Chapter fiveEven as I tumbled head over heels through the blustering wind and the palpitating blueness I felt absolute frustrated fury.
I’d gambled and I’d lost.
Previously when the Star Lords sent me on a mission to rescue someone in pursuance of their own inscrutable plans, I’d known that I had to save that person, or persons, and stick with them until either they were safe or the Everoinye released me.
Delia and I had been sent to rescue Cuisar the Oblifex. We’d done that; but he still wasn’t safe as witness the pursuit of the Red Capes’ vollers. So, the natural ensuing thought was that we had to see him safe to where he wanted to go. The Prism of Power in Enderli, vital though it was, I’d gambled was second to saving Cuisar.
Now the damned great Blue Scorpion grasped me up and toss
