Chapter sixteen
Magero’s gold piece for his little PalineMost of the next day Cranchar spent with his women closeted in the chambers of the tower reserved for his use. His men rampaged within this tower, and the noise broke over the walls and roofs of the fortress like surf driven before a gale. Slaves cleared up the refectory and put the place to rights before the kovneva returned.
Of the other three towers built of stone, one contained Nyleen’s quarters and the small rooms of her handmaids and slaves. The next contained her fighting women bodyguards. The last tower’s contents were unknown to Delia.
She felt humiliated, dirtied, her pride grossly affronted.
She tried to tell herself these were irrational reactions. They left her alone that next day to recover. This was, she surmised v
