Chapter 28 - Malice
"Master Hovel!" cried a male voice Brandon had never heard before that both made him flinch in surprise and curiosity. But for a long moment all Brandon could see was a pair of nameless faces turned towards Hovel in adulation and rapt attention.
Finally the two figures disengaged from the outer grouping of white bodies...and with practiced graceful flicks of their wrists two very different looking people came before Hovel and bowed to their knees before him.
Eyes were down cast as though Hovel was the holy sun himself.
Hovel shared a critical eye over the two people at his feet and Brandon followed suit.
One of them was the male. He had dark black eyes. Not haunting and methodical like Jacobs eyes. No theses eyes were hard and very angry. Set deep into a round face
