Chapter fourteen
How Rees and Chido assisted the Star LordsChido said, “Y’know, old feller, Wees ain’t half cut up about last night.”
“Did he roar?”
“By Krun! He roared like a chunkrah with hoofache!”
“Let us go and take the Baths of the Nine.”
So we went to the best establishment in the Sacred Quarter. The Baths of the Nine are extraordinarily decadent and luxurious in Ruathytu, as you may imagine, and we steamed and soaked. We found Rees moodily stretched on a slab with a Numim girl carefully brushing his glorious golden fur.
“Huh,” he said when he saw us. “You apims and your naked skins! Oil and strigils! Barbarous!”
So we imagined he was back to form, which was a relief.
“Anyway, Hamun!” he bellowed. “Who was that Havil-forsaken man?”
“I have no idea,” I said. “He cleared off
