"You, Lakla--take you my message to the Silent Ones.

Say to them that I keep this man"-- she pointed to Larry--"because he is mine.

Say to them that I keep the yellow-haired one and him"-- she pointed to me--"because it pleases me.
"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.
"Not unforeseen by the three was this, Yolara," she replied.

"And did you speak as you have spoken then was I bidden to say this to you." Her voice deepened.