Chapter six
Dead Man’s LickGeya takes a deep breath, to keep her voice steady. The Numen has far more power than she, for now anyway, and Geya knows she cannot afford to antagonize the old woman too much. Nevertheless, she swears to herself that one day she will depose the Numen, and rise to take her place. Then the Amaranthine will rule, instead of skulking in the lesser pellicula, as they do now.
But she does not wish the Numen to know her plans, so she says sweetly, I have come to ask you of Dai, Numen. Has he come to you with any new scheme to defeat the Angellus?
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“Beautiful, isn’t she?”
Arkady jumped. He had not even heard his brother Jacq approaching — such was his astonishment at finding a portrait of Krikka in this unlikely place. He asked, a bit too casually, “Who is
