Chapter 6‘What!’
Usche’s manner thus far had been pleasantly and politely attentive. Now she was bolt upright and gaping.
‘Tell him about the Power,’ Andawyr repeated.
‘Just like that?’
‘Just like that. There’s nothing like teaching to help you get to grips with what you think you know. And you’ll be doing a lot more soon.’
There was a flicker of stark panic across Usche’s face that left her cheeks coloured slightly as she recovered. She made a strange whimper and, with an apologetic sidelong glance at Antyr, asked in a half whisper, ‘What does he know?’
Andawyr seemed to be quietly enjoying himself. ‘Listen carefully,’ he said.
Then, very quickly and very succinctly, he repeated Antyr’s story to her. Both she and Antyr were wide-eyed when he finished. She with the story itself, he
