She knew that if Annon had been alive everything would be different. if in this primitive way they could extract the archdaemon woundlike a great viper around her spinal column. The thing shattered like aneggshell and she extracted the veradium point. With an inward shudder, he turnedhis attention back to the young regent.
Not for thefirst time she wished the Rappa were with her. A red-jade altar lay broken in two as if by asingle rageful blow. Othnam made a sign to the lymmnal, and it obediently released the interloper. He shook his head, advancing on her.
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