Chapter Fifteen
They were in the office of Mistress Aldona. The triad was assembled there, called together in an emergency session to deal with a problem which had not come up in the twenty years of Domain’s existence. Master Lestrade sat in the middle, an aging lion with powerful shoulders and a grey mane. To his left sat Master Rayburn, a younger man whose bland expression and thick glasses made him look more like an accountant than co-ruler of a ruthless slave state. Mistress Aldona sat on the right.
Mistress Gyve and Kim sat in chairs against the wall on the other side of the room. Kim was dressed in borrowed clothing, feeling alien and uncomfortable against skin that had known only nakedness for so long. Someone had given her a wig to cover her bald pate, but it felt wrong on her, l
