Sin smiled at her enthusiasm.
"You are one of us now, and the inherent character of your Closed World brain will help overcome the Rebels all the sooner," she declared.
A nagging worry gnawed at Margaret's mind. "How about Victor?" she asked.
Sin's face became masklike and unreadable. "He has become Of the Faith too. He may amuse me—for a while. Something new, you know."
Margaret nodded. She dared not probe too deeply.
"Just remember that I am Sin, and that in Varda my word is law."
Margaret wondered whether the ruler was suspicious or had uttered the warning on general principles.
V
For several days Krasna was out most of the time, and when home she was usually exhausted. Eldon was aware he was sharing her dwelling on sufferance only, because she pitied his maimed body and abysmal ignorance of this strange world, so in consideration he repressed most of the insistent questions pushing at his lips.