LOL!! You don't have too! Just finished it last night. Awesome!! Kalessin is Segoy, (which I kind of expected), and Tehanu, oh how special she is. Can't wait to get The Other Wind now.
Quote:The dragon turned its enormous, rust-dark head to watch them with both eyes. The nostril pits, big as kettles, were bright with fire, and wisps of smoke curled from them. The heat of the dragon's body beat through the cold sea wind.
"Tehanu," the dragon said.
The child turned to look at it.
"Kalessin," she said.
Then Ged, who had remained kneeling, stood up, though shakily, catching Tenar's arm to steady himself. He laughed. "Now I know who called thee, Eldest!" he said.
"I did," the child said. "I did not know what else to do, Segoy."
She still looked at the dragon, and she spoke in the language of the dragons, the words of the Making.
"It was well, child," the dragon said. "I have sought thee long."
"Shall we go there now?" the child asked. "Where the others are, on the other wind?"
"Would you leave these?"
"No," said the child. "Can they not come?"
"They cannot come. Their life is here."
"I will stay with them," she said, with a little catch of breath.
Kalessin turned aside to give that immense furnance-blast of laughter or contempt or delight or anger--"Hah!" Then, looking again at the child, "It is well. Thou hast work to do here."
"I know." the child said.
"I will come back for thee," Kalessin said, "in time." And, to Ged and Tenar, "I give you my child, as you will give me yours."
"In time," Tenar said.
Brought tears to my eyes. Awesome, just awesome... *********
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