（外文电子版资料）Tanya Huff - Be It Ever So Humble.pdf

file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry%20kruiswijk/Mijn%20d...menten/spaar/Tanya%20Huff%20-%20Be%20It%20Ever%20So%20Humble.txt Be It Ever So Humble by Tanya Huff So, got any dirt on this place? Magdelene asked the gold and black lizard who was sunning itself on a nearby rock. The lizard, looking more like a beautifully crafted piece of jewelry than a living creature, merely flicked its inner eyelid closed and pretended to be asleep. Children with rocks or nets it had to do something about. Young women in donkey carts who asked stupid questions could safely be ignored. Magdelene studied the little village nestled along the curve of its natural harbor and chewed reflectively on a strand of chestnut hair. It looked like a nice place, but, as much as she wanted to settle down, as tired as she was of constantly packing up and moving on, she knew better than to get her hopes up. In a dozen years of traveling, shed learned that the most jewel-like villages, in the most bucolic settings, often had the quaintest customs. Customs like welcoming wandering wizards with an axe, or attempting to convince wandering wizards to stay by outfitting them with manacles and chains, or by suggesting the tarring and feathering of wandering wizards with no better reason that the small matter of a straying husband or two. For the most part, Magdelene had found these customs no more than a minor inconvenience, although, had she known the man was married, she would never have suggested they ... She grinned at the memory. Hed proven a lot more flexible than shed anticipated. Well, Hsak? She spit out the hair and glanced back at the large mirror propped up behind the seat of the cart. Shall we check it out? Hsak, trapped in the mirror, made no answer. Magdelene wasnt entirely certain the demon was aware of what went on outside his prison, but, traveling alone, shed fallen into the habit of talking to him and figured, just in case he ever got out, it c