CHAPTER 6The room held a bed, a chair, a small table backed by a mirror, a cabinet in which could be stored clothes. The floor was bare boards covered with an apology of a carpet. The window was a minute square set with bars and masked by a curtain. There was a single lamp set in a holder beside the door. It was equipped with internal bolts and, outside, a strong hasp and hoop could hold a padlock of the occupier’s choice.
A prison in which Edallia fumed.
She strode five paces and reached the window. Turning five more carried her back to the door. A box five paces square with a ceiling eight feet from the floor. One of a row that formed the upper gallery of the lodging house Varl had chosen.
He had hired them all, setting guards at each end of the passage that ran beside them. Men who w
