‘You’re going to ask Hyarn to let us into Dwinal’s chambers?’
‘Exactly.’
Gio gave me the wide-eyed stare of a sane man confined in close quarters with a madwoman. ‘You must be joking.’
‘No. I did say that matters are becoming somewhat urgent. Time to be bold.’
‘Is that bold, or crazy?’
‘Sometimes the two are indistinguishable.’
‘What about what you said before? What if it’s all a trick?’
‘The best way to find out how a trap works is to spring it.’
‘And be trapped.’
‘What choices do we have? Being careful and wise and tentative has only wasted a lot of time. While we were doing that, Rastivan and company were out enslaving sixteen draykoni. We need to stop this, immediately.’
Nothing Gio said could dissuade me, I am afraid. You might have noticed, I can be stubborn once I have set
