The Paladin's Odyssey (The Windows Of Heaven) - Plot & Excerpts
He grumbled in the cell’s wet darkness, “For someone who took such trouble to get us here, Psydonu doesn’t seem in any hurry to see us!” “A sign of fear,” his father said. “Psydonu delays the inevitable.” “He may not think we’re such a priority now that he has us.” “I don’t think so. He wouldn’t have taken all this trouble without an overpowering curiosity and need. If his interest in us had been a whim, he could have more easily sent an inquisitor to Balimar by land rather than divert one of his largest capital ships away from the battle zone, unescorted, just to get us here. He also could have had us taken most of the way by land, which tells me he didn’t want us to be seen passing through any of Aztlan’s cities. The order came by oracle and must have screamed for haste.” “Then why wait now? What does he want?” A’Nu-Ahki answered, “An oracle; I mean in the old sense of the word—our endorsement maybe? Although the northeastern coast regions of this subcontinent are mostly descended from L’Mekku, the interior and the west coastal zones are red-skinned people like us—from the Middle Colonial Period of Seti’s Archonate.
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