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Peter stared though the spy hole and suffered further agonies The sirens had taken the Lord of Light into the banqueting hall and were showing hi herself invisible behind one of her screens and the girls got a treo and they scurried off leaving the Lord of Light to her e of the furies They finished off a victim after the sirens had exhausted him with their vile and lustful ways It looked as if the process had been short-circuited The good lord would be delivered to the furies right away

Mercifully, that didn't happen Instead of taking hi wheel That's what he and Crispin called the high table It here the guardians had their evening ethers like the full ravitational forces and the table ran around the riened to make them all equal There was no top to the table and no end Just a central hub ays on the spokes for the servants to use

The guardians arrived in their private pods and docked at the rim Servants and prisoners arrived in communal pods and docked at the central hub That here Dafne took the Lord of Light She left hiuards took him up onto the podiuation The hideous structure was mounted on top of the hub and could be rotated so that the prisoner was ator Most prisoners looked terrified when they were taken up there The Lord of Light showed no sign of fear

Instead of quivering and quaking, he flourished his yellow cloak and bowed deeply to the guardians as he was rotated before the every moment of it Peter remover his earphones and turned to Crispin

'I can't understand it '

'Youall that?'

'He looks like he's pleased to be there'

'Probably thinks he has been invited to dinner'