Chapter twenty
In which Lon the Knees witnesses the true joyOn the day Queen Lushfymi gave orders to have the captain of her bodyguard killed the girls had resisted the murderers in defense of Leone Starhammer. Since then nearly all of them had signed up with the Empress Delia. So it was that when the Katakis landed from their airboat to assassinate the queen they were met by the guard detailed by the Prince Majister to watch over the queen.
The guards sent a messenger and then barricaded themselves in the villa. No thought crossed Queen Lush’s mind that this was divine retribution. She saw no connection between her perfectly logical and legal order and this inspired assassination attempt.
One of the guards said that the leader of this cut-throat bunch of Katakis was Stromich Ranjal Yas
