"How can you say that?" Si'Wren said. Then she blurted out, "Have you
no sense of right and wrong?"
"I am as good a keeper of the law as any," said Habrunt.
"Aye, and you slew those two evil men, who would have taken me upon
their lusts, and cast me aside afterward as lifelessly as you have done
unto them instead."
"Because they struck you without cause," Habrunt replied. "And also,
lest they betray the truth of your broken vow of silence."
To Si'Wren, Habrunt's second remark seemed an astonishing thing to say.
"Then--" she hesitated in confusion, "you shall be as guilty as I! You
must not do this thing."
"It is already done. If not for my foolishness, you had not taken such
a vow in the first place."
"But--I did vow."
"Aye. Tell me this, little one; who shall speak of it when we return,
seeing how you have taken this vow of silence?"
"I--" This time, Si'Wren could not think of what to say, so perplexing
and marvelous were his words.
"Aye," Habrunt assented. "I am as guilty as you. But am I not
Slavemaster of the House of Rababull? My word is final. Not even Master
Rababull can overturn my decision, for behold, I have covered the sins
of yourself, that by my own guilt you may be counted innocent before
all.
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