(I am posting during a gap in gardening if anyone out there is interested in keeping up with the minutiae of Lancaster life. It is not all plays and Festivals.)
Four prisoners are allowed to meet and converse in comfort so that their captor, Tothapis, can gather intelligence by remote viewing and eavesdropping. We are familiar with three of the prisoners, Conan, Daris and Jehanan, and have read a reference to the fourth, Falco. Conan The Rebel is a multi-character narrative unlike any other instalments of the series, I believe.
Capturing Conan and taking him alive is an expensive business. He kills five and wounds nearly everyone else in a Stygian squad before they pummel him into unconsciousness. If there had been fewer of them, then he would have escaped as Manse Everard did in similar circumstances. Next, Nehekba will attempt his corruption.
Khemi is so haunted that Conan had to overcome his fear of the supernatural to enter it.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
IIRC, we see agents of SMERSH attempting a similar honey trap to ensnare James Bond in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.
Ad astra! Sean
With a lot of men, their brain turns off when a woman is involved.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Far too true! Hence we also get things like scheming femme fatales.
Ad astra! Sean
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