Chapter one
Concerns what followed an arrangement with the Star LordsYou don’t argue with the Star Lords. At least, if you make the attempt you’ll regret it and that may exclude your chance of living to regret it. All the same, I’ve hurled some hard words at the Star Lords from time to time, and as for their messenger and spy, the scarlet- and golden-feathered bird of prey, he and I, the Gdoinye and I, have indulged in a few scathing slanging matches.
There can’t be a winner from the ranks of mortal men, as I then believed, in any contest with the Star Lords, and I had learned caution.
The spangled stars of Kregen sparkled still in the night sky and the quietness of waiting in those moments before dawn cast an expectant hush over all the rolling world. Delia half-rose in the bed, leanin
