Before he could touch them, they were parted.

Out from between them slithered the black eunuch.

He stood motionless, regarding us; in the ink-black eyes a red flame of hatred.

I pushed myself between him and Drake.
"Where is your mistress, Yuruk ?" I asked.
"The goddess has gone," he replied sullenly.
"Gone ?" I said suspiciously, for certainly Norhala had not passed us.
"Where ?" "Who shall question the goddess ?" he asked.

"She comes and she goes as she pleases." I translated this for Drake.
"He's got to show me," he said.