when God delivers him into your hands this night� . How will you do it, Euan?”

“Take him, you mean?”

“Aye.”

“We lie south, just outside the fire-ring’s edge. Boyd watches them from the north. His signal to us begins the business. We leap straight for the altar and take Amochol at its very foot, the while Boyd’s heavy rifles deal death on every side, keeping the others busy while we are securing Amochol. Then we all start south for the army, God willing, and meet our own people on the high-ridge east of us.”

“But Yndaia!”

“That we will scour the instant we have Amochol.”

“You promise?”