Oh! why does Umbelazi lean over your shoulder, Saduko, and look at me so strangely?
Farewell, Panda the Shadow.

Now let loose your slayers.

Oh! let them loose swiftly, lest they should be balked of my blood!" Panda lifted his hand and the executioners leapt forward, but ere ever they reached her, Mameena shivered, threw wide her arms and fell back--dead.

The poisonous drug she had taken worked well and swiftly.
Such was the end of Mameena, Child of Storm.
A deep silence followed, a silence of awe and wonderment, till suddenly it was broken by a sound of dreadful laughter.

It came from the lips of Zikali the Ancient, Zikali, the "Thing-that-should-never-have-been-born.".