FunctionaryThese are relevant references from the Books where a Functionary is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban Some of the men of Brundisium, several functionaries and soldiers, for example, and guards in the prison, were familiar with my identity. I whipped my head to the side. The blade moved past me and with a solid sound, followed by a sturdy vibration, lodged itself in the heavy wood of the door. "Excellent," said a voice. "You have had training." I looked down the room. At the end of the room, standing behind a functionary's desk, some forty feet away, there stood a soldier. Yet nothing had prepared me for the presence I felt in this room, a simple room, a bare room, with a large window behind, suitable for a minor functionary in the bureaucracy of Torcadino. "Slut," she said to me. "Yes, Mistress," I said. "Functionary," said the woman to the clerk. Too, he had seemed involved in various mysterious arrangements of which we pit slaves could make nothing, comings and goings, and conversations with various functionaries. "It is Marlenus," he said. "I see the purple cloak against the sand. There are guards, too, and some functionaries. "The man, the clerk, the official, the functionary, in blue-," I said. "The Scribe," he said. "-did not specify a given number of strokes," I said. This afternoon we had not entered Venna. The Masters' suspicions had been aroused by the party fraudulently representing itself as welcoming Vennan officials, proffering inexpensive, convenient quarters in the city. |
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