Chapter thirteen
Princess Thefi and Lobur the DaggerThere is a venerable saying on Kregen, attributed to various sources, among whom scholars squabble most fiercely over the competing claims of Nalgre ti Liancesmot, a long-dead playwright, and San Blarnoi, a possibly mythical figure or consortium of wise men of the past, which runs: “When you look too long upon the face of a leem you may grow a leem’s tail.”
As I stowed the flier in a patch of woods and started out to walk into King Telmont’s camp, I recalled this saying, and its meaning. Typically Kregan is that modifier, “May.” If you take that ferocious eight-legged hunting beast, the leem, as a symbol for terror and horrific evil, then Kregans do not say if you fight against monsters or devils you will turn into a monster or a devil.
