CHAPTER 37
Jiqlaraz began with a question that had been bothering Penrys. “How can this qahulajti impose a vision on these multitudes, day and night? I’m willing to grant the act itself, since our own chained bikrajti can clearly do it.” He waved a hand at Penrys. “But doesn’t she ever sleep?”
“Maybe she only does it while she’s awake,” Penrys said. “Maybe the rest of the time it’s what they called ‘the darkness.’ Their grassland illusions lasted without her, so why not the darkness, too? They may have fought against that blindness to escape, but perhaps everyone just got used to sleeping when she did.
“I noticed something else,” Khizuwi said. “Barshhubr’s complained about his head hurting before he fell. The qahulajti’s interest in Wishkazti… Several of Wishkazti’s relatives have been
