shatir

Updated: July 20, 2025

There was nothing furtive about their address to the decrepit door, nor anything meek. Accordingly I couched the challenge in terms of unmistakable affront, repeating it at intervals until the leader of the new arrivals chose to identify himself. * Shatir, the man who runs before a personage's horse. "I am Hans von Quedlinburg!" he shouted. But I did not remember the name.

Talbot Mundy - The Eye of Zeitoon