Zelazny, Roger - Amber 05 The Courts of Chaos

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to the opened volume. There was a knock on the door.

"Go away!" I said.

"Corwin. It's me--Random. Open up, huh? I even brought lunch."

"Just a minute."

I got to my feet again, rounded the desk, crossed the room.

Random nodded

when I opened the door. He carried a tray, which he took to a

small table near

the desk.

"Plenty of food there," I said.

"I'm hungry, too."

"So do something about it."

He did. He carved. He passed me some meat on a slab of bread.

He poured

wine. We seated ourselves and ate.

"I know you are still mad..." he said, after a time. "Aren't you?"

"Well, maybe I am more used to it. I don't know. Still... Yes. It

was sort

of abrupt, wasn't it?"

"Abrupt?"

I took a large swallow of wine.

"It is just like the old days. Worse even. I had actually come to

like him

when he was playing at being Ganelon. Now that he is back in

control he is just

as peremptory as ever, he has given us a set of orders he has not

bothered to

explain and he has disappeared again."

"He said he would be in touch soon."

"I imagine he intended that last time, too."

"I'm not so sure."

"Yes. It worked."

"Corwin, could it be that you do not want him to have a plan that

might be

effective, that you do not want him to be right?"

"That is ridiculous. I want this mess cleared up as much as any

of us."

"Yes, but wouldn't you rather the answer came from another

quarter?"

"What are you getting at?"

"You do not want to trust him."

"I will admit that. I have not seen him--as himself--in a hell of a

long

time, and..."

He shook his head.

"That is not what I mean. You are angry that he is back, aren't

you? You

hoped that we had seen the last of him."

I looked away.

"There is that," I finally said. "But not for a vacant throne, or not

just

for it. It is him, Random. Him. That's all."

"I know," he said. "But you have to admit he suckered Brand,

which is not

an easy thing to do. He pulled a stunt I still do not understand,

getting you to

bring that arm back from Tir-na Nog'th, somehow getting me to

pass it along to

Benedict, seeing to it that Benedict was in the right place at the

proper

moment, so that everything worked and he got the Jewel back.

He is also still

I sighed.

"I guess you've put your finger on it," I said. "No sense in my

being

bitter. Still..."

"The attack order bothers you, doesn't it?"

"Yes, among other things. If we could wait longer, Benedict could

field a

greater force. Three days is not much time to get ready for

something like this.

Not when we are so uncertain about the enemy."

"But we may not be. He spoke in private with Benedict for a long

while."

"And that is the other thing. These separate orders. This

secrecy... He is

not trusting us any more than he has to."

Random chuckled. So did I.

"All right," I said. "Maybe I would not either. But three days to

launch a

war." I shook my head. "He had better know something we don't."

"I get the impression that it is more a peremptory strike than a

war."

"Only he did not bother to tell us what we are preempting."

Random shrugged, poured more wine.

"Perhaps he will say when he gets back. You did not get any

special orders,

did you?"

"Just to stand and wait. What about you?"

He shook his head.

"He said that when the time comes, I will know. At least with

Julian, he

told him to have his troops ready to move on a moment's notice."

"Oh? Aren't they staying in Arden?"

"The part that bothers me," he said. "After Dad had mounted and

waved a

good-bye, he looked back at me and said, 'And keep an eye on

Martin.' "

"That is all?"

"That is all. But he was laughing as he said it."

"Just natural suspicion at a newcomer, I guess."

"Then why the laugh?"

"I give up."

I cut a piece of cheese and ate it.

"Might not be a bad idea, though. It might not be suspicion.

Maybe he feels

Martin needs to be protected from something. Or both. Or

neither. You know how

he sometimes is."

Random stood.

"I had not thought through to the alternative. Come with me

now, huh?" he

said. "You have been up here all morning."

"All right."

I got to my feet, buckled on Grayswandir.

"Where is Martin, anyway?"

"I left him down on the first floor. He was talking with Gérard."

"He is in good hands, then. Is Gérard going to be staying here, or

will he

be returning to the fleet?"

"I do not know. He would not discuss his orders."

We left the room. We headed for the stairway.

On the way down, I heard some small commotion from below

and I quickened my

pace.

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