We have appreciated this scene before. Emerging from the improvised hospital outside Gray, Tabitha Falkayn stands, in a murmuring, livewell-scented wind, atop a hill of emerald susin and Avalonian flowers above the gardened city and glittering Bay. We have seen Falkayn Bay, named after Tabitha's ancestor, the Founder of Avalon, often enough that it has become a familiar background setting and we particularly appreciate these concluding scenes set on both Avalon and Esperance.
Arinnian's closing speech to Tabitha celebrates Poul Anderson's twin values of freedom and diversity.
"Snowpeaks flamed. The sun stood up in a shout of light.
"High is heaven and holy." (XIX, p. 662)
Eyath flies home to Stormgate which is where we find Hloch perched on the peak of Mount Anrovil in the Weathermother when he introduces the following volume of Anderson's Technic History, The Earth Book Of Stormgate.
Fair winds forever.
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