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In those days the spine of the Company was a woman who never
formally joined, the witch Ky Sahra, wife of my predecessor as
Annalist, Murgen, the Standardbearer. Ky Sahra was a clever
woman with a will like sharp steel. Even Goblin and One-Eye
deferred to her. She would not be intimidated, not even by her
wicked old Uncle Doj. She feared the Protector, the Radisha and
the Greys no more than she feared a cabbage. The malice of evils
as great as the deadly cult of Deceivers, their messiah the
Daughter of Night and their goddess Kina, intimidated Sahra not at
all. She had looked into the heart of darkness.

Its secrets inspired in her no dread. Only one thing made Sahra
tremble.



Her mother, Ky Gota, was the incarnation of dissatisfaction and
complaint. Her lamentations and reproaches were of such amazing
potency that it seemed she must be an avatar of some cranky old
deity as yet undiscovered by man.



Nobody loves Ky Gota except One-Eye. And even he calls her the
Troll behind her back.



Sahra shuddered as her mother limped slowly through a room
gone suddenly silent. We were not in power now. We had to use
the same few rooms for everything. Only a short while ago this one
had been filled with loafers, some Company, most of them
employees of Banh Do Trang. We all stared at the old woman,
willing her to hurry. Willing her to overlook this opportunity to
socialize.



Old Do Trang, who was so feeble he was confined to a wheelchair,
rolled over to Ky Gota, evidently hoping a show of concern would
keep her moving.



Everyone always wanted Gota to go somewhere else.