CHAPTER 31
Penrys waited for Vylkar on the raised steps of the Imperial Security building the following afternoon. She was back in her accustomed Zannib work clothing, all of her more formal attire having been destroyed, and the small bag clutched in her fist weighed more heavily to her than the three neck chains Gen Jongto had allotted to her from the heap of the dead in the underground level could account for.
She fingered her own chain nervously, exposed to public view again. Where is he?
Najud was off speaking with merchants, and he’d taken Munraz with him. She’d told him she had something to discuss with her old mentor, but hadn’t given him the details. He’d simply nodded and wished her a profitable afternoon, and a certain amount of guilt weighed upon her for not filling him in. T
