Chapter 21Farnor’s homeward journey continued to be both quicker and easier than his outward one. But though he was more at ease with himself, many thoughts about the future disturbed him. Not least among these were the practicalities of what he was intending to do.
How should he confront Rannick? He couldn’t simply ride up to the castle and announce himself. Whatever power he might possess, he had learned nothing about either its nature or its use from the Forest, despite his original intentions, and he was loath to assume that it would suddenly manifest itself as need required.
And, mementoes of beating, climbing, and riding — the intermittent aches and pains in his body — reminded him that, power or no, he was not proof against fleshly distress. He could thus not sensibly oppose himse
