WordNet
Usage examples of "medai".
He heard their movings, their stirrings about the scene as if they and he were in different places, as if, divorced from the scene, he watched from elsewhere, leaving the flesh of Niun s’Intel, like that of Medai s’Intel, senseless and unparticipant.
But after the peace was announced, kel Medai evinced an increasing melancholy.
He had only heard the rites, had never done them, and he did not wish to shame himself or Medai by his ignorance.
They gathered up the litter, he and all who could find space to help, and passed within the doors of the edun, toward the Pana’drin, the Shrine, to present Medai at his homecoming, where he would have presented himself first if he had lived.
There had been no love between himself and Medai: the she’pan knew that well enough.
He had been a handsome youth, had Medai s’Intel, full of the life and the hope of the edun in brighter days.
But in the end Medai had been as useless to his kin-folk as he had always been.
He had hoped for peace with Medai, for a change in the affairs of the People.
He became sure that she had loved Medai, only daughter of an edun otherwise fading into old age, it was inevitable that she and Medai should once have seemed a natural pairing, kel’en and kel’e’en, in those days when she had also been of the Kel.
Tell her that she owes Medai better than a hole in the sand and that these old men cannot get him to Sil’athen without killing themselves in the effort.
She sent Melein to the Sen and Medai to the regul when she saw how things were drifting with them.
Then it approached the body of Medai and pawed at it with claws as long as a man’s hand—poisonous, the dewclaw possessing venom ducts, the casual swipe of them capable of disemboweling mri or regul.
It prodded at the body of Medai, as if in prelude to this, but it hesitated.
Then he cast himself on his face before the shrine and made the proper prayers to the several ancestor-gods of his caste for rest for the soul of Medai, with more sincerity than he had ever used on his cousin when he was living.
He would have wished to have spoken with his cousin, both of them men now, and not one only—to have learned of Medai the things Eddan could not tell him.