evatim?I think it was in a dream that the five-thousand-year-old boy-child Sekenre explained to me that all had worked out according to his plan, for he could see the future in a limited way, and sought to devour my brother and the Lady Eudochina Kias in the way I had seen, to make their magic his own. For all he had seemed to serve my brother and perhaps made some obscure bargain with him, for all the two of them had conversed many times in the darkness of the underworld, Armisdas would not have allowed Sekenre into his actual presence, but for me. Only for me were the gates of the death-castle opened, and if Sekenre entered at the same time, perhaps Armisdas had grown reckless, or he was too arrogant to care.
meI understood that the barefoot, untidy boy had been underestimated many time
