Her mouth smiled in amusement as she walked across the room.
"No wonder. A man who can outrun three aircraft is quite a runner."
"From that began the tales about me. A hunter would shoot and miss. That started my invincibility legend. After many years, during which I found the Tower, they sent a delegation to me, to ask me to be their god, to take the ruby throne."
"How did you learn to speak, if you never knew other men and women?"
Tyr paused. Some of his education he had gotten from the books in the Tower. His other knowledge, and it was vast, he secured from eavesdropping in the narrow alleys of Yawarta.
But he said, "Oh, I just picked it up."
"The tower you mention. What is that?"
"An old building I broke into. It stands by itself on the Desert of the Whipping Wind."
"Can you read?"
"No," he lied.