Chapter twenty (11)

The day had gone fast; time had passed without pause, yet in the ancient ancestral land, the sun remained high in sky. Lady Steinhouse's neck told her that time had passed; as she felt it sore. She admitted that the games were fun to watch. The large round disk called a reflector; showing to those in the arena all that happened inside the pocket world's competition stage, was fun to watch, but she could not watch this infinitely. She felt that she had been sitting here for more than a day.

Protector Klienn occasionally touched her arm, sending waves of energy into her that relieved all the pain and energized, her every few hours. He touched her again to calm her when he saw her stretching her sore neck.