Chapter fifteen
Seg, Thelda, and I stand before Queen LilahOn the way across to the door I used my left hand to scoop up a great mass of the palines. Juice dribbled through my fingers.
“Here, Seg. Munch on these—”
“No time, Dray! Don’t you realize what they’re going to do to Thelda?”
I pushed the palines at him.
“Take them, Seg! You need them!”
I stared at him, eye to eye. With a savage curse he pushed past me, scooped up a mass of the palines and stuffed them into his mouth. Then, and only then, I ran for the door.
The guards had just reached the first turn in the corridor. We ran swiftly and silently down toward that corner. I checked at the bend beside an alabaster statue of a risslaca seizing a leem, and the leem in its turn seizing the risslaca, and peered around. Seg hopped wi
