A wall he could see over Ierii’s head was beginning to crack and sway. Instinctively he pulled her out of reach of it if it should fall. But the tremor was already over, and the wall did not fall.
Ierii lifted her head and looked at him anxiously. He was frowning. At the back of his mind he was remembering the earth tremor and thinking that this would justify the Queen’s sacrifice of the Black Thunderer in the eyes of the people. It would be natural for them to sacrifice a bull to the Dark Lord of Destruction on the day the earth had shaken. But he was also thinking of his father and the mother that he knew, and the strange Lady on the mountain who claimed to be his mother
‘She said all sorts of things Thyloss. The hardest to understand — I mean after what she said about you — was that I
