Differences in The Wandering Inn 7.34 C

• “One thousand lives.
• We sacrificed one thousand of Rhir’s children for a hundred ‘heroes’.
• “Ten thousand lives.
• We sacrificed ten thousand of Rhir’s children for a hundred ‘heroes’.
• No more than children in their own way,

• or the spell was never perfect.
• It is clear to me now that the thousand lives produced a thousand…
• It is clear to me now that the ten thousand lives produced a thousand…
• children from Earth.

• Yes,
• I believe a thousand came.”
• I believe a thousand came.
• We would notice if ten times that number had.”
• “So a tenth were given to Rhir.
• A waste of life,
• And it was a tenth again of what was spent.
• A hundreth was a waste of life,
• or so we felt.

• than nothing at all.
• I could not bear to spend a thousand lives of Rhir’s children again.
• I could not bear to spend ten thousand lives of Rhir’s children again.
• I—I have sacrificed my life in battle against the great foe.

• concern we share.
• It is our grief over the sacrifice of a thousand of Rhir’s children.”
• It is our grief over the sacrifice of so many of Rhir’s children.”

• And this time…
• ten thousand lives.
• a hundred thousand lives.
• For even a thousand heroes,

• were taken,
• even ten thousand would not slow the children born this year.
• even a hundred thousand would not slow the children born this year overduly.
• But it need not come to that.”