finished.”
Maybe I did not know what the Star Lords wanted with the lady Yasuri. But I did know that, for me, the work I had had to do in Jikaida City was finished. There was nothing to keep me here now. Vallia called. If the Star Lords brought me back here, then I would have to think again. But the Witch of Loh, Ling-li-Lwingling, also, knew more than she allowed. This was all tied up together; but I had fought a fight, and, by Krun! I knew I had been in a fight. I lay back on the yellow pillows. My way home to Vallia still remained in Jikaida City.
As soon as I could move I would be off.
The Hamalese flier would speed me across the continent and take me home. Home to Delia.
“Let us praise Dromo the Benevolent,” said Konec. “We have won. It is all over now. The game is finished.”
As I drifted off to sleep I said to myself: “For you it may be finished. But the game is not finished for me, for plain Dray Prescot who happens to be the Emperor of Vallia.”
