A tap to his heel roused him from a deep sleep. For a moment, he realized he’d been dreaming of Fava, dreaming of her beside him on the bed, and he wanted only to hold that image in his mind.He opened his eyes. Chulata stood above him.“I need a body servant for the evening,” she said. “You will come service me.” The sorceress stood alone in the shadows without bodyguards. In her black robes she seemed almost an apparition hovering over him.“I don’t want to,” Tull answered.“You are a Thrall, and I am Blade Kin,” Chulata said. “If you no longer wish to use your genitals, I can have you relieved of them.”Tull looked up to the turrets, at the guards there. He had no choice.Chulata led him from the cage, up the dark corridors. He passed several cells filled with his townspeople, and at one point, his mother cried out to him, “Tull! Tull!”Tull stopped briefly, and in the cell he saw Chaa and Zhopila, among other townsmen from Smilodon Bay. It took a moment longer to spot his own mother.Chulata stood waiting.
