Though Yayauhqui himself didn't look as though he had any intention of moving: he'd picked up ledgers from his merchant peers before leaving, and he was now sitting cross-legged with the papers spread in his lap, thoughtfully annotating them with a writing reed. It could have been an elaborate deception, but the most likely explanation was that it was all the truth, and that we'd been mistaken by picking him as the instigator of the plague. But, if not him, who else? As he had said, we did not lack Tlatelolca. Another of the former imperial family, with more military training, and a stronger will for revenge? Pochtic would know. We walked back to Pochtic's rooms, where Ichtaca had readied everything for the spell: my priests had brought back Pochtic's body from the temple, and laid it again in the position in which he had died: readying the teyolia – the spirit that travelled the world beyond – for being summoned.
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