Yazhk is a prize: she is one of the guards at the Whirling Devreesh Pleasure Palace in Zanth. They are legendary for their beauty, their severity, and their fighting prowess. Many a dandyish and drunk Certament, thinking he could win his way to the ladies within by force or stealth when his coin had run out, has met a sorry fate at the hands of the Devreesh-guard. Never before has one of them consented to so much as an on-the-record interview in her off hours, much less an appearance in our Gentleman’s Publication!
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I must admit that I do not know our representative from the far jungles of the south. Eerduz told me he had done some scouting of his own, and showed me his drawing of the four-armed beauty. As always, he was very mysterious and would not answer my inquiries as to how he came to have K’azu model for him.
