CHAPTER 14After Giraldo and the others left, Tupac reconsidered his travel plans. He could not trust the conquistadors or the priests. He knew that if he showed either group the way to the pyramid the worst possible scenario would take place, the gold from the pyramid would be looted but the sacrifice on the following full moon would still be carried out The chances would be that Zolin, Urco, the maidens and children would be killed in the process. He grimaced for there was no guarantee that any of them had survived the plague. Of course if that had happened and there were still children there they would not survive for long if the adults had died.
He also knew that in spite of his will, his tired old body would find it difficult to reach the high sacrificial grounds and rescue the forty
