Scorpio Assassin: Dray Prescot #39 by Alan Burt Akers

Author:Alan Burt Akers [Akers, Alan Burt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, General, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Pulp, Planetary Romance
ISBN: 9781843196983
Google: fDB_H5lioB4C
Publisher: Mushroom eBooks
Published: 2008-02-01T09:00:03+00:00

Chapter twelve

Lunky took his duties as a Diviner with the utmost gravity. This was what one would expect both of him and of a Diviner. Together with the other two Diviners, they must now discover the queen in the body of a new born baby.

The funeral ceremonies, given the beliefs in reincarnation of these people, were lavish. Not one but two bundles of wood were used for the queen’s cremation fire, and the coffin, which was painted tastefully with scenes from Gilium, actually had a corner quite badly burned.

I, for one, did not miss the irony of the paintings of Gilium on a coffin containing a paol-ur-bliem, a person accursed, sentenced to return a hundred times to Kregen before being allowed into the heavenly paradise of Gilium.

Trylon Kuong, well-recovered, proved himself worthy of taking up a political position in the life of the city during this time. He was going to prove a most likely and useful person to have on our side in the struggles to come. For there was no doubt that the dikasters were split, in opinions and beliefs. Even more importantly, when it came to push of pike, they were bitterly and personally opposed to the extent of murder — as we had seen.

A new Repositer would have to be appointed for Kuong, to replace Caran. Kuong would have a considerable say in the selection and he spent a considerable amount of time interviewing candidates from the college’s training academy. The position was slightly complicated by the need for a Repositer to replace Hargon for the instruction of Leotes, and here continuity was not, of course, possible.

As for myself, I decided on a bold course in dealing with San Chandro. He’d seen me off into the secret passageways of the palace, and then I’d turned up in the retinue about Kuong and Lunky.

Mevancy went off with Lunky and Telsi and they would take up residence in the Mishuro villa. I went off to report to Chandro.

Because I had the entry permit I was able to see him, and he was more than anxious to see me. We met in the small room where we’d first played Jikaida, and the board lay on the table, set for a game. Chandro greeted me eagerly. There was no smile on his narrow face and he looked more gaunt than ever.

“So you see, Drajak.” He spread his arms. “Even the queen.”

I nodded, for clearly I couldn’t say: ‘May her soul rest in peace,’ for her soul was being reborn in an infant.

He gave me a sharp look. “And where have you been?”

So I played it, as I said, boldly.

I made an expansive gesture. “San, I do not understand much of what passes here in Makilorn. I know of the power of Tsung-Tan. All I have learned tells me the wizards are mighty in power.” I paused for effect, and went on in a hushed, heavy voice: “I can tell you only this. From being in the secret passageways I found myself in the desert.

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