Besides, Sparrowhawk has been teaching him sailing. He doesn't seem bothered by the lack of magic. But Arren is a more faithful, patient student than Ged was as a boy. Now Ged is the master, and keeps the Balance and the Equilibrium just as Ogion taught him, though he has not Ogion's quiet heart. Ogion would not turn the rain aside either, or cast spells to satisfy young Ged's impatience. This is an echo (Earthsea is full of echoes, repeats, cycles) of Ged's first few days apprenticed under Ogion, in A Wizard of Earthsea. Arren thought about this, and reflected that in the short time he had known him, the Archmage had done no magic at all. The second night out it rained, the rough, cold rain of March, but he said no spell to keep it off them. He sails Lookfar by hand, without magic or magewind. He tells Arren they will be going incognito as Uncle Hawk and his nephew, and practices his Enlad accent. Indeed he is openly enthusiastic about getting to go somewhere and do something.

I imagine it didn't see much use in the last five years while Sparrowhawk was Archmag. They are aboard Ged's famous ship Lookfar, which he has had since the end of A Wizard of Earthsea. On the morning of the spring equinox, Sparrowhawk and Arren set sail for Hort Town. I imagine I'll eventually need to change things up (there are only five chapters in The Other Wind and they're all super long) but for now I'm going to stubbornly stick to one chapter, one post. (The previous books' longest chapters topped out at sixteen pages.) I thought about splitting the write-up into two parts, but. Previously: Chapter Two, 'The Masters of Roke.' Chapter Three: Hort TownĪt 31 pages, 'Hort Town' is, by far, the longest chapter in the entire series so far. We are currently reading the third book, The Farthest Shore, and this post is for the third chapter, 'Hort Town.' If you're wondering what this is all about, check out the introduction post, which also contains links to every post in the series so far. Welcome back to the /r/ursulakleguin Earthsea Reread.

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