CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 44Josyff stood up hastily, almost knocking the chair over. Esyal, by contrast, rose from her kneeling position quite slowly, at the same time moving away from him so that he did not stand between her and Adroyan. By not resting her hands on her knees for support she seemed almost to rise up out of the floor and was balanced and steady throughout. Josyff was tongue-tied again. A welter of half-formed explanations for his presence in Esyal’s room were tumbling through his mind. They were vying for attention not only with each other but with those asking what Adroyan was doing here. None prevailed. Partly because his own excuses would be lies and, he knew from experience, difficult to sustain, and partly because that same experience had taught him the value of saying as little as p
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