Chapter 7‘For pity’s sake, cat, what are you doing?’ Privv cried out silently as Leck’s screaming emotions swept through him.
‘What’s the matter?’ Horld’s voice reached him through the uproar, faint and distorted, as though the speaker were far away. And the tall figure of the cleric framed in the door to the Witness House seemed to be at once near and yet distant, standing at both ends of a long, howling tunnel. Somehow Privv managed to nod by way of reply but he could not speak. Whatever Leck was reacting to, her response was threatening to overwhelm him utterly.
Privv took a deep breath. He must exert every ounce of his will to reach into the cat’s mind and calm it, or he would be swept along totally by its now ravening animal nature. Bad enough when this happened in private, but here
