Chapter nineteen
The Whip and the ClawNyleen Gillois na Sagaie, Kovneva of Vindelka, torture mistress of untold numbers of men, would-be murderer of her husband, would-be wife and murderer of the emperor, had studied long and assiduously in the histories of Loh. With her lip caught up between her teeth, as a young girl in cold Evir, she had read of that mysterious continent of Loh and of the Queens of Pain.
To be a Queen of Pain of Loh!
She had never considered herself to be a cruel woman. She was merely the instrument chosen to redress the imbalance between the sexes. The witch Fiacola the Gaze had perhaps contributed more to her success than Nyleen cared to admit. But, in this coming confrontation, she saw more than mere revenge.
The satisfaction on her icy features reflected her inn
