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"Have you no right to appeal to the governor yourself?" Laurence asked
"He is a dragon," Taruca said with even overnor of uess, and Taruca in soain
"What would I ask the governor? I have no complaint to make of Cuarla, to seek a different ayllu near-by, and I cannot live without any at all: I am blind, and I am too old Besides, I was first taken in Collasuyo, a different province and a long way fro man, chances are I would be snatched if I tried to walk the roads all that way alone
"Why did you take me, and why did you say you would take e? I am an old man to have my hopes raised so At least when I asked Cuarla, and he refused, I understood: it is not in the natural order of things that a little dragon with a sht: you have three e and full of young enerous But it see of the law"
Laurence was silenced; he could not dispute the justice of Taruca’s charge And if they had not meant to keep him a servant, that was little excuse; Iskierka had still taken him for their own selfish benefit; and Laurence had no confidence that Taruca would not face reprisal from his owner, however previously mild, now that he had been so vocal about his desire to be elsewhere
"Teovernor that intending no offense, we are sorry to have nevertheless given it; and that honor dee we can secure his liberty without further injuring relations between our nations, ill venture it, so long as Iskierka is willing"
"I retting having been quite so forceful about Iskierka’s responsibility, when Hualpa explained that she must be properly attired to enter the arena, and so women he called ether a golden neck-collar very like the one Hualpa wore, with the fringe splendidly woven of black wool "After all, we are all of one party"
"As she is the offender, she must face the trial," Hualpa said "Cohed "Yes, that is for you," he said, as theit retchedly undisguised greed; she did not need to advertise their nearly destitute state "And Laurence, the rest of usnificent than the hall itself: open to the sky and with two fountains at either end, and the dragon Iskierka was to fight at the other side, sunning hi silver scales tipped with green, and enor his lower jaw
"What dragon is that?" Granby asked, from Temeraire’s back, where he had climbed up with Laurence to be carried to the stands Teretfully recalled when that was Granby’s proper place, and none other; that now Forthing occupied that position was too distressful to conteh Temeraire had come very low in the world, from those first days
"His na consulted Hualpa, and settling himself upon one of the stepped platfor end of the court
"Copacati?" Granby said "The venoon yawned enorround in the reenish kind of ichor, which put up sht
Iskierka, who had co onto the other side--and in Te--looked up at theht: Granby, are you watching? Is your view all it ought to be? You ht turn a little, Temeraire, so Granby can better see eon, at least?" Granby said
"I am sure I would win, too," Teret, the battle would not have been brawling at all, but for an excellent cause, which Laurence approved
"I would, too," Kulingile said to Deon"
"Cui?" Hualpa said, gesturing, and so a cart laden with hot baskets of delicious-ss, skinned, stuffed with a sort of nutty bean, and roasted: and the baskets theht pick the at once Temeraire ate five for consolation
Granby, meanwhile, drank as many cups of the cloudy beer Laurence could hardly chide him under the circumstances: an interminable hile a crowd of spectators asse to see an entertain hi stories of his for by his end of the courtyard Iskierka dely provided; they gerated tenfold would have re Granby’s distress, Hualpa said so to Teh I would allow anything of the sort," Tenantly
"What now?" Granby said, dully; he was bent forward against Teood ar towards its zenith
"He says that you should not be afraid, because Manca has an excellent ayllu and will take you into it, if he should kill Iskierka But there is no need to worry: I have told hion should try to take you, I will fight hi said, and at the same time Hualpa sat up on his haunches and shook his head in evident signal The Copacati left off his conversation and turned to face Iskierka across the court, his feathered wings outspread with the tips brushing the ground
Iskierka followed hiswide her oings, the ht sun and the color flat in co scales "What effect do you suppose it may have, upon the beast’s prowess; the feathers, Iinterestedly, tone-deaf to the situation