"Ah..." Leal suddenly said. "But in your tongue, it should be 'Darkness,' shouldn't it?"
At this self-interruption that broke the cadence he had adapted while relaying this oft-retold tale, some of his listeners took the opportunity to think on what they'd just heard—and on what it implied.
"I see..." said Captain Judda from a yard away, the first one to speak up. "So your scholars have painted Amalasuntha thusly. That is typical of Lyseans, don't you think?"
Leal frowned. Hilde did as well, but she understood where the Captain might be coming from, so her confusion had more to do with the nagging sense that he was being hypocritical, reacting this way.
"What do you mean?" the Prince asked him.
"Whatever else, she is always portrayed as a powerful woman," Captain Judda explained, his
