Chapter ten
The brothers Fre-Da give nikobiAs the three vollers touched down on the grass and then ghosted in under the trees out of chance sight from the air, I felt relief that we had carried it off successfully. Tyfar leaped down from his craft, leaving Nath to assist Barkindrar. Such is the way of unheeding princes. I was watching Tyfar.
A shadow moved under the trees and the moons’ glitter caught on the blade that pressed against his breast.
I started to leap down, dragging the thraxter free, when Tyfar said, “What? What? Oh — yes, I understand, Modo.”
The Pachak’s tail hand quivered and the blade vanished in shadow.
I came up with them, pretty sharpish, and Modo, seeing me, said, “Jak. A word from San Quienyin. He wishes you to call him Naghan and not to let these new people kno
