He slapped her hard, saying, “Don’t touch me. Never again. Do you understand?”
She angrily drew her sword. “How dare you strike me! I would kill anyone else who did that.”
He shrugged carelessly, saying, “Go ahead. What do I have to live for now? But before I die, I want to know one thing. What were the names of the two Firaithi men you captured and sent to Starruthe?”
Gwenn scratched her head, trying to remember.
Arkady stared at her, and she thought for the first time she could see hatred burning in his eyes. “You don’t even know, do you? Two human beings, condemned to a life of miserable slavery by you, and you cannot even recall their names. That is truly despicable.”
She snapped her fingers. “Now I remember! Huw Adaryi and Padarn... Somebody or other. We kept them alive to take c
