapter Ten

● Chapter Eleven

● Chapter Twelve

● Chapter Thirteen

● Chapter Fourteen

● Chapter Fifteen

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● Chapter Sixteen

● Chapter Seventeen

● Chapter Eighteen

● Chapter Nineteen

● Chapter Twenty

● Chapter Twenty-One

● Chapter Twenty-Two

● Chapter Twenty-Three

● Chapter Twenty-Four

● Chapter Twenty-Five

● Chapter Twenty-Six

● Chapter Twenty-Seven

● Chapter Twenty-Eight

● Chapter Twenty-Nine

● Chapter Thirty

● Chapter Thirty-One

THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION is the true heir to

middle earth

"This is the first work of high heroic fantasy I've seen that

has taken the work of Tolkien, assimilated it totally and

deeply and absolutely, and produced something altogether

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new and yet incontestably based on the master.... This is

the Fourth Age as it has to have been. This is the real

thing. World-building in the grand tradition, background

thought out to the last detail, by someone who knows

whereof she speaks. Her military knowledge is

impressive, her picture of life in a mercenary company

most convincing. I'm deeply impressed....

"After so many half-baked clones of Tolkien, and so

much generic medieval fantasy, I can't go on enough

about how delighted I am to find something of this

quality.

"Brava!"

-Judith Tarr

Baen Books By Elizabeth Moon

Hunting Party Sporting Chance Winning Colors Once a

Hero

Liar's Oath Surrender None: The Legacy of Gird

Sassinak (with Anne McCaffrey)

Generation Warriors (with Anne McCaffrey)

The Planet Pirates (with Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn

Nye)

THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION This is a work of

fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this

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book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or

incidents is purely coincidental.

book or portions thereof in any form.

Baen Publishing Enterprises PO Box 1403 Riverdale, NY

10471

ISBN: 0-671-72104-6 Cover art by Keith Parkinson

First printing, February 1992 Second printing, February

1992 Third printing, January 1995 Fourth printing,

November 1997

Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the

Americas

New York, NY 10020

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Deed Of Paksenarrion has been published in slightly

Prologue

In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills

above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the

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mantelpiece. One is very old and slightly bent, a sword

more iron than steel, dark as a pot: forged, so the tale

runs, by the smith in Rocky Ford — yet it is a sword, for

all that, and belonged to Kanas once, and tasted orcs'

blood and robbers' blood in its time. The other is a very

different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the

finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in

yellow firelight. The pommel's knot design is centered

with the deeply graven seal of St. Gird; the cross-hilts are

gracefully shaped and chased in gold.

The children of that place look at both swords with awe,

and on some long winter nights old Dorthan, grandfather

of fathers and graybeard now, takes from its carved chest

the scroll that came with the sword and reads aloud to his

family. But first he reminds them of the day a stranger

rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin

silver hair, and handed down the box and the sword,

naked as it hangs now.

"Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your

daughter Paksenarrion. She wishes you to have them and

has no need of them." And though he accepted water from

their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion,

whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she

would return or no.

The scroll Dorthan reads is headed The Deed of

Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs, and many are

the tales of courage and adventure written therein. Time

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and again the family has thrilled to the description of

Paksenarrion in battle — the littlest ones pressing close

around Dorthan's knees, and watching her sword on the

wall. They are sure it glows slightly when those tales are

read.

And always they ask, the little ones who never knew her,

what she was like. Just like that in the scroll? Always so

tall, so brave? And Dorthan remembers her face the night

she left, and is silent. One brother thinks of a long-legged

girl running down errant sheep; the youngest remembers

being carried on her shoulders, and the smell of her hair.

Besides this, legend is all they have. "She's dead," say

some. "She must be, or they wouldn't have sent her

sword."

"No," say others. "She is not dead. She is gone where she

doesn't need this sword."

And Dorthan turns to the end of the scroll, which solves

nothing... for the Deed is unfinished, ending abruptly in

the middle of a stanza.

And one of those children, the little ones, has climbed

from stool to table, and from table to mantelpiece, and

touched with a daring hand the hilt of each sword... and

then climbed down, to dream of songs and battles.

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Sheepfarmer 's Daughter

Chapter One

"And I say you will!" bellowed the burly sheepfarmer,

Dorthan Kanasson. He lunged across the table, but his

daughter Paksenarrion sidestepped his powerful arm and

darted down the passage to the sleeping rooms. "Pakse!"

he yelled, slipping his broad leather belt from its loops.

"Pakse, you come here now!" His wife Rahel and three

smaller children cowered against the wall. Silence from

the sleeping rooms. "Pakse, you come or it will be the

worse for you. Will you go to your wedding with welts on

your back?"

"I'll not go at all!" came the angry response.

"The dower's been given. You wed Fersin Amboisson

next restday. Now come out before I come in."

Suddenly she stood in the mouth of the passage, as tall as

he but slender, long blonde hair braided tightly. She had

changed to her older brother's clothes, a leather tunic over

her own shirt, and his homespun trousers. "I told you not

to give dower. I told you I wouldn't wed Fersin or anyone

else. And I won't. I'm leaving."

Dorthan glared at her as he wrapped the belt around his

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right hand. "The only place you're going, you arrogant

hussy, is Fersin's bed."

"Dorthan, please— " began Rahel.

"Quiet! She's your fault as much as anyone's. She should

have been spinning at home, not running out on the moors

hunting with the boys."

Paksenarrion's gray eyes glinted. "It's all right, Mother;

don't worry. He'll remember someday that he's the one

who sent me out with the flocks so often. Father, I'm

leaving. Let me pass."

"Over my dead body," he grunted.

"If need be — " Paksenarrion leaped for the old sword,

Kanas's sword, over the fireplace. As she lifted it from the

rack, the belt caught her shoulders with its first stroke.

Then she was facing Dorthan, sword in hand, with the

firelight behind her. The sword felt easy in her grip.

Startled, Dorthan jumped back, swinging the belt wildly

in her direction. Paksenarrion took her chance and ran for

the door, jerked it open, and was gone. Behind her came

his furious bellow, and questioning calls from her

brothers still working in the barns, but Paksenarrion did

not slow or turn until she came to the boundary stone of

her father's land. There she thrust her grandfather's sword

into the soil.

"I won't have him saying I stole it," she muttered to

herself. She turned for a last look at her home. Against

the dark bulk of the hill, she could see light at the open

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front door, and dark figures crossing and recrossing the

light. She could hear voices calling her name, then a deep

bellow from Dorthan, and all the shapes went in at the

door and shut the light in. She was alone, outside the

house, and she knew, as well as if she'd seen him do it,

that Dorthan had barred the door against her. She shook

herself. "It's what I wanted," she said aloud. "So now I'd

better go on with it."

The rest of that night she jogged and walked down the

well-worn track from her father's farm to Three Firs,

warmed by the thought of the coming adventure. She

went over her cousin's instructions time after time, trying

to remember everything he'd said about recruiting

sergeants and mercenary companies and training and

drill. In the first light of dawn she walked into Three Firs.

Only in the baker's house did she see a gleam of light

behind closed shutters, and a plume of smoke out the

chimney. She smelled no baking bread. She could not

wait until the first baking came out unless the recruiters

were still in Three Firs. She walked on to the

marketplace. Empty. Of course, they might not be up yet.

She looked in the public barn that served as an inn.

Empty. They had left. She drew water from the village

well, drank deeply, and started off again, this time on the

wider track that led to Rocky Ford — or so her cousin

had said; she'd never been beyond Three Firs.

As daylight came, she was able to make better time, but it

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was nearly noon when she came to the outskirts of Rocky

Ford. The rich smells of cooking food from the inns and

houses nearly made her sick. She pressed on, through

what seemed to her like crowds, to the market square in

the town's center. There she saw the booth that Jornoth

had told her to look for, draped in maroon and white silk,

with spears for cornerposts. She paused to catch her

breath and look at it. On either side, a man-at-arms with

breastplate, helmet, and sword stood guard. Inside was a

narrow table, with one stool before it, and a man seated

behind. Paksenarrion took a deep breath and walked

forward.

As she reached the booth, she realized that she was taller

than either of the men-at-arms. She waited for them to say

something, but they ignored her. She looked inside. Now

she could see that the man behind the table had gray hair,

cropped short, and a neatly trimmed mustache. When he

looked up at her, his eyes were a warm golden brown.

"This is a recruiting station for Duke Phelan's Company,"

he said as he met her gaze. "Were you looking for

someone?"

"No. I mean, yes. I mean, I was looking for you - for a

recruiting station, I mean." Paksenarrion reddened with

embarrassment.

"You?" The man stared a moment, then looked down

briefly. "You mean you wanted to join the Company?"

"Yes. My - my cousin said such companies accepted

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