CHAPTER 21Meztli reached for the scroll and was about to say that she couldn't understand the conquistador's markings when she grinned. Dropping from the top of the scroll were vertical lines and dots of various sizes that represented knots. She couldn't run her fingers through them but could understand the ink message.
"Can you read it, Maiden Meztli?" the sergeant asked.
"I think so." She ran her fingers down the ink lines. There were of course, no bumps in the knots to feel but the different sizes and distances between the dots did make sense. She glanced up. "Do you know what the message says, Sergeant?"
"Yes. The capitán had this special scroll drawn up by a local Inca scholar. He said that if you understood it you might like to reply in a similar way."
Meztli grinned. "So it says
