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IV THE MEET AT LEAPING WATER
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Within five days, during which it rained and cleared, a fine long growing rain that left the world new washed and shining, the Meet of the Outliers was moved to Leaping Water.
This was the amphitheater of the terraced basin lying next above Deep Fern, and took its name from the long leap of the creek1 that came flashing down arch by arch from the high, treeless ridges2. Five leaps it took from Moon-Crest to the Basin, where it poured guttering3, in so steep a channel that the spray of it made a veil that shook and billowed with the force of its descending4 waters. It trailed out on the wind that drove continually, even on the stillest days, between the high wings of the mountain, and took the light as it traveled from east to west and played it 68through all its seven colored changes. It was like a great pulse in the valley, the throb5 and tremble of it, flushing and paling. The Basin was clear meadow land, well-flowered, close set by the creek, but opening well under the redwoods, with here some sunny space of shrubs6, and there stretching up into the middle region of white firs dozing8 on the steeps above the water.
It was here we began to learn about the Love-Left Ward9 which was the occasion of their coming together.
The very first I heard of it was from Evarra’s slim lad, Lianth, who, when he was sent to keep me company, would lie on the fern, propping10 his chin upon his hand, and sing to me in his reedy unsexed voice, of a maiden11 who had left loving for the sake of a great service to her tribe. Then plucking up the brown
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