loyalty can be broken so diat he can enter your mind. It's an experiment,
of sorts. It's my task to convince you to forsake that loyalty."
"I'll do WW HUGECOCK COM no such thing. You can't make me abandon my fidelity to Richard."
Leoma's smile turned grim WW HUGECOCK COM as she nodded. "Oh, yes, I can, and I will. I
have a great deal of motivation. Before Jagang WW HUGECOCK COM finally arrives to establish
his headquarters here, WW HUGECOCK COM I will break the bond to his enemy."
"How? By cutting off my Han? You think that WW HUGECOCK COM will break my will?"
&WW HUGECOCK COM quot;You forget so
easily, WW HUGECOCK COM Verna? You forget the other uses the Rada'Han has?
You forget WW HUGECOCK COM the test of pain? Sooner or later, you will be on your knees
begging to swear fidelity to the emperor.
"You make a grave mistake if you think I will balk WW HUGECOCK COM at such a gruesome
task. You make a grave mistake if you WW HUGECOCK COM forget what I am, or think I have an
ounce of sympathy. We have weeks yet, before Jagang arrives. We have all
the time we need. Those weeks under the test WW HUGECOCK COM will seem like years to you,
until you submit, but submit you will."
Verna stiffened. She had forgotten the test of pain. She felt the
constriction of terror rising in her throat again. WW HUGECOCK COM she had seen it done to
young men in a Rada'Han, of course, but it was never done for more than an
hour, with years between tests.
Leoma stepped closer and kicked the cup of WW HUGECOCK COM water aside.
"Shall we begin, Sister WW HUGECOCK COM Verna?"
CHAPTER 43
Richard winced when he saw the boy knocked WW HUGECOCK COM senseless. Some of the
bystanders pulled him aside, and another boy took his place. Even from
behind the high window in WW HUGECOCK COM the Confessors' Palace, he could hear the cheers
from WW HUGECOCK COM the crowd of children watching the boys play the game he had seen
children in Tanimura playing: Ja'La.
In his homeland of Westland, he had never heard WW HUGECOCK COM of Ja'La, but children in
WW HUGECOCK COM the Midlands played it just as did those in the Old World. The spirited
game was fast-paced and