Chapter FourSaram was the first to speak after the Forgotten King’s abrupt departure. “What was that all about?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” Garth replied. His thoughts seemed muddy and vague and laced with a lingering annoyance.
“What happens now?” Frima asked.
The overman had been staring at the steps the old man had just ascended; at the sound of the girl’s voice he turned to face her.
“It would seem,” he said, “that you’re free now. As I told you, I have no use for you; I brought you here only because the old man told me to bring whatever I found on the altars, and you were on Sai’s altar. I thought that my taking him literally might convince him to be less cryptic in the future. It appears it hasn’t quite worked—but that’s not your concern. I delivered you to him, and he rejected yo
