Chapter six
Of the Scorpion and the Ring of Destiny“And you believe this ring will solve all your problems, kovneva?”
“I am sure it will! I have been assured, personally assured, that the ring will restore all.”
We led our mounts along the forest trails. I had ridden in, not without a few quaint comments on the benhoff, and found the kovneva and her party. Larghos had taken his rapier back, and his face was a study. In the dead radvakka’s pouch I had found food, crude fare, rough bread and hunks of odoriferous cheese, and had wolfed it all down. Now we walked circumspectly through the forest to Thiurdsmot, a sizable town, larger than Cansinsax.
There we would find other regiments of the Hamalian army — and the kovneva’s comments on the conduct of the Hamalese curdled the air. She revil
