Chapter sixteen

The city guards came for me as Luz and Walig rose into a limpid Kregen sky.

Well, of course!

San Hargon’s temper was such that he wouldn’t lie down under the insult, the assault and battery, I’d done him. I did not doubt the moment he recovered his senses he was raving for his people, calling out the city wardens, going to the queen if necessary, organizing my arrest, imprisonment, trial and punishment. That punishment would be death.

I went over the back wall as the guards came in the front door. Llodi shouted: “I didn’t warn you so you could go by yourself. Wait for me!”

“No, Llodi. You stick by Mevancy.”

“We-ell, by Lohrhiang of the Straight Path! All right!”

So, off I went, haring out into a new day in a city that would buzz with the hue and cry for my hide.

The good fol……