30 They rang a doorbell and a woman's voice
answered. "Who is it?"
31 "Lord's Guard," was the reply. "We'd like to ask you a few
questions."
32 There was silence for several minutes, then the door slid open,
revealing one of North's men. "She ran right into our arms," he
announced, "on the balcony. She sure wanted to get away! She bit me!"
33 The Medic rushed in and began tending the man's wound, while the
others went in. Two men held the woman, who was still struggling, and
when she saw Morn, she began to struggle even harder. "Stay away from
me! " she cried, "Stay away! Don't come near me! "
34 "Why did you have my mother killed?" Morn asked. You were my
Father's wife when my mother was brought here. She always said how good
you were to her, how you used to laugh when she told you Hashon legends
and you taught her Haven stories. She loved you, and never spoke a
cruel word about you. Yet you paid to have her killed. Why?"
35 "I was your Father's wife for thirty years," the woman began to
explain, "then, your mother stole him away from me, and he sent me
away. I gave him two sons, but he rejected them because they never made
Academy. Then, you came, and year after year all I heard whenever I
visited was how wise you were, how strong, how bold. And I knew you
would take the place my sons should have had. I grew to hate her for
having you.
36 Then, when you made Academy, I hired an assassin. When I heard it
was done, I was happy, but then every night, I began dreaming about the
times she and I had together, and sometimes, I cried. But I'm not sorry
...I'm really not sorry!" The woman began to weep and the two guards
let go of her. She stumbled to a chair and broke into deep sobbing.
37 "Now I understand," remarked Morn, "one of the things my mother’s
People say. 'You can run from those