Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Outer Seas

At this time, the port was out of sight, and the eyes traced on "Zhan Yuan" were soaked by the waves, and they fixed their eyes on the increasingly wide and desolate ocean.After two days and two nights, the two companions crossed the sea from Yifeixu Island to Soders Island, a hundred-mile voyage full of bad weather and adverse sea winds.They stopped at the port of Soders Island, only to fill the leather water bag with water, and bought a tar-smeared sail to cover and protect the sails from the sea and rain in this undecked ship. .They didn't prepare beforehand, because generally speaking, wizards take care of such small details of life by spells, which are the most common and minimal spells.Indeed, with a little magic, the sea water can be desalinated, saving the trouble of carrying fresh water.But Ged, who seemed most reluctant to use the spell, or to let Fetch use it, said:

"It would be best if we didn't." His friend didn't ask much, and didn't argue, because when the sea wind began to fill the sails, both of them felt the heavy pressure of a winter wind.Ports, harbours, tranquility, safety, these were all behind them, and they had turned and gone another way, everything was dangerous, every action had meaning.On this waterway they sailed forward, even reciting the most basic mantra may change the fate and affect the balance of mass and luck: because they are heading towards the very center of "balance", heading for the intersection of light and darkness .One who travels under such a burden does not chant mantras at will.

Sailing again from Soders Island, around the coast of the island, the white wilderness submerged into the misty mountains.Ged turned the ship again to the south, and now they were in waters where the great merchants of the Archipelago had never been, that is, the outer reaches of the Borderlands. Fei Qu didn't ask about the route, he knew that Ged didn't choose the route, but went in the necessary direction.The Isle of Sodes dwindled and dimmed behind them, and the waves lapped under the bow of the ship, and the water was all around the ship, the vast expanse of blue waves, water and sky.Ged asked, "What islands lie ahead of this route?"

"There is no other land directly south of Sodes Island. If you sail far southeast, you can still come across scattered small islands: Peramo, Kone, Gosk, and Estovil, also known as 'The End'. Then Going down, it is the 'open sea'." "Southwest feet?" "The Lolomeni Island is also one of our eastern islands. There are some small islands nearby, and there are some islands in the south: Ruth, Toum, and the ear island that no one will go to. " "We might go," said Ged, frowning. "I hope not," Fei Que said, "everyone says it's disgusting, and the island is full of bones and monsters. Sailors say that in the sea next to Er Island and Yuanshou Island, you can see things that you can't see elsewhere. stars, none of which have yet been named.

" "Well, one of the sailors on the ship that took me to Roke Island once mentioned this. He also told of a kind of 'raftman' in the far south who came to land only once a year. To cut the logs and build the rafts, and the rest of the day they drift with the tides of the ocean, with no land in sight. I should like to see the swarms of the raftmen." "I don't want to," Fei Qu said with a smile, "I just want land and land people: let the sea sleep on its bed, and I sleep on mine." "I wish I could see all the cities of the Archipelago," said Ged, with the sail in hand, looking out at the vast sea, "like the Isle of Havnor, the center of the world, Oia, the birthplace of myth, and the fountain of Way. Chengxulisi, all the cities and big islands, and the strange small towns on the small islands in the outer border area, I also want to see. I also want to sail to the westernmost Longju Islets, or sail north into the floating ice area and reach Haujian Island. Some say that Haujian Island alone is bigger than all the islands in the Archipelago put together: but others say it's just a mixture of reefs, rocks, and ice floes. No one knows. I I'd love to see the whales in the northern seas...but I can't. I have to go where I'm supposed to go, away from all the bright shores. I was too impatient before, and now I don't have time. I hope The sun, the city, and the faraway land are all traded for a bit of power, a shadow, and darkness." So Ged, like a born wizard, compiled his fear and regret into a poem, That short dirge, half uttered, half sung, was composed not only for himself, but his friends responded by taking words from the "Deeds of Eriabah": "Oh, may I see the bright furnace again. Fire, the White Tower of Havnor..."

In this way, they followed the narrow channel and crossed the vast and uninhabited sea.Most of what I saw that day was flocks of whitebait swimming south, not a single dolphin jumped, and no seagulls, great puffins, or terns flew through the gray sky.When the east was turning dark and the west was turning red, Fei Chu took out the food and divided it equally, and said, "This is the last ale. I want to respect the one who thought of putting the barrel of wine for two thirsty men in the cold winter." The person on board: my sister Yarou." When Ged heard this, he immediately put aside his gloomy thoughts and eyes staring at the sea, and sincerely saluted Yarou with wine, perhaps even more sincerely than Fei Que.Thinking of Yarou, Ged's mind felt her sweetness, bright and childish.She was different from anyone he had ever known. (Did Ged know any maiden? But it never occurred to him.) "She was like a little fish, a little carp, swimming in a clear stream," said Ged, "seemingly defenseless, But no one can catch her."

Fetch heard this, and looked at Ged with a smile. "You are a born mage," he said, "Her real name is Kesi. "Kasi" means "carp" in the mantra, and Ged I know, so it pleased him. But after a while Ged whispered, "Perhaps you shouldn't tell me her real name. " Fei Que didn't speak it lightly, so he replied: "Telling you her name is as safe as telling you my name. Besides, you already know it before I tell you..." The west side turns from red to light gray, and then from gray to black. The sea and sky are already pitch black.Ged stretched out, wrapped in a woolen and woolen cloak, and slept in the bottom of the boat.Fei Qu held the sail rope in his hand, and softly sang the lines from "Inlad's Friendship".The poem tells the story of how the mage Mored, known as "Pure White" in the world, steered the long boat without oars, arrived at Solia Island, and met Ye Furuan in the cherry orchard in spring.Before the story had reached its tragic end, Ged fell asleep.Later it tells about their love, Morad's death, Enlad's destruction, and the huge and harsh waves that flooded the cherry orchards on Solia Island.It was nearly midnight when Ged woke up to watch, and Fatty went to sleep.The boat raced across the rough sea, avoiding the strong wind that blew into the sails, and sailed through the night by itself.But the sky full of dark clouds has gradually cleared up, and before dawn, a round of pale moon has already radiated faint light among the brown clouds.

"The moon is gradually eclipsing." Fei Qu woke up at dawn and murmured; after a while, the cold wind stopped.Ged looked up at the white semicircle above the fading water to the east, but said nothing.The first new moon after the winter solstice is called "off moon", which is opposite to the summer full moon festival and long dance festival.The rest of the moon is unlucky for travelers and sick people; children are not given their real names on this day; no heroic deeds are sung, swords are not sharpened, mouths are not sharpened, and oaths are not sworn.This is the dark axis day of the year, and everything is inappropriate.

Three days after sailing away from Soders Island, they followed seabirds and drifting objects all the way to Peramo Island. Pellamo is a small island rising high in the gray and high waves. But in their own unique way, even Fetch sounds weird.The two young men went ashore from Pellamo in search of fresh water, and took a break from the sea.At first they were well received, with surprise and commotion.There used to be a sorcerer in the chief town of the island, but he went mad, and would only say that a serpent was eating the foundations of Peramo, so that the island would soon be cut off from the berths, and drift like a ship across the ocean to edge of the world.At first, the sorcerer received the two young wizards hospitablely, but when he talked about the big snake, he gradually squinted at Ged suspiciously; later he even taunted him and Fetch in the street, calling them spies and the sea serpents. servant.Afterwards, the islanders also began to look at each other with cold eyes and bad words. After all, although the warlocks had gone crazy, they were still their warlocks.So Ged and Fetch did not stay long, but set off before dark, heading south and east.

During the voyage, neither day nor night, Ged spoke of the shadow, nor did he mention the quest directly.As for the question Fetch asked, the closest thing to it was (asked when their course was getting farther and farther away from the familiar islands of the Earth Sea): "Are you sure?" To this question, Ged only answered: "Can iron determine where the magnet is?" Fei Qu nodded, and the two continued on their way without saying much.Occasionally, however, they spoke of the techniques and strategies used by the ancient mages, thus uncovering the hidden names of pernicious powers and beings: how Nirango of Parn Isle eavesdropped on the gossip of dragons and learned the name of the black mage; How Rhett saw the enemy's name written in the dust by raindrops on the battlefield of Enlad Island.They also spoke of seeking, summoning spirits, and far more "proper questions" that only a master of form and meaning at Roke could ask.But Ged often whispered at the end: "To hear, be silent..." These were the words Ogion had told him on Mount Gont one autumn long ago.Ged fell silent and brooding after he had finished speaking, staring hour after hour at Damei ahead of the course.Sometimes it seemed to Fetch that his friend had crossed the waves and miles and gray days to come and had seen what they were looking for and seen the dark end of the journey.

They sailed in bad weather between Kouney Island and Gosk Island, and in the rain and mist they couldn't see the two islets. They didn't know they had passed until the next day, because they saw the cliffs on the islets ahead. A large flock of seagulls hovered above, and their howling could be heard from the distant sea.Fetch said: "Judging from the appearance, it must be Estoway Island, the 'End'. The east and south sides of this island are empty on the map." "But the islanders may know farther lands," answered Ged. Ged's tone was disturbed, and Fei Chuanai asked, "Why do you say that?" Ged's answer to this question was still hesitant and weird. "It's not there," he stared at Estoví ahead of him, seeing through, through, through the island. "Not there. Not at sea. Not at sea, on land. Which land? Before the source of the open sea, beyond the origin, after the gate of the sun..." After speaking, Ged fell silent.When he spoke again, his voice returned to normal, as if he had just escaped a spell or vision, and he could not remember it clearly. Estorve's port is at the mouth of a river on the north shore of the island, flanked by high, jagged rocks.The houses in the town all face north and west, which seems to indicate that although the island is located in a remote place, its face is always turned to the sea and to humans. In the season when no ships dared to operate on the nearby sea, the arrival of strangers in Estor naturally caused commotion and panic.The women all stayed in the huts built with branches, watching what was going on outside the door; the children hid behind the women's skirts.When the two strangers came up from the shore, the women retreated in fear into the shadows of the hut.Men in rags, barely able to withstand the cold, surrounded Fetch and Ged tightly, each holding a stone hatchet or shell dagger.But once the fear subsided, they greeted the two strangers warmly and asked questions.Few ships came to their islands, even from Sodes and Lolomeni.They had nothing to trade for bronze or fine vessels, not even wood.Their boats are light boats made of reeds, and it is a brave sailor who can go to Gosk or Koney Island in such a boat.Here they live alone, on the fringes of maps.They had neither witches nor magic soil, and they didn't seem to recognize the walking sticks that symbolized the identities of the two young wizards. They admired the two witch sticks only because they were made of such a precious material as wood.Their chief, or lord, was very old, and he was the only one in the whole island who had ever seen a man born in the Archipelago.So Ged was a wonder to them, and the men went home and brought their sons to see the Islander, that they might remember him when they were old.They had never heard of Gont, but of Havnor and Ea, and mistook Ged for the lord of Havnor.Ged did his best to answer questions about the White City, which he had not even seen; but towards evening he began to restless, and waited until Otsuka sat crowded round the fire-pit in the lodging, with what little fuel he had, sheep dung and hay bales. In the stinky warmth from the burning, he finally asked the villagers: "What is to the east of your island?" Everyone was silent, some grinned, and some looked dignified. The old island owner replied: "Ocean." "There is no land in the past?" "This is the 'Endland'. There is no other land in the past, only sea water extending to the end of the world." "Papa, these two are wise men," said a younger man. "They're sailors, navigators, and maybe they know lands we don't." "There is no land to the east of this land," said the old man, who looked at Ged a long time and said nothing to him. The two partners slept in a smoky and warm dormitory that night.Before dawn Ged shook his friend awake, and whispered, "Estero, get up. We can't stay here, we must go." "Why are you leaving so fast?" Fei Qu asked sleepily. "No, it's too late. I'm following too slowly. It has found a way to escape me, and it will kill me. It must not escape. No matter how far, I must follow him. If I lose track I'll be lost too." "Where are we going to follow?" "East, quick. I've filled my waterskin." When the two left the dormitory, none of the villagers had woken up, only a baby cried for a while in the darkness of a hut, and then fell silent again.Under the dim starlight, the two found their way down to the mouth of the stream, untied the "Zhanyuan" fastened in the rock pile, and pushed into the dark water.So, before the sun rose on the first day of the rest month, they set off from Estoway Island and sailed eastward into the open sea. The sky was clear and cloudless that day.The cold natural wind blows from the northeast in gusts, but Ged has already raised the spell wind, and this is the first time he has used spells since he left Teshima.They sped eastward.The sun shines on the waves, and the speed of the boat creates fog and waves, and they can feel the boat shivering with the lapping waves.But the ship lived up to its builder's promises, marched forward, and responded to the spellwind as honestly as any spellcrafted ship on Roke. Ged did not speak at all that morning, but chanted spells to renew the spell winds and keep the sails strong.Fei Qu stayed at the stern to catch up on sleep, although he didn't sleep well.At noon, they eat.Ged distributed the food sparingly, which was obvious, and the two munched on salt fish and wheat, neither of them said anything. All afternoon, they plowed east through the waves without turning or slowing at all.On one occasion Ged broke his silence by saying: "Some think that the world beyond the Outer Reach is all landless seas. But others imagine that on the other side of the world there are other archipelagos, or other lands as yet undiscovered. vast lands. Which side do you side with?" "At this point," said Fetch, "I agree that there is only one side of the world; if you sail too far, that person will fall over the edge." Ged did not laugh, for he had lost all his joy. "Who knows what's going to happen there? It won't be people like us who keep guarding our shores and beaches." "There have been people who have sought answers, but have not returned. And no ships have come from lands we don't know." Ged made no answer. All day and all night the strong spellwinds carried them over the great waves and eastward.Ged watched from dusk till dawn, for the force that drew or drove him was greater by night.He kept looking ahead, though on moonless nights his eyes, like those painted on either side of the prow, could see nothing.When dawn broke, his dark face was pale with fatigue, and he was so cold that he could hardly stretch his body to rest.He said weakly to Fei Que: "Esthero, the magic wind keeps blowing from west to east." After speaking, he fell asleep. The sun did not rise, and soon, the rain slanted against the bow from the northeast.It wasn't a storm, it was just the long cold wind and rain of winter.After a while, everything in the open boat was soaked, even with the tar canvas cover they bought.Fetch felt as if he were soaked to the bone; Ged shivered in sleep.The violent wind was blowing continuously with the rain. Based on his sympathy for his friends, or perhaps for himself, Fei Qu tried to divert the wind direction a little bit, but even though he obeyed Ged's will and could maintain a strong and steady spell wind, he The weather spell is very weak in the sea so far from the land, and the wind in the open sea does not obey his spell. Seeing this, a fear crept into Fetch's heart, and he began to wonder, if he and Ged continued to stay far away from the lands inhabited by humans, how much magical power would they have left?That night Ged kept watch again, and kept the ships eastward all night.At daybreak, the natural wind weakens for some reason, and the sun shines intermittently; but the turbulent waves are so high that "Zhanyuan" has to tilt, climb up the hill-like waves, hang on the top of the mountain, and then suddenly drop down , The next wave comes and climbs up, and the next wave, and the next wave, there is no end. That evening, Fei Qu spoke after a long silence. "My friend," said he, "on one occasion you seemed to say with certainty that we would at last reach land. I do not doubt your foresight, but in the circumstances it seems likely that it was a pretense which you followed A deception created by something that lures you to advance to an ocean that ordinary people cannot navigate. Because our strength may change and weaken when we enter strange and strange seas, but the shadow will not be tired, hungry, or drowned. .” They sat side by side on the beam, but Ged seemed to be looking at Fetch from afar, across the abyss.His eyes were anxious and he answered rather slowly. Finally he said, "Esthero, we're very close." Hearing what Ged said, Fetch realized that this was the case, and couldn't help being afraid.But he put a hand on Ged's shoulder, and said, "Well, that's all right, that's all right." That night Ged was still in charge, for he could not sleep in the dark, and on the third morning he still would not sleep.They were still speeding across the sea, and Fetch was amazed that Ged's strength could actually manipulate the powerful magic wind hour after hour, because in this open sea, he only felt that his strength was completely weakened and he couldn't control it.They went on, as if even Fetch had come to think that Ged's words would come true, and they were going beyond the source of the sea, east behind the gates of daylight.Ged kept going forward in the boat, always looking ahead.It's just that he's not looking at the ocean now—or rather, it's not the ocean that Fei Qu saw, the waves rushing straight to the sky.In Ged's eyes, the vast sea and sky were covered by a layer of dark phantom, and the darkness kept expanding, and the covering kept getting thicker.Fei Qu couldn't see this scene at all, only when he looked at his friend's face, he could see the darkness for a moment.They keep going, keep going.Although the same wind carries the two people in the same boat, it seems that Fetch is taking advantage of the natural wind to go east, while Ged has entered alone into a realm where there is no east and west, where the sun rises and sets, and the stars rise and sink. Suddenly Ged rose to his feet in the prow and spoke aloud, and the sorcerous wind died away. "Zhanyuan" loses its direction of sailing, just like a plank, it is lifted high and then falls on the surging waves.Although the natural wind was still blowing strongly from the north, the sails were slack and there was no movement.The boat hangs over the waves and is rocked by the large slow swings of the waves, but is not heading in any direction. "Lower the sails," said Ged, and Fetch did so quickly.Ged himself took his oars, put them in their wells, and bowed and rowed. Fei Qu looked around, only to see huge waves sweeping the sky and earth, and he didn't understand why he had to paddle forward now.But he waited quietly, and in a short time he noticed that the natural wind was gradually dying down, the swell was gradually lessening, and the boat heaving less and less, until at last the sea was almost still, and the boat seemed to be moving under Ged's powerful oars. , the water surface is almost still, just like in Luzha Aogu.Though Fetch could not see what Ged saw, he kept looking over Ged's shoulder between the gaps in Ged's oars, wondering what was in front of the boat.Under the still stars, although Fei Qu couldn't see the dark slopes, he used his wizard's eyes to gradually see around the ship, there was a darkness expanding in the wave depression, and he also saw that the huge waves were choked by the sand, getting bigger and bigger. slow. Turning the open sea into something like land, if this is illusion magic, it is really amazing and unbelievable.Fei Qu worked hard to concentrate his intelligence and courage, and began to perform the revealing technique. Between each slow-syllable word, he paid attention to whether this strange, dry and shallow illusion of the vast ocean changed or wavered.But nothing has changed!Although the revealing spell only reveals the truth to the sight, it does not affect the magic at work; but perhaps the spell has no effect here.Or maybe there are no illusions at all, but they have reached the end of the world!Ged paid no attention to this, and rowed more and more slowly, looking back, choosing his course carefully among the channels, reefs, and sandbars he could see.Under the drag of the keel, the hull also vibrated.Under the keel is the vast and deep sea, but they hit the rocks.Ged drew the oars in the oarlocks, and the click sounded ghastly, for there was no other sound around.All the sounds of the sea, wind, wood, and sails are far away, lost in a vast and profound silence that may never be broken.The ships stand still; there is not a breath of wind; the sea has turned to grains of sand, and the dark sand is still; all things are fixed under the dark sky, on the dry and unreal ground.As far as the eye can see, the ground continues to extend in all directions, and finally gathers in the darkness around the ship. Ged rose to his feet, and with his wand in his hand, he crossed lightly over the side of the boat.Fetch thought he would see Ged fall and sink into the sea that must have been hidden behind the dry and dim veil, which hid the water, the sky, and the light, but he was sure that there was the sea behind.But the sea was no more, and Ged left the ship on foot, and the dark sand left footprints where he walked and whispered under his feet. Ged's wand began to glow, not a false light, but a clear white light, and soon became so bright that Ged's fingers holding the dazzling staff were also red. He strode forward, away from the ship, but without direction.There is no direction here, no east, west, north, south, only forward and away. In the eyes of Fei Qu, who was watching from behind, the light carried by Ged was like a big star slowly passing through the darkness, and the surrounding darkness gradually became thicker and denser.Ged saw it too.With the help of the light, he always looked forward.Presently he saw a dark figure approaching him across the sand, at the blurred edge of the light. At first it had no shape, but as it approached, it gradually took on the shape of a human.It appeared to be an old man, pale and stern, coming towards Ged.But though Ged saw a vague resemblance to his father the coppersmith, he could also see that the figure was a young man, not an old man.It was Jasper, haughty, handsome, with a young face, a gray cloak with silver buckles, and a long, stiff step.His resentful expression stared straight at Ged through the dark, pervasive air.Ged did not stop, but slowed down.Ged raised his wand higher as he moved forward.The witch's staff became brighter, and under the light of the staff, Jasper's appearance changed from the approaching figure to that of Peveri.But Peavery's face was swollen and pale, like a drowning man, and a hand was stretched out strangely, as if beckoning.Although the distance between the two was only a few yards, Ged still did not stop, and continued to move forward.At this time, the whole thing facing him changes, like spreading huge thin wings, stretching, flipping, expanding, and shrinking to both sides.For a moment Ged saw from it the white face of Skirwoll, then a pair of cloudy staring eyes, and then suddenly a horrible face he did not know, whether it was a man or a monster, with turned upturned eyes. Lips and eyes, the eyes return like pits in the dark hollow. Seeing this, Ged exalted the witch.The light of the witch staff is too bright to bear, shining white and bright light, enough to approach and dig loose the oldest darkness.In this light, all figures were free from what was coming toward Ged.The thing then shrunk and turned black, and scrambled across the sand on short, four-clawed feet.But it moved on toward Ged, and held up a great shapeless nose, without lips, ears, or eyes.When the nose, lips, eyes and ears were all gathered together, under the white magic light of the witch staff, it turned into a mass of pitch black, struggling to stand upright.In the silence, people and shadows meet face to face.Both sides stopped. Ged broke the eternal silence, calling out the name of the shadow loudly and clearly; at the same time, the shadow without a tongue said the same name: "Ged." The two voices joined together. Ged stretched out his hands, lowered his wand, and embraced his shadow, the black self that stretched toward him.Light and darkness meet, meet, and become one. Far away on the sand, Fetch watched fearfully through the dim twilight, and it seemed to him that Ged was defeated, for he saw the clear light fading and fading.At this moment, his heart was full of anger and disappointment, and he immediately jumped on the sand to help his friend, or die with him.He ran toward the tiny fading twilight in the empty twilight of dry land.But as soon as he ran, the sand suddenly collapsed under his feet, and he seemed to be struggling in quicksand, forging ahead in heavy water, until there was a loud bang, the bright sunlight, the severe cold of winter, and the bitter saltiness of sea water returned. , the world was restored, and he was also rolling in the turbulent, real, flowing sea water. Not far away, the boat was rocking on the gray waves, and there was nothing inside.Fei Qu saw that there was nothing else on the surface of the water, and the splash of the turbulent waves seeped into his eyes, covering his sight.He was not a good swimmer, so he struggled back to the side of the boat with all his strength and climbed into the boat.In addition to coughing, he also managed to wipe the sea water from his hair.He looked around desperately, not knowing which direction to look.At last he saw something dark in the waves, far away in the sand--now rough water.He sprang to the oars and rowed hard toward his friend, then took Ged by both arms and pulled him aboard. Ged looked dazed, his eyes glazed over as if he saw nothing, but there was no visible wound on his body.His black yew wand was all tarnished, but he still held it tightly in his right hand, refusing to let go.He was exhausted, his body was drenched and trembling, he didn't say a word, he just went to stand against the mast, curled up and lay down without looking at Fei Tzu.Fei Qu raised the sails and turned the boat to face the northeast wind.Just ahead of the course, the sky darkened at sunset, the bay glowed azure, the crescent moon shone among the clouds, and Ged saw things of the world again.The curved ivory crescent moon reflected the sun's rays, illuminating the dark ocean. Ged lifted his face and gazed at the far bright crescent moon in the western sky. He stared at it for a long time, then stood up straight, clasping his wand with both hands like a warrior holding a sword.He looked at the sky, the sea, the full brown sail above his head, and his friend's eyelids. "Estero," he said, "look, it's done, it's over." He laughed. "The wound is healed," he said: "I'm whole now, I'm free." After speaking, he bowed and buried his lids in his arms, crying like a little boy. Up to that moment Fetch had been watching Ged with apprehension, for he did not know what had happened on the shadowy sand.He didn't know if it was Ged who was in the boat with him, so for hours he kept his hand on the anchor, ready to cut through the planks of the ship, sinking the ship on the way, and not bringing back the evil to any port in Earthsea, for he feared that something evil might have taken Ged's look and form.At this time, he looked at his friend and heard him speak, and his doubts were all gone.And he came to understand the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won, but was only calling Sombra by his own name, thereby making himself whole, a human being: a man who knew the whole of his true self, apart from himself. , he cannot use or possess without any power, and therefore he lives only for life, never for destruction, pain, hatred or darkness.In the oldest poem "Oia Creation Song", it is said: "Only silence gives birth to words, only darkness becomes light, only death brings rebirth: the eagle soars through the void, and the iron shines brightly." Fei Que maintained The ship sailed west, singing the song across the sky, and the winter wind from the open sea blew behind them both, but the song raced ahead of them. They sailed for eight days when they left, and eight days when they returned, before they saw land for the first time.Several times during this time they had to use their spells to sweeten the water and fill their waterskins; Can't understand spells.When there was nothing left to eat but a few slivers of bacon, Ged remembered that when he had stolen the cake from the oven, Yarou had said that when he starved at sea he would regret having stolen it.But despite his hunger, the memory made him happy.For she had also said that Ged would come home again with her brother. The magic wind only carried them east for three days, but it took them sixteen days to travel west and return to the grave.Never had men sailed out to the open sea and back in open fishing boats during the winter months like Estero and Ged, two young wizards.They did not encounter a storm on their return journey, but, using the compass and the star of Torberen steadily, they took a straight course slightly northerly than they had gone.Therefore, they did not come back from Estove, but passed through the islands of Far Toli and Sinago, which were in the open sea at the southernmost point of Goupixu Island, without seeing them. The first land to rise.Above the waves they saw rocky cliffs rising like fortresses, seabirds flying on the spray, and the iron smoke of a small village drifting blue in the wind. From there back to Yifeixu Island, the voyage is not far.They sailed into the harbor of Ismay in the quiet evening before the snow fell, tied up the boat "Looking Far", which took them to the coast of the land of death and back, and walked through the narrow streets to the wizard's house.When they stepped into the firelight and warmth under the eaves, their mood was very light, and Yarou ran out to meet them, crying happily.