“Tell them that upon their mouths I place my foot, so!”⁠—she stamped upon the dais viciously⁠—“and that in their faces I spit!”⁠—and her action was hideously snakelike. “And say last to them, you handmaiden, that if you they dare send to Yolara again, she will feed you to the Shining One! Now⁠—go!”

The handmaiden’s face was white.