Part of the Kotamayu series.

"Dead?" it tilted its headed to one side. "Deceased? Terminated? Destroyed and forgotten?" Its three eyes focused in on its holy messenger. "No, dear Jukuram; the one Kotamayu is not dead. And this one Amamarus dares say it was all a plan. An act? A facade? No, Kotamayu would not die so easily to his own minions."
Amamarus pranced in the shadows, his eyes dancing menacingly.
"Perhaps its this "Laef the Hero"? "Godslayer" now, they will call it. Fear will come to the ones Armada.
Was this Kotamayu's plan?"
Fingers tapped against his helmet, he began stroking his beak with deep thought.
"But halt, we must... This one Laef is already enemies of Kotamayu. Already he tries to communicate with the Armada kings directly..."

Amamarus sat in the darkness, talking to himself for weeks to come.