CHAPTER 7
Najud studied the Ellech party at their table, while they waited for Tun Jeju to resume the meeting. He’d wondered what Penrys’s sponsor was like, from her brief mentions of him.
The relationship struck him as mildly affectionate, more like a distant uncle than a father. Vylkar had found her, when she appeared more than three years ago, and steered her into a suitable occupation at the Collegium of Wizards at Tavnastok, but Najud didn’t sense any particular partnership between them. All the work she’d done on devices and research was on her own. Must’ve been lonely, surrounded by wizards, and not quite part of them, obscure and little regarded, except for the respect accorded to her power that had earned her the ancient title of “adept” before they left her to conduct her own e
