It was all so glibly logical; yet I knew he was lying. I moved toward him, snatching the fringe of his cloak in my clenching fists. "I'm asking once again, Baiel: What did you expect to find here?"
"My Lord! My Lord!"
Baiel and I both whirled toward the open cabin door. Dayhan was outside, slowly crossing the last fifty feet of icy meadow toward the ship. When Baiel saw her, the smile sagged on his lips and he sprang from the ship.
"You're on tabooed ground!" he cried. "Go back!"
"I have no fear." Her words were brave, but her voice was a choked whisper as she looked up at the towering undulations of the glacier glaring in the sun. "Where my Lord can go, I will follow. Brother glacier is no god. See! I defy him." She raised my Hayden and aimed it unsteadily at the wall of ice above the Olympus.
"No!" Baiel screamed. "The sun god will destroy you!"
Baiel was ten paces ahead of me. He reached her as she fired. He knocked the Hayden from her hand with such force that Dayhan was thrown sprawling on the slick ground.
