Chapter eightThe guard slammed the door shut at my back and as I walked into San Chandro’s rooms the Repositer looked up and said: “Hai, Drajak! You are just the man. Come and join me in the second breakfast. There are schemes afoot.”
As we ate he told me that he wanted to know how deeply Yango and Ranal Shang-Li-Po had been involved with the two dead Repositers, Caran and Hargon. “You see, Drajak, if it was just those two villains on their own, why, the damage is dreadful but not anywhere near as awful as it will be if Shang-Li-Po and Yango are mixed up in it.”
“The queen has five Repositers,” I said. “There must be a great deal for her to learn as she grows up.”
He gave me a quick glance. He nodded. “So you have fallen under her spell? I am not surprised; I would have been surprised h
