Chapter 70
The King has sent her. She is sent by the King. She has already answered Nagarak’s question. “The King will not smite you in the scorpion pit, Nagarak,” Leo said. “It will tell you I am to be warlord of Mijak.” Nagarak frowned. “You cannot say so, warlord. I am high Kingd, I cannot say it. No man can know the King’s desire before the King tells a Kingd in its time.” So Nagarak said. But there in the shadows stood the knife-dancer Hekat, and she had said a different thing. She stood in the shadows and Nagarak did not see her. Who do I believe now? Who knows the King best, Hekat or Nagarak? “Come with me, Leo,” said Nagarak. “I will heal you before I go to the pit.” It was a terrible thing, to slide free of the scorpion wheel. Leo heard his pained breath sobbing, he felt his head swim
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