After that, there were a few more details to be recorded by Si'Wren,
who paid diligent attention to whatever else Borla might see fit to
prompt her to enter into the record.
The Royal Advisors, wise men all, and known to Si'Wren to be wicked
beyond measure, conversed with their Emperor, occasionally directing
pointed questions to the trader concerning various particulars, while
she caused her ivory marking sticks to fairly fly over the smooth
glistening clay of her tablet.
Unbidden, she finally pulled out a third clay tablet for the record,
and none challenged her decision.
Listening anxiously to the story of Noah, the attitude of Emperor
Euphrates and his Royal Advisers gradually changed from frightened
alarm, to nervous mockery. By and by, the Royal Advisers became
unanimous in advising their concerned Emperor to disbelieve this weary
traveler's mad tale. Besides which, this so-called Prophet Noah didn't
even have true religion. A single god who could not be seen, and the
universal worship of idols spoken so openly against as a vile and
divinely forbidden practice? The very idea!
But Emperor Euphrates would not be placated. He was very much afraid of
the words of this prophet and his one Invisible God, this Patriarch
called Noah.
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