You are not easily turned from your purpose, and I like that spirit well.

But hear my counsel.

While you are in this city speak no Arabic and pretend to understand none.

Also drink nothing but water, which is good here, for the lord Sinan sets strange wines before his guests, that, if they pass the lips, produce visions and a kind of waking madness in which you might do deeds whereof you were afterwards ashamed.

Or you might swear oaths that would sit heavy on your souls, and yet could not be broken except at the cost of life." "Fear not," answered Wulf.