Chapter seventeenThe narrow door set in the re-entrant angle of the heavy walls gonged dully as I thumped it. They must have seen me walk up in the last of the radiance of the Suns. They kept a sharp lookout from the arrow slits. Nothing happened. Just as I lifted my fist to give the door another thump it opened. It did not creak. It swung open on well-oiled hinges. They needed to get in and out of here fast at times, I didn’t doubt.
A mass of hair sprouting around a bald pate confronted me in the light of a lantern held aloft in one raggedy arm. A mouth opened among the hair. I gave the doorkeeper no time to speak.
“Take me along to Kei-Wo the Dipensis right away, sunshine, or you’ll taste ol’ snake.”
“By the snaggle-teeth of old Snorribunder Himself, dom! Easy! Kei-Wo is expecting you
