You are Korong.

You may any day supplant him.

He would like to get rid of you, if he could see his way.

But till your time comes he dare not touch you." "When will my time come ?" Felix asked, with that dim apprehension of some horrible end coming over him yet again in all its vague weirdness.
The Shadow shook his head.

"That," he answered, "it is not lawful for me so much as to mention.