Voices

Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I thought everything would be changed, everybody would be ready for a great thing to happen, as I was. But nobody seemed ready for anything. Everything was just as always, people in the streets hurrying, not looking at one another, keeping out of trouble;Ald guards in blue cloaks swaggering at the corner of the marketplace;vendors in their stalls, children and old women bargaining and buying and creeping home on the byways. No tension, no excitement, nobody saying anything unusual. Only once I ...thought I heard somebody crossing the Customs Street bridge whistle a few notes of the tune of "Liberty." When Orrec and Chy set off for the Council House late in the afternoon they went on foot. They took Shetar, but not me. There was no reason to have a groom without a horse, and they were concerned that there might be danger. I was relieved. I didn't want to face Simme, because every time I thought of him my heart sank with shame.
But as soon as they were gone I knew I couldn't stay at home. I couldn't bear to sit in the house waiting.MoreLess Read More Read Less