"I never once thought of you," replied Oceaxe, with an angry laugh.
"Do you really imagine that I carry your image with me wherever Igo?"
"If someone were to murder your lover here, what would you do?""Lying hypocrite!" Oceaxe spat out. "You never were in love with Crimtyphon. You always hated me, and now you think it an excellent opportunity to make it good .. . now that Crimtyphon's gone.... For we both know he would have made a footstool of you, if I had asked him. He worshiped me, but he laughed at you. He thought you ugly."Tydomin flashed a quick, gentle smile at Maskull. "Is it necessary for you to listen to all this?"Without question, and feeling it the right thing to do, he walked away out of earshot.
Tydomin approached Oceaxe. "Perhaps because my beauty fades and I'm no longer young, I needed him all the more."Oceaxe gave a kind of snarl. "Well, he's dead, and that's the. end of it.What are you going to do now, Tydomin?"The other woman smiled faintly and rather pathetically. "There's nothing left to do, except mourn the dead. You won't grudge me that last office?""Do you want to stay here?" demanded Oceaxe suspiciously.
"Yes, Oceaxe dear, I wish to be alone."
"Then what is to become of us?"
"I thought that you and your lover - what is his name?""Maskull."
"I thought that perhaps you two would go to Disscourn, and spend Blodsombre at my home."Oceaxe called out aloud to Maskull, "Will you come with me now to Disscourn?""If you wish," returned Maskull.