Chapter five
Concerning the phalanxThe day passed, as days do pass with work accomplished, but not enough — by Zair! never enough — to make me feel I’d earned my daily crust.
Truth to tell, with the Lord Farris and the Presidio we had set up perfectly capable of dealing with the problems of empire and the woes of Vallia, there was for me really only left the showy, emperor-type of function. Farris ran the place when I was not here, for which I gave thanks to Opaz, and I had no intention of making any attempt to usurp his functions.
When Drak at last threw out Vodun Alloran from the southwest and returned to Vondium in triumph, then Farris would gracefully retire from his position as Justicar Crebent and let Drak get on with it. Farris’s heart was with the Vallian Air Service.
So it was
