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How do you get on with your father ‘ Beleth asked.’Very well ‘ Pyrgus answered loyally although it was far from the truth.’I ate mine ‘ Beleth told him. ‘He got old and feeble and useless but he wanted to hold on to power. So I took steps. Tasted disgusting – stringy tough smelly … you know how fathers are – but it’s the custom here. You’re supposed to absorb the essence that way. Rank superstition of course but well … tradition.
