Chapter eighteen
Wine from the Star LordsNow I must put out all my willpower, all the force of which I was capable. Now I must test the theories that I could in some small measure stand against the superhuman authority of the Everoinye.
If the Star Lords were in the act of swirling me up from my night’s sleep and intent on hurling me down all naked and unarmed into some fraught situation on some other part of Kregen, then I must do all I could to stop them. I needed to talk to them as I had, once or twice, done in the past. I was in no mood for more deeds of derring-do to further their mysterious purposes.
“Oh, no, Star Lords!” I bellowed up into the encompassing blueness that was the fantastic giant Scorpion. “Oh no! Not this time! Show yourselves—”
A wedge-shaped streak of viridian s
