Chapter eighteen“I’ll be three blinks of a leem’s eyes.” Naghan Raerdu spoke softly. Without further ado he went, and, being the Slippy, was gone like smoke.
Tobi had extinguished a lamp burning on its bracket against the wall so we stood half in shadow in the little alcove at the foot of the staircase. Those stairs led aloft to Nath the Clis’s apartments. Our decision to lay him by the heels within the palace had been forced on us by Naghan’s intelligence that the chief pallan once again feared for his life. He remained mewed up.
The two Deldars were not on duty but were kitted out for duty. Nath the Rumphious and Nath Feringhim brought the number of Naths in our party to three. Well, that is a familiar situation on Kregen.
The four Chuliks were — well, they were Chuliks. With time one
