Make whatever argument you wish. Ask as often as pleases you. I will not go if it means leaving you behind.” He could see the thought that came into her eyes then. See it and read it, as easily as words written on a page. “And you will not go,” he said dryly, “if it means leaving me. Hear Uyane Meoraq and mark him well, human: Sheul has given me your life and I do not give it back to you. I have been lenient with your freedoms until now. No longer. Do not test me. I’m not very nice either.”
