‘Wait,’ I said. ‘How could you be unconcerned when he was directly interfering in your Library’s doings there?’
‘I said he had disrupted Lokantor Krays’s project,’ said Hyarn gently. ‘Our leader he may have been, but it does not follow that the whole of Sulayn Phay slavishly followed his whims or even agreed with his ideas.’
I felt all my recent certainty slipping away, leaving me disoriented. ‘Oh…’
‘There was a flaw of some kind with the draykoni,’ Hyarn continued. ‘Galywis knew it, of course, as did our Lokantor. I do not believe Master Galywis ever managed to isolate the cause of the madness that sometimes took hold of his creations, though it was not for lack of trying. It broke Master Galywis’s heart to see it, and when he could not mend it, he concluded the project early.’ Hyarn s
