Chapter 22Jayanta lay stretched out on the mat, sound asleep. She’d been with Ramona’s troops again to quell a riot but had returned here, as Rhya had requested. She hadn’t realized how tense she was until Rhya had started to give her a massage.
The candles had burned down several inches but the glow in the room was steady and warm. Rhya roused herself and stretched her own neck muscles. It had taken a long time to massage the anxiety out of Jayanta’s shoulders and back. She had had to mind-enter every muscle and mind-massage the molecules individually before they lost their rigidity and became supple again. It was a very long and arduous task. Before she completed it, Jayanta had been asleep.
Rhya had allowed herself to slip into a re-energizing meditation. Now she roused herself but co
