Rodrick Harlaw's shoulders sagged as he descended the steps, accompanied by jeering and insults. Asha scowled. With a broken arm and a crippled leg, she would be hard-pressed to get much to follow her, let alone to follow her in bending the knee to a Greenlander. A few of her captains and crew were lost in the storm. More left when she could not rise from the bed for a fortnight.