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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9136449" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't think there is any drug addiction in The Scarlet Citadel. But Conan is helped by the sorcerer Pelias, whom he frees from prison and the predation of a hell-rooted, mind-sapping plant:&quot;But who are you?&quot; demanded Conan.

&quot;Men called me Pelias.&quot;

&quot;What!&quot; cried the king. &quot;Pelias the sorcerer, Tsotha-lanti's rival, who vanished from the earth ten years ago?&quot;

&quot;Not entirely from the earth,&quot; answered Pelias with a wry smile. &quot;Tsotha preferred to keep me alive, in shackles more grim than rusted iron. He pent me in here with this devil-flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot- writhing corruption that seethes on the floors of hell.&quot;Not necessarily the smoothest plot-weaving of all time! But it gets the job done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9136449, member: 42582"] I don't think there is any drug addiction in The Scarlet Citadel. But Conan is helped by the sorcerer Pelias, whom he frees from prison and the predation of a hell-rooted, mind-sapping plant: [indent]"But who are you?" demanded Conan. "Men called me Pelias." "What!" cried the king. "Pelias the sorcerer, Tsotha-lanti's rival, who vanished from the earth ten years ago?" "Not entirely from the earth," answered Pelias with a wry smile. "Tsotha preferred to keep me alive, in shackles more grim than rusted iron. He pent me in here with this devil-flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot- writhing corruption that seethes on the floors of hell."[/indent] Not necessarily the smoothest plot-weaving of all time! But it gets the job done. [/QUOTE]

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