Chapter 5, Rejoining, Pages 224 - 247 Summary

In the second and last part of Chapter Five, Rejoining, we find Alder beginning to drift into a trance as the others talk of the great matters. He feels that he travels through the forest, by Roke Knoll and takes a forgotten path that leads to the low wall of stones and the Lands of the Dead.

Meanwhile the High King, Lebannen asks Seserakh to tell her story of the Kargad lands; that once there was an agreement between all of the peoples of the world; that the dragons would choose the wind and their freedom, and that the humans would choose the yoke, and all the skill of their hands, the things they could make and have ownership over them. Azver the Patterner picks up the tale, that this ancient agreement was broken when the middle...