Chapter twoMadness hovered close. The Star Lords had promised! Why didn’t they send down their phantom blue Scorpion as they had done so many times and snatch me up, to return me to Taranjin so that I might take all I loved in two worlds from those devilish slaving Katakis? Why?
“What is the matter with you, man?”
“What?”
“I said, what is the matter with you, man. You look awful.”
The scene around me swam back into focus. No longer were my eyes filled with the excruciating vision of Delia being carried off by Whiptails. Mul-lu-Manting was giving me that same peculiar stare, at once a look of questioning, of arrogant demands that I did not go sick on her, and of a smidgen — I believe — of genuine concern.
“It’s all right.”
“Well, by Lhun, buck your ideas up. We have a way to march yet
