???Let the Hero???s name be Jack or Buck or Dan, one of those names that fall so strangely on our tongues, and let him be tall and pale and silent, except when he sings the songs of his people to the moons, and let him be a slayer of beasts, a master of the glain and of the double adjar.??? The Child-Empress clapped her hands, first two and then four, rapidly until they sounded like pebbles fallin