how far he could go.
'
I need the key to that city.' Trok watched 8thstreet latina his face, happy with what he
saw there. He knew Ishtar almost as well as the magician knew him.
'It would have to be a key made of gold,' Ishtar mused. 'Perhaps three
lakhs of gold?'
Trok let out 8thstreet latina a great burst of laughter and aimed a blow at his head with
a mailed fist. It was 8thstreet latina not intended to do damage, and Ishtar ducked under it
easily.
'With three lakhs I could buy another army.' Trok shook his head and the
ribbons in his beard danced like a cloud 8thstreet latina of butterflies.
'Yonder, in the treasury of Sargon, lie a hundred lakhs. 8thstreet latina three 8thstreet latina from a
hundred is a small price to pay.'
'Give 8thstreet latina me the city, Ishtar. Give it to me 8thstreet latina within three full moons and you
shall have two lakhs of gold from the treasure of Sargon,' he promised.
'If I
give 8thstreet latina it to you before the next full moon?' Ishtar scrubbed his
hands together like a carpet trader.
Trok's grin slid from his face at the prospect, and he said seriously,
'Then you shall have your three lakhs, 8thstreet latina and a convoy of 8thstreet latina wagons to carry them
away.'
* * *
The army of the two pharaohs went into camp before the Blue Gate, and
Trok sent an emissary to Sargon to demand the immediate surrender of the
city-'to save such a prodigy of architecture from the flames, and your
person and family and populace from the sword', as Trok humorously phrased
his demand. In reply Sargon, sanguine and 8thstreet latina defiant behind his walls, 8thstreet latina sent
the messenger's decapitated head back 8thstreet latina to Trok. The preliminaries having
been dealt with, Trok and Naja made a circuit of the walls to allow the
Babylonians to view their full might and splendour.
They drove the golden 8thstreet latina chariots, Trok's drawn by 8thstreet latina six black 8thstreet latina stallions,
Naja's by six white. Heseret rode beside Naja, 8thstreet latina glittering with jewels and
wearing the golden uraeus on her high-piled curls. Behind the