Chapter 11“Are you sure this is what you really want? A man of such loyalty is seldom found nowadays. If you serve me half as well as you served our late Francisco, you will become one of the most esteemed men here again.” said the Viceroy Luis de Velasco as he openly conversed with Castaneda. The two men had known each other well throughout the decades, allied primarily through their good common friend and some unusual adventures, but also through the burdening hardships which had followed in the later years.
A full week had passed since Coronado’s disappearance under the guise of the great fire. No one even suspected the possibility that the old conquistador had survived the might of such a bonfire. It took seventeen hours, dozens of servants and soldiers and a small lake to subdue the
