A miracle she hadn't noticed the damnable thing sooner!
"Let me see it!" Roya laughed.
"No time to stop paddling."
"But where did you get it?"
"Kosanna." Better he had stayed in the pit of Ophid!
Roya sensed something in Toka's quiet terseness, in the odd silence of
Rok and Old Ledo. "Toka, what does it mean?"
Only the swift thrusting of the paddles and the swush of the river
against the canoe's shell filled the next moments. Roya's patient
waiting for an answer was inescapable.
"It means," Toka replied quietly, "that I ... shall not be leaving
Kosanna."