Zaragoz by Brian Craig

Author:Brian Craig [Craig, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, General, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743443036
Google: Ym4JAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0743443039
Publisher: Games Workshop
Published: 2002-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

Brian Craig

tongue—I cannot tell what ways magicians may have of deceiving one another. But this I do know—that you are no friend of Marsilio diAvila, and must be reckoned to be leagued against him."

"Because I saved his loyal subject from a vile plot? If I have proved myself today the friend of Rodrigo Cordova, does that not make me a friend of Marsilio diAvila too? If it does not, I would like to hear the reason why."

"You are too clever for your own good, my friend," hissed Sceberra, "but your reckoning will come soon enough, now that I have you."

"I cannot see that you need me," said Orfeo, sourly. "Indeed, I cannot see why you are anxious, when you have the priest of Law safe and sound."

Even as he said the words, he realized their significance, and Sceberra could not keep his face straight enough to stop his prisoner seeing the truth.

"By all the gods," said Orfeo, "you do not have him safe and sound, do you? Despite that Semjaza knocked him down, he had strength and cunning enough to escape your clutches!"

"Aye," growled the minister. "He escaped from this prison last night—while Semjaza was questioning you. Had he and I not been so occupied, I do not think he could have got away—which makes me think that you served his cause, knowingly or not."

Orfeo held his tongue then, not wanting to tell the minister what other conjectures came into his mind. But he could not help but wonder whether Arcangelo had gone into the hollow mountain, and whether Semjaza might be afraid of what he might find and do there. And he could not help wondering, either, whether Semjaza might be anxious that his enemy would find the way within the crag which led to Rodrigo Codova's house—and whether that had been the reason that the Duke's men had been sent to take Rodrigo prisoner. At last, he thought, he had begun to see the pattern which this web of intrigue had.

But what good could it possibly do him now?

"Semjaza has such faith in himself," said the minister, "that he still believes you innocent. For myself, I do not care whether you are innocent or not. You have done what we warned you not to do, and now you must bear the consequence of that."

Sceberra's hand lay quietly on Orfeo's shoulder while he spoke, 106

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