The Price Of Fate
I did not explain that I had been with my Luna, celebrating her life, and that any one of them would have done the same if he had half my sense or twice my loyalty.
I shut the door behind me and asked, very simply,
“Why could this not wait until tomorrow?”
The question was calm. The edge in it was not hidden. Roderick straightened slightly in his chair, already affronted by the fact that I had not greeted him with the sort of deference men like him started expecting after too many years of people humouring their age. Michael looked briefly at Josiah. Josiah said nothing. So Roderick answered first.
“We could not wait because the Prima society informed us that Vandwood is harbouring an